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Pirate Party: Copyright reform poses no threat to GPL
Richard Stallman, the founder of Free software foundation Software Foundation voiced his opinion on Sunday 26th of July 2009, regarding Pirate Party's goal of making software free from copyright after a certain period of time. According to Stallman, harm would be caused by proprietary software utilizing code from free software, without the GPL affecting the program that is created by the result. In reality, the harm is directed to so few cases, that there is no sensible reason to write a special law based on these incidents.
In Finland, the pirate party is lobbying for limiting the copy right term from 5 to 10 years, a time, which in the software world is excruciatingly long. Few people use software from 10 years ago, and the use of 5 year old software is limited at best. Software, that is maintained actively, is updated between a few months or a few years. In these cases, the earlier versions do become free with age, but few software developers are interested in old versions instead of the new, fixed and improved ones.