[Gllug] Richard Stallman at the LSE - 2nd December 2002

[David Damerell]

On Tuesday, 3 Dec 2002, Gordon Joly wrote:
>RMS outlined three types of works in his thoughts on copyright
>1) Teaching technical
>2) Artistic - novels
>3) Monographs - the thouhts of a single author
>He suggested that the copyright might expire in different timescales
>for each class. For the first, copyright expired immediately - no
>copyright. 
>I wanted to ask Stallman which class the GNU Public Licence (GPL) fall under?

1) - but, as he would have told you, the GPL is intended to preserve
freedoms in a world where copyright on code _does_ exist; it's using
the enemy's weapons against them.

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David Damerell <damerell at chiark.greenend.org.uk> flcl?

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