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

[Jay Scherrer <jay scherrer com>]

Open Source has been around for a lot longer then we realize. Maybe I'm wrong, 
but as I see it, Open Source is actually like an Open Book. We have been 
using text books for years to educate our students. However if one was to 
explicitly use material from a text book with out referring to the author or 
without his permission, this would be plagiarism. Just look where we would be 
today if all text books were encoded :-) 
  
On Wednesday 19 March 2003 06:18 am, JT Moree wrote:
> 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.
Thats what I'm talking about.
Jay