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Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Gitlab and Gitorious (was Re: support me)
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Aaron Wolf |
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Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Gitlab and Gitorious (was Re: support me) |
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Sun, 08 Mar 2015 10:58:44 -0700 |
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I've been suggesting for a long time that the ideal vision we should at
least have rhetorically (not practically) is the abolition of copyright
and patent laws combined with mandatory source-release for published
works and prohibition of DRM.
On 03/08/2015 10:55 AM, James Dabgotra wrote:
> I think what was being suggested is copyleft encourages developers to forgo
> their "right" to put software under a proprietary license. But copyleft isn't
> mandatory. Besides, that "freedom" to put it under that license is the
> freedom
> to potentially exercise power over others. Vis-a-vis JS Mill, you should be
> free to do whatever you want if it does not hinder the well-being and freedom
> of others. But copyright is often meant to do that -- its you being free to
> exercise power over others. Given that, an argument can be made that making
> copyleft mandatory and outlawing proprietary software (paternalistically)
> could maximize freedom.
>
> On Sunday, March 08, 2015 12:01:30 AM Giuseppe Molica wrote:
>>> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]]
>>> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]]
>>> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
>>>
>>> Copyleft is not a restriction. It is a defense against restrictions
>>> imposed by middlemen on the users.
>>
>> I totally agree with Stallman. Copyleft is, actually, the best defense
>> that FREE users have.
>
- Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Gitlab and Gitorious (was Re: support me), (continued)
- Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Gitlab and Gitorious (was Re: support me), Yoni Rabkin, 2015/03/08
- Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Gitlab and Gitorious (was Re: support me), Richard Stallman, 2015/03/08
- Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Gitlab and Gitorious (was Re: support me), John Pozzi, 2015/03/08
- Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Gitlab and Gitorious (was Re: support me), John Pozzi, 2015/03/08
- Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Gitlab and Gitorious (was Re: support me), Giuseppe Molica, 2015/03/07
- Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Gitlab and Gitorious (was Re: support me), James Dabgotra, 2015/03/08
- Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Gitlab and Gitorious (was Re: support me),
Aaron Wolf <=
- Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Gitlab and Gitorious (was Re: support me), hellekin, 2015/03/08
- Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Gitlab and Gitorious (was Re: support me), Aaron Wolf, 2015/03/08
- Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Gitlab and Gitorious (was Re: support me), Aurélien DESBRIÈRES, 2015/03/08
- Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Gitlab and Gitorious (was Re: support me), Will Hill, 2015/03/08
- Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Gitlab and Gitorious (was Re: support me), Aaron Wolf, 2015/03/08
- Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Gitlab and Gitorious (was Re: support me), Will Hill, 2015/03/08
- Re: [libreplanet-discuss] Gitlab and Gitorious (was Re: support me), Miles Fidelman, 2015/03/08
Re: [libreplanet-discuss] support me, Aaron Wolf, 2015/03/06