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Re: public domain question

From: Rob Myers <robmyers AT mac.com>
To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: public domain question
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 08:57:31 +0000

On 1 Feb 2005, at 21:05, Greg London wrote:

Free speech lets me create and distribute proprietary forks of someone
else's BSD code.

No, that's censorship. It is censorship of the immediate code and it is censorship of the ongoing conversation.

Copyleft isn't free as in free speech.
It is community-centric.

Is freedom of speech an individual right or a community responsibility?

Individuals are not allowed to make proprietary forks
of someone else's copyleft code.

And people aren't allowed to make proprietary forks of proprietary code. They aren't allowed to make copyleft forks of proprietary code either. So how is proprietary code more free, or better for freedom, than copyleft code? How does it result in programmers who have more rights, who are freer?

- Rob.

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