[pp.int.general] Open source and 5 years of copyright

[Alex]

5 years ago there was no such garbage as youtube, or twitter. ... no
google maps.
windowd xp x64 was a big thing 5 years ago... and Adobe Flash was
Macromedia Flash :-)

5 years is more than enough. 5 years, that's a LOT (in terms of both
human life and technology).
5 years, that's ~1826 days. i don't know if i'll be alive in 5 years.

anyway, that's not important. what's important is that long-term
copyrights are useless, anti-evolutionary and make no sense.

imho.

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 9:39 PM, Wesley Schwengle <wesley at schwengle.net> wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> my name is Wesley Schwengle and I'm member and a candidate of the Dutch
> pirateparty. As an active open source user I have been asked to involve
> the Dutch open source community in the discussion and to get their
> support. However, before I do this, I want to know what the opinion is,
> of Richard Stallman in particular, regarding the wish of reducing
> copyright to 5 years for commercial means. And also, do you know what
> others within the open source community have to say about this?
>
> IMO, reducing the length of copyright to 5 years will kill open source
> software as we know it, this also includes Creative commons licenses.
>
> People who wish to keep their work open by using an open source license
> or CC license cannot protect their work after 5 years from being using
> in closed source environment. One could take the Linux kernel source
> tree of 5 years ago, incorporate this in his product, without having to
> respect the GPL license. This could (and should) never be the goal of
> the pirateparty and the copyright reforms it proposes.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Wesley
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