I don't 'cherish' copyright law. It has to be tolerated, as the law of the
land, but nobody says we have to *like* it. (Indeed the GPL license in
particular is an attempt to end-run around it by producing a pool of works
within which one can act as if copyright law did not exist beyond 'show me
the source'.)
Posted Apr 4, 2008 22:21 UTC (Fri) by nlucas (subscriber, #33793)
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Fair enough. My selection of the "cherish" word was a bad one.
My point is only that we actually depend on the law, or we couldn't force users to "show us
the code".