Plan 9 license

[Richard Stallman]

    The image of pillaging bucanneers may be an unfortunate association,
    but it is metaphorically correct.

That copyright infringement is illegal is a fact, but "piracy" doesn't
just refer to that fact.  It makes a moral statement, and it is the
moral statement that I say "shame" to.

You are mixing a moral question with a legal one--in effect presuming
that law makes things right and wrong.  If law awards someone a
monopoly, you seem to say, then violating the monopoly is as bad as
being a thief or a pirate, and the law makes it "correct" to equate
them morally.

The law does not deserve that kind of moral authority.  If the law
prohibits sharing software, then shame on the law.