[pp.int.general] Why Free Software misses the point

[Maxime Rouquet]

On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 12:12 AM, Edison Carter <
the.real.edison.carter at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 8:04 AM, Richard Stallman <rms at gnu.org> wrote:
> > CC-BY is a free noncopyleft license.
> > CC-BY-SA is a free copyleft license.
>
> and CC-BY-NC is a non-free licence.
>
> I'm not sure what the official Pirate position on this is though, since
> generally pirates support copyright as an 'industrial regulation'. What
> we're asking for is that all works effectively become CC-BY-NC as the
> least-permissive default. So why do Pirates favour Free software and not
> just settle for 'gratis' proprietary software? Or am I mistaken and most
> pirates don't really care about free software?
>

I am not sure CC-BY-NC could be the "default" rights/freedoms we want, but
surely we do not want the same freedom as in FS for everything else. And as
far as I know, that is not what free software people are asking.

To me a drawing, a music or a book are not like software. They are some form
of art, and therefore have something unique in them. It would be unfair to
make money by selling the writing or the music of another author without his
agreement, because it would never have been done that way if not by
(him/her)self.

This is not the case with software. It is more like mathematics, or science
in general. We sure must give the credits to the first people who bring it
to the community. But it would not be normal to prevent anyone to have
access to all, and use part or everything in future inventions.

If you see things that way, "gratis" proprietary software is not a good
answer.
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