Re:Software licensing and my opposition to copyleft
by karmakaze on Friday October 30, 2020 @11:54AM
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There's a lot of comments about "ideas are not scarce". Here's the bit that mentions it.
> Ideologically, it's pretty simple: I don't believe that ideas can be meaningfully owned as property. That is, I see property as a means to non-violently resolve conflict over scarce resources. But ideas are not scarce, and thus, to me, they are not property and thus should not be treated as property. This is a fundamental assumption on which all intellectual property rests, and so, I reject it from first principles.
As I see it, there's some transitive logic being invalidly applied here. The post also says it's from a viewpoint of practicality. I consider the AGPL style licences are being used for practical goals.
> Ideologically, it's pretty simple: I don't believe that ideas can be meaningfully owned as property. That is, I see property as a means to non-violently resolve conflict over scarce resources. But ideas are not scarce, and thus, to me, they are not property and thus should not be treated as property. This is a fundamental assumption on which all intellectual property rests, and so, I reject it from first principles.
As I see it, there's some transitive logic being invalidly applied here. The post also says it's from a viewpoint of practicality. I consider the AGPL style licences are being used for practical goals.