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Sat Apr 21 09:49:19 EDT 2001
On Sat, Apr 21, 2001 at 08:01:04AM +0000, Brandon J. Van Every wrote:| practice, copyright protection means (1) having the force of the law on your| side, (2) making things difficult for people who want to break the law.How many books have you seen that _aren't_ copyrighted? How many(try to) make it difficult to break the law? How do you make itdifficult to plagerize a book?Sure, in software commercial companies try to make it difficult toviolate the copyright, but that is largely because it is easier thantrying to actually enforce the copyright.What it all comes down to is respect and honesty. An honest,respectful person won't copy, etc, the code/book/whatever when theysee the owner's/author's copyright and their wishes that it isn'tcopied. The dishonest people aren't going to care one way or theother. See the number of cracks for comercial software (mostly games)for an example. It is _really_ easy to take a CD and a license key(if the software requires one) and install it on several machines, butonly pay for 1 copy. If the machines aren't networked then there isno real software-only technical solution (from the licenser's POV)(the special keyboard adapters I've seen are an exception, but theyare hardware).The GPL and every other license exists to provide a legal basis forcommunicating and enforcing the author's wishes with regard to theircreation. Whether or not people respect the license is an entirelydifferent story, and totally unrelated to what the license actuallysays. (To play devil's advocate, though, if the license gives allownership rights to the user then it is really hard to violate thelicense, but this is unrealistic)licensing-discussions-in-an-imperfect-world-is-never-fun-ly y'rs -D
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