Re: Overreaching Copyright Claims (was Bullshit Copyright Legends)

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From: Dave Sill
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 1989 16:07

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In article <21060@usc.edu>, annala@neuro.usc.edu (A J Annala) writes:
> ... this is precisely my point ... people should be asked to "do the
> right thing" without the need to try to force them to do so by using
> federal intellectual property laws for a purpose for which they were
> never intended.  

Right.  We shouldn't *need* the GNU General Public License.  Nor
should copyright law be necessary.  Come to think of it, we shouldn't
*need* *any* laws.  People *should* always do the right thing.

But this isn't Utopia.  People do do the wrong thing.  We do need
laws, lawyers, and the GPL.

Dave Sill (dsill@relay.nswc.navy.mil)

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From: dsill@ark1.nswc.navy.mil (Dave Sill)
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Subject: Re: Overreaching Copyright Claims (was Bullshit Copyright Legends)
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