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

[Yves Quemener]

Mikko Särelä wrote:
> I agree. 
>
> As a side note, I believe copyright should only be available for 
> software that has been published with source code. If the purpose of 
> copyrights is, as with patents, to give incentives to produce things - 
> to enrich public domain, then no legal protection should be given to 
> closed source software. 
>   
An interesting and intriguing idea. But I am not sure about what you
propose. I see two interpretations :

- That copyright should not apply to binaries but that one could publish
source code, copyright it, and restrict the rights to copy and
distribute it without paying him (the only difference with today's
situation would be that we can see the source code but not reuse it)

- That non-free licenses should not be enforceable.

Which is it ?