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forwardslash  ·  4356 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Licensing in a post copyright world

Always interesting to see discussions around copyright when it comes to developers.

    People that license software under the BSD or MIT license probably would not mind that much if copyrights would be abolished or greatly restricted. Richard Stallman's world on the other hand would would fall apart. He even made a statement about how the Pirate Party will backfire on Free Software.

    The new generation has a new view on sharing and money as it stands. They want to make it easy to share content and software and also make it easy at the same time to enable independent monetization. This generation is the generation that goes on youtube and makes reinterpretations of other people's music, that create narrated play-throughs through interactive entertainment media like computer games, that provide lessons involved other people's content etc.

This is so true. I release mostly MIT licensed software and I wouldn't mind if copyrights were restricted or abolished. When I was first learning about licenses I was very idealistic about it but now I'm much more practical.