On Mon, Dec 26, 2005 at 07:44:43PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > In any case, I don't think anything should stay in copyright for 50 years.
Well, I agree. I think it should go back to the original (if you're in the U.S.) of 14 years + 14 renewal. European copyrights are even more insane than ours. The U.S. copyright extensions in the recent past were supposedly to make us closer to European sensibilities, but really it was to protect Mickey Mouse. As long as Disney and the other corps are getting indefinite copyrights, I'm certainly not going to put my code in the public domain and give it to them for free, even if it has been 50 years (assuming I live that long). People in general, and certain corporations especially cry about the GPL a lot, but as it is written now, it accomplishes nearly everything I want as a software author. Since I like it as it is, I don't have much to gain by the "version 2 or later" clause. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
