From owner-freebsd-chat Tue May 22 22: 7: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72BCD37B42C for ; Tue, 22 May 2001 22:07:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA08298; Tue, 22 May 2001 23:06:25 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010522225545.050b1540@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 22:59:17 -0600 To: James Howard From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Copyright law, again... Cc: Rahul Siddharthan , Mike Meyer , chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <4.3.2.7.2.20010522120432.04599e20@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 08:35 PM 5/22/2001, James Howard wrote: >In the case of Napster and friends, I can see this, but I see no >justification for Stallman pushing others to stronger measures. Can you >clarify and support this? Stallman's "copyleft" is all about making copyright meaningless. ("Intellecual property is evil!" shouted Stallman during one conversation I had with him several years ago.) And he does appear to advocate the violation of copyrights -- other than those held by the FSF, of course. One of the better known instances is a document in which he says that "piracy" should be called "sharing information with your neighbor." --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message