On Thu, Jan 31, 2019 at 1:37 PM Bruce Perens wrote:
> In addition, I think there's a principle here. Extension of copyright is
> bad for Open Source, even if it helps us enforce our licenses more
> effectively. It will always work against us to a greater extent that it can
> be put to work for us
FYI, I am on record as agreeing with you on this point - I wrote about it
in my book in the context of feeling that some GPL advocates and the GPL
FAQ stretched the bounds of copyright too far - thus creating a negative
policy outcome even while trying to do something good for the GPL.
However, in
I think it's important to make a point about the extension of copyright. In
the case of Open Hardware, licenses are crafted which intend to copyright
not only schematics (which are functional things and thus not
copyrightable) but the *implementations of hardware from those schematics.*
This is an
