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• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If copyright didn’t exist then everything would be in the public domain and the GPL would be toothless, but that’s fine because it would no longer be unnecessary.

  I’m saying it is necessary to achieve the aims of the GPL.

  If it was just about ensuring the source is free, the MIT license would be sufficient. The GPL goes further and forces modifications to also be free, which relies on copyright.

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  • uis@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m saying it is necessary to achieve the aims of the GPL.

    Which would make GPL toothless, but that’s fine because it would no longer be unnecessary.

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  • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’m saying it is necessary to achieve the aims of the GPL.

    Until copyright no longer exists and everything is in the public domain, as I said.

    How are you going to enforce the GPL in a world where copyright doesn’t exist?

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      How are you going to enforce the GPL in a world where copyright doesn’t exist?

      And that’s what I’m saying, you can’t, therefore the aims of the GPL cannot be achieved. The GPL was created specifically to force modifications to be shared. The MIT license was created to be as close to public domain as possible, but within a copyright context (the only obligation is to retain the license text on source distributions).

      If everything is public domain, then there would be no functional changes to MIT-licensed code, whereas GPL-licensed code would become a free-for-all with companies no longer being obligated to share their changes.

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