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  • From: Glenn Otis Brown <glenn AT creativecommons.org>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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  • Subject: Re: public domain question
  • Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 12:23:27 -0800


On Feb 1, 2005, at 10:29 AM, Greg London wrote:

See, you're all making it far too complicated.
Here is the simple logical argument in 4 easy steps.

(1) GPL asserts it is "free as in free speech, not free beer"
(2) Free speech allows individuals to create proprietary works.
(3) GNU-GPL does not allow proprietary works.

depends on what you mean by "proprietary." it certainly allows someone to own a copyright in some code, and to sell that code. that's certainly property, even if it is property that carries special freedoms and conditions. your lawn is no less "proprietary" for having a sidewalk (a public easement akin to a license) run through it.



therefore

(4) GNU-GPL is not free as in free speech.

Unless someone can point to a logical fallacy in one of
those four steps, the argument stands.

for reference, logical fallacies are listed here:
http://www.infidels.org/news/atheism/logic.html

Greg


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