Because its used to benefit megacorps in practice. This situation is just more proof of that.
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bookmeat@fedinsfw.app 7 months ago[deleted]
WalrusDragonOnABike@reddthat.com 7 months ago
everett@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
Copyright is what makes the GPL license enforceable.
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
The GPL license only exists because copyright fucked over the public contract that it promised to society: Copyrights are temporary and will be given back to public domain. Instead, shitheads like Mark Twain and Disney extended copyright to practically forever.
everett@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
I don’t understand your position here. If we went back to a more reasonable 7 or 14 year copyright term, how would that obviate the need for a license like the GPL, which permits instant use of code provided you share-alike? Those shorter copyright lengths would be pretty reasonable for books or movies, but would still suck for tech.
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
We would be faaaaaar less hostile towards copyrights if we had a regular source of RECENT public domain coming out every year.
I’m not saying that it would make GPL or OSS licenses useless. I’m just saying that the motivation and need for those licenses are because we don’t live in a society where freely available media and data are much more commonplace.
Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 7 months ago
Licenses only matter if you care about copyright. I’d much rather just appropriate whatever I want, whenever I want, for whatever I want. Copyright is capitalist nonsense and I just don’t respect notions of who “owns” what.
astro@leminal.space 7 months ago
It is offensive to me on a philosophical level to see that so many people feel that they should have control, in perpetuity, over who can see/read/experience/use something that they’ve put from their mind into the world. Doubly so when considering that their own knowledge and perspective is shaped by the works of those who came before. Software especially. It is sad that capitalism has so thoroughly warped the notion of what society should be that even self-proclaimed leftists can’t imagine a world where everything isn’t transactional in some way.
obelisk_complex@piefed.ca 7 months ago
Precisely this, yes, well said. We all stand on the shoulders of those who came before us, one way or another.
iamthetot@piefed.ca 7 months ago
Who is we? I wasn’t.
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Yeah people making that argument were dumb. Copyright needs to be fixed, not abolished.
wirelesswire@lemmy.zip 7 months ago
Sure, but these same companies will drag you to court and rake you over the coals if you infringe on their copyrights.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 7 months ago
More reason to destroy copyright.
Normal people can’t afford to fight the big companies who break theirs anyway. It’s only really a tool for big businesses to use against us.