Ownership in Software

Thu Apr 22 16:41:02 UTC 2004

On Thu, 2004-04-22 at 18:27, Axel Schulz wrote:

> The GPL is a very smart solution. It restricts also the "taker" of the license but it does something very good to society. But this software has an author. That is way I hold that Stallman is a little mistaken.
> 
> What do you think?

Never heard that stallman said software should not have authors (from
which derive authorship).

Can you show me where Stallman states that software should have no
authors please? Can you give me any pointer?

authorship != ownership, authors != owners

Simo.

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