[OS:N:] OS does not reject copyright WAS Open Source as a form of Anarcho-Communism?

[JT Moree <moreejt pcxperience com>]

It is being repeated in this thread that Open Source software REJECTS 
copyright.

Some Open Source software--in fact--depends on copyright to exist.  If 
copyright did not give ME ownership of MY code, I could not restrict YOU 
to keeping it Open/Free upon using it.

If all OS/Free software were to reject copyright, it would result in a 
BSD style movement.  There would be no GPL.

It may be more accurate to say OS rejects privatization of software to 
some extent.  But even that is not completely accurate.  I can take GPL 
programs and privately do whatever I want with them.  Only upon 
distributing binaries must I also distribute code.




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