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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 fairly often. 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.
"Richard Stallman has been an active member in the discussion board between the international Pirate Parties, and he has presented good viewpoints. The question here is more about the lack of grasping onto details, as . Stallman supports many of the things The Pirate Party aims to change" - The leader of Pirate Party Finland, Pasi Palmulehto
GPL is a license, which aims to bring more freedom, instead of restrictions to the software industry. In his article, Stallman proposes forming of a code bank, where from source code would be released after the copyright has expired, to the public use. GPL is within many of the stances within The Pirate Party, although forming of this kind of warehouse, maintaining it, and making sure that all source code is gathered to it, and released from it, and monitoring it isn't realistic enough to be accomplished.