[pp.int.general] cultural flatrate: PP position?

[Christian]

Richard Stallman wrote:
>     I grant my respect for not freeing a work only for a very limited amount
>     of time. My idea would be, to enhance this time, the "freer" the work
>     would be spoken in terms of cc:
>     cc-by-nd-nc would be one year of copyright.
>     ...
>     cc-by would be six years of copyright.
> 
> I think 6 years is not long enough for the case of free copylefted
> free works.  Ten years is long enough, at least for software.

10 years would also be fine for me. If I remember correctly, the uppsala
declaration uses the term "one generation". Would be also sufficent for me.


>     After six years even closed source would be free.
> 
> If you mean proprietary programs whose source is secret, how would
> you achieve that?  The only way to make them free is to get the source
> code published.

Or allow reverse engineering. This is another fact, where the
governments can show their force: Simply refuse buying closed source
anymore.

Christian