[License-discuss] Shortest copyleft licence

[Tim Makarios]

On Sat, 2015-04-04 at 06:47 -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> So, convenience, yay.  I wish you luck with that campaign.

Which campaign?  I thought we were having a discussion.

> >> I'm sorry, but _who_ exactly are you saying is advocating abolition of
> >> copyright?  And what colour is the sky in their vicinity?
> > 
> > Well, Karl Fogel [1, 2], for example, unless I've misunderstood him.
> 
> FWIW, seems to me, you very much have.   The nub of Karl's argument is
> typified by this paragraph near 0the end of the first cited piece:
> 
>   The proprietary stream cannot survive forever, in the face of such
>   competition. The abolition of copyright law is optional; the real force
>   here is creators freely choosing to release their works for unrestricted
>   copying, because it's in their interests to do so. At some point, it
>   will be obvious that all the interesting stuff is going on in the free
>   stream, and people will simply cease dipping into the proprietary one.
>   Copyright law may remain on the books formally, but it will fade away in
>   practice, atrophied from disuse.

That sounds like a statement about what might be likely to happen,
rather than what ought to happen.  From the second cited piece, starting
from the very first sentence:

> How bad is the current copyright system? Should we push for abolition,
> or just radical reform?
> 
> Both.

Sounds like he's advocating abolition to me.

Tim
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