Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 05, 2003 05:50 AM
However, there are a group of software developers in the United States, and other parts of the world, that do not believe in the approach to copyright protection mandated by Congress.
Wrong. The OSS developers that use the GPL license do believe in the approach to copyright protection mandated by Congress. The GPL is a license firmly based on existing copyright laws. The copyright law is used in the manner prescribed in the Constitution to protect the author's/inventor's rights to profit in the way they desire from their work. This profits come in the form of software contributions and improvements to their work fed back to them.
These contributions promote the progress of science in software at a much better rate than the old closed source software model that has stagnated advances in software development for the past twenty years.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 05, 2003 05:50 AMWrong. The OSS developers that use the GPL license do believe in the approach to copyright protection mandated by Congress. The GPL is a license firmly based on existing copyright laws. The copyright law is used in the manner prescribed in the Constitution to protect the author's/inventor's rights to profit in the way they desire from their work. This profits come in the form of software contributions and improvements to their work fed back to them.
These contributions promote the progress of science in software at a much better rate than the old closed source software model that has stagnated advances in software development for the past twenty years.
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