FSF's position on shorter copyrights (was Re: Economics and the GPL)

"Deven T. Corzine" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> On Tue, 18 Jun 2002, Roger Fujii wrote:

Actually, I wrote the following:

> > > *For example, see http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/eldred-amicus.html,
> > > http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/copyright-and-globalization.html

Roger Fujii then wrote:
> > 
> > It's unclear that they *truely* would support such a move, as a relatively
> > short copyright would undermine the GPL.  

And then Deven T. Corzine wrote:
>  (Now, whether or not 
> the FSF would actually prefer shorter copyrights, that's another question.)

Is there any reason to suspect the FSF is lying, other than our speculation
regarding how shorter copyright would reduce the ability of the GPL to keep
code out of closed-source software?


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Sincerely,
Matt Seitz

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