Re: Economics and the GPL

On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Joerg Mayer wrote:
[...]
> 5 Years is a very long time. Would you want to use a 5 year old gcc or linux
> desktop or linux kernel? I don't think so.

Maybe for software, and even so I believe it would be acceptable. But
for books, movies, music it seems quite short. It probably also depends
whether it is a book or a newspaper article. Maybe the copyright length
should not be the same in all domains, and maybe also tied somehow to
how much effort was put in the work. But that's opening a whole can of
worms.

And it's getting pretty off-topic for this list too (this is no longer
about Wine but about reinventing the world).


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