15 Feb
2013
15 Feb
'13
8:42 a.m.
On 15/02/13 14:58, Louigi Verona wrote:
I very much agree with your last couple of posts, except perhaps ...
Also, I have little regard for the sentiment that if I
give something away
for free, others have to do the same. It is their business what to do with
it and it is not my call to decide how others live their life, unless they
are invading my property.
I can of course suggest this to them, but I cannot dictate it to them.
You alluded to this earlier in the post by mentioning GPL and CC as efforts to
undo (or at least ameliorate some of the problems of) copyright laws ... for me
while current copyright laws remain enforceable I prefer to release stuff as GPL
so that I DO insist that redistributing that work involves an obligation to keep
it AND any improvements or adaptations to it, available to others.
Certainly I would prefer it if the copyright laws that permit some party to
adapt work which has been distributed freely and then claim some kind of
ownership of it to deny others access to it were thrown out. In this possible
and better world I would no longer feel the need to claim my dubious but
currently enforceable ownership in order to attach conditions to help keep the
work accessible to all. While the existing and deeply flawed legal situation
continues I do claim ownership and do make those restrictions, even while
arguing for changes to the law that would make those licenses, and others,
irrelevant.
Simon