Freedom or Copyright? - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)

[Ben Finney]

On 08-Feb-2008, Carsten Agger wrote:
> If copyright is abolished, then there's no more GPL. What about 
> that?

That's fine. The GPL uses the term "copyleft" deliberately: its goal 
is to *give back* to recipients of works what copyright takes away.

In other words, if copyright truly did not exist, and everyone had the 
same freedoms (and more) in every work, not just those that have such 
freedoms explicitly granted by the GPL, then there would no longer 
need to be a GPL.

That would be a good day.

-- 
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Ben Finney <ben at benfinney.id.au>
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