[pp.int.general] Subject: Re: International Pirates Day

[Reinier Bakels]

> FOSS and Wikipedia are proof
> that copyright is not a necessary incentive to create complex
> informational works.

FOSS depends on copyright to a large extent! The fact that the programmer 
does not use his copyright (which he gets by law, whether he lieks it or 
not) for commercial exploitatioon, but to decide under what conditions other 
are allowed to use the software he wrote. It is the basis for the GNU 
licences, etc. GNU does not involve money, buit it does involve obligations! 
Such licences can not be created without a legislator-created copyright!

reinier