On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 17:41 -0500, Rob wrote: > On Mon February 20 2006 17:13, Lee Revell wrote: > > The point is, the developer of a piece of software has the > > right to release it under any license they choose. It's not > > OK to violate the license (whether open source or proprietary) > > just because you disagree with it. > > They have the legal right, thanks to a century of lobbying by > people who had too much money to begin with, but the idea that > they have the moral right is purely your opinion. Despite > making my living writing and oftentimes selling software, I > don't share that opinion. > I hope you understand that there could be no "free software" without copyright. If you like the GPL you have copyright law to thank. > > If you don't like it write your own app. > > I think that rather than writing my own music app from scratch, > I'll just keep encouraging people to embrace free software. > > So far this approach has gotten me and everyone else an operating > system and a few thousand applications to play with, despite 20 > years of hearing that exact same line from copyright zealots.... If I am a "copyright zealot" then so are the legal systems of the vast majority of countries in the world. Lee
