Plan 9 license

[Rod Dixon, J.D., LL.M.]

I agree that the term "piracy" has taken on an inappropriate connotation
when copyright owners use the term as if it meant theft. To be fair to Eric
Raymond, it looks as if his use of the term was not along this line.
Instead, he was, apparently, responding to the plaintiff's inaccurate
characterization that the open source movement supports copyright
infringement. In this respect, his use of the term makes sense and is
correct. (Merriam Webster's Dictionary:  piracy - "the unauthorized use of
another's production, invention, or conception esp. in infringement of a
copyright")

Rod Dixon
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
Rutgers University Law School - Camden
www.cyberspaces.org
rod at cyberspaces.org


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Stallman [mailto:rms at santafe.edu]
> Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 8:59 AM
> To: rod at cyberspaces.org
> Cc: cds at ghs.com; david at usermode.org; konold at suse.de; weigel at pitt.edu;
> license-discuss at opensource.org
> Subject: Re: Plan 9 license
>
>
> I am ashamed of Eric Raymond for using the term "piracy" to describe
> unauthorized copying.  That word is a propaganda term, designed to
> imply that unauthorized copying is the moral equivalent of attacking a
> ship.
>
>