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[potatolicious]

So you oppose the GPL, Apache, and BSD licenses? Or really, any software license? After all, they are conditions for the distribution and derivation of a creative work.

You support private companies taking this freely-given resource, creating products from it, profiting from them, and not release the source as the conditions demand?

[Peaker → potatolicious]

Well, given that I oppose copyright, I support the GPL -- exactly because it uses copyright restrictions to neutralize copyright restrictions.

In other words, the only restrictions placed by the GPL are those that restrict use of copyright -- and I definitely support those.

Apache and BSD licenses are basically only anti-plagiarizing, afaik.

How would companies profit from a work that everyone can freely copy, in a way that does not add value to society and indeed to the original author?

[allait → potatolicious]

BSD, Apache and many other licenses allow exactly this: derived works may be released under proprietary license.