Universal human rights versus immorality of proprietary software

MJ Ray markj at cloaked.freeserve.co.uk
Thu Jun 5 08:31:28 UTC 2003


Wouter Vanden Hove <wouter.vanden.hove at pandora.be> wrote:
> How does this affect the FSF's viewpoint that writing proprietary
> software is immoral?

I suspect "not at all" is the answer.  A right to "protection of moral
interests" makes no claims about the morality of using protection laws
to reserve *all* rights. It just says that protection should be possible
for what are called "moral rights".

I hope that helps.
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