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From: | Quiliro Ordóñez |
Subject: | Re: [gNewSense-users] patents and copyright [was: live cd] |
Date: | Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:52:07 -0500 |
Did you mean to take this off-list?
By releasing it under non-free terms, refusing to provide source, etc.
On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 21:59 -0500, Quiliro Ordóñez wrote:
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>
> 2009/1/12 Ted Smith <address@hidden>
> On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 21:47 -0500, Quiliro Ordóñez wrote:
> > Sorry, correction
> >
> > No copyright, no need of the GPL. ;-)
> >
>
> If there's no copyright, we can't magically summon source from
> anywhere.
> We can just copy binaries without any persecution. In the
> meantime,
> software hoarders will take free source code and put shackles
> on it.
>
> ¿How?
>
The only thing they would be unable to do is prosecute us for copying
binaries. You can't get source from reverse-engineering.
>We wouldn't have source, and reverse engineering is not an equal to
> Without copyright, our movement would die. It's not secret
> that current
> copyright law is downright orwellian, but we still need
> something to
> keep things free.
>
> With no copyright, all software would be free or at least would be
> reverse engineerable.
that. ReactOS is a good example.
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