I'll let rms answer the questions you directed to him. But I'd like to remind you that rms is not a member of the "open source community". Instead, he is part of the free software community/movement, which is something different, from the perspective of goals. The free software movement is concerned about users' freedom when using software, while the open source movement is much more focused on software quality and business interests around software.<br>
<br>You will probably be interested in reading this: <a href="http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/blog/2009/aug/18/rms-talks-pirate-party-uk/">http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/blog/2009/aug/18/rms-talks-pirate-party-uk/</a><br><br>
Felipe Sanches<br><a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/libredwg">http://www.gnu.org/software/libredwg</a><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 3:39 PM, Wesley Schwengle <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:wesley@schwengle.net">wesley@schwengle.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Hello all,<br>
<br>
my name is Wesley Schwengle and I'm member and a candidate of the Dutch<br>
pirateparty. As an active open source user I have been asked to involve<br>
the Dutch open source community in the discussion and to get their<br>
support. However, before I do this, I want to know what the opinion is,<br>
of Richard Stallman in particular, regarding the wish of reducing<br>
copyright to 5 years for commercial means. And also, do you know what<br>
others within the open source community have to say about this?<br>
<br>
IMO, reducing the length of copyright to 5 years will kill open source<br>
software as we know it, this also includes Creative commons licenses.<br>
<br>
People who wish to keep their work open by using an open source license<br>
or CC license cannot protect their work after 5 years from being using<br>
in closed source environment. One could take the Linux kernel source<br>
tree of 5 years ago, incorporate this in his product, without having to<br>
respect the GPL license. This could (and should) never be the goal of<br>
the pirateparty and the copyright reforms it proposes.<br>
<br>
<br>
Cheers,<br>
Wesley<br>
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