On March 23, 2013 at 7:02 AM Martin Owens <doctormo@...400...> wrote:
On Sat, 2013-03-23 at 05:39 -0400, Bric wrote:
Probably "derivation" (of the copyright law) would be a more accurate description for the GPL.
I was merely addressing the word "subset", trying to offer a more accurate descriptor than it.
If it were a law signed in by governments, but it's a license which requires the current copyright law to not change in functionality in order to work.
inkscape -- THEY COULD NOT prevent inkscape developers from implementing the same, subsequently?
They could not prevent the idea being spread from Illustrator to Inkscape, even if _they_ came up with it first. We are free to think and consider ideas of which-ever kind or origin we like without fear of persecution.
I hope you are right.
And this is right. We don't want ideas to have monopolies, ever.
EVER.
protected by GPL, which means, protected from being monopolized!!
Copyleft is the intentional monopoly for the Commons. The GPL provides a way for the commons (which should help everyone) to be the monopoly, it's clever, but it's sure as hell aint the public domain.
I'll have to study the distinctions among GPL, CopyLeft, and "Public Domain".