Re: [libreplanet-discuss] suggestion/help. GPL enforcement.

[Aaron Wolf]

On 06/06/2016 12:42 PM, John Sullivan wrote:
> 
> Unfortunately that's not the case. It's true that the GPL uses the power
> of copyright against copyright, but it also uses copyright to protect
> users against non-copyright aggression, including EULAs and patents. If
> copyright went away first, we would have no GPL (in its current
> incarnation), and proprietary restrictions on software and its
> distribution could still be enforced using EULAs (contracts).
> 
> -john
> 

which is why the hypothetical copyright-abolition discussion needs to
follow up with: "…unless we also had laws banning restrictive EULAs and
DRM and mandating source release for published works" which is a much
more productive way to have this discourse than just stopping at "GPL
needs copyright"