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Re:Crowdfunding Backer Patented My Project (2018) by sidpatil on Saturday July 31, 2021 @09:27AM (#28017943)
If there was no copyright, you wouldn't need copyleft.
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Re:Crowdfunding Backer Patented My Project (2018) by adwn on Sunday August 01, 2021 @08:31AM (#28025806)
Wrong: Copyleft ensures that the users of a given program can get access to its source code and release modified version of it, and that the users of that modified version have the same rights to access, modify, release it, and so on. Without copyright, there would be no way to enforce this preservation of user rights.
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Re:Crowdfunding Backer Patented My Project (2018) by sidpatil on Sunday August 01, 2021 @01:06PM (#28027887)
That's a good point; I didn't consider that.
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