Re: GNU Public Licences Revisited (again)

David Golden writes:

> The slavery example shows that what is considered property by the
> lawyers can change, anyway.

A bad example, I think, due to the implication that it was just a
matter of law that allowed and now prohibits slavery. The presumption
is that, all things being equal, the law could change back again.

I do not believe all things ARE equal. We realized that we were WRONG
about slavery and corrected that wrong. Actually, we always pretty
much knew it was wrong--the error was in trying to pretend that the
folks we stole from Africa were not really people, but some form of
two-legged, articulate cattle.

I VERY much doubt that the laws that have evolved to protect the
efforts of the author/musicial/programmer/architect will ever be
viewed as immoral.

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