Making source available suddenly makes it free of copyright
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Naich@lemmings.world 3 months ago
The GPL relies on copyright law to keep software free.
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Naich@lemmings.world 3 months ago
No it doesn’t. The GPL provides a license to copy it as long as certain conditions are met. Availability has nothing to do with it.
dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 months ago
Okay but reverse engineering is no longer under any protection because no ip
bss03@infosec.pub 3 months ago
Yeah, we’d have to shift tactics. But, without IP law protections, the hacker community would double down on reverse engineering and binary patching. Debian etc. would still be available, but you’d also see spins on Adobe, Apple, Microsoft, and Google software based on decompiling, patching, and rebuilding, or just game genie / PC game cracks binary patching based on offset and signature.
The DMCA would dissolve and encysted data and the expected to be decrypted on the fly (“streaming only”) would just be published fully decrypted.
It would be a revolutionary shift, but I’m not convinced it would be worse.
What would be worse is keeping IP law, but only having it enforced by million dollar yearly budget teams of lawyers and not protecting creators of having their works fed to AI and regurgitated as slop.