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

rich at annexia.org rich at annexia.org
Tue Dec 3 11:23:23 UTC 2002


On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 11:05:44AM +0000, 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?

I think his point was that in the 'Stallman Copyright New World Order'
the GPL wouldn't be necessary. The GPL is essentially a hack on current
copyright law.

Rich.

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