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Re: [Fsuk-manchester] RMS on Swedish Pirate Party vs Free Software
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Simon Ward |
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Re: [Fsuk-manchester] RMS on Swedish Pirate Party vs Free Software |
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Sun, 26 Jul 2009 18:00:50 +0100 |
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On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 05:37:06PM +0100, Paul Waring wrote:
> >When copyright expires I don’t believe free software and proprietary
> >software should be treated any differently: The software becomes free
> >for _everyone_, free or proprietary.
>
> Assuming of course that parts of the software aren't covered by
> other areas of intellectual property, such as patents or trademarks.
These were covered in the original article, but I don’t think there was
a solution. I asked some questions on patent protection in my original
response.
> Also, what happens if the source code is made available but not
> other components, such as images or database schemas?
Same as now, take for example when the Quake 3 engine was released, but
none of the rest of it. People created replacements, the engine was
still usable.
Simon
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