[pp.int.general] 3-step usage rights / forced licensing model

[Eduardo Robles Elvira]

2009/11/3 Félix Robles <redeadlink at gmail.com>:
> I want to ask something: Should all software be, by law, free software?  Or
> should authors at least release the code after a certain period of time and
> allow everyone to distribute and modify it?

If you say because of:

Pasi said:
> also presents other solutions such as all closed software should be
> released with source code after the copyright time expires etc. that
> can be discussed.

He didn't say that all software must be free software by law, and I
don't think no one wants to enforce such a thing.  What's being
proposed is that everyone shares the source after copyright ends, so
that someone else can continue the development. This can be really
problematic, because after copyright ends maybe no one might have
access to the source, it might have been lost. If for that matter we
require everyone to submit the source code of its code so that it can
be later on released, its even more problematic (people will be
reticent of sending their unreleased source code, obviously)

Regards,
  Eduardo Robles Elvira (Spain, Partido Pirata)