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In Finland, the pirate party The Finnish Pirate Party is lobbying for limiting the a copyright term from of 5 to 10 years, an excruciatingly long time in the software world. long. Few people use software from 10 years ago, and the use of 5 -year -old software is limited at best. Actively maintained software is updated fairly oftenreceives updates periodically in its lifetime. New versions are published and the copyright starts over for each of them. 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.
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Pirate Party: Copyright reform poses no threat to GPL
Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software Foundation, voiced his opinion on Sunday 26th of July 2009 regarding the aim of the Pirate Party's goal of making to make software copyrights copyright expire after a certain period of time. According to Stallman, harm it would be caused by particularly harmful that free code could be used in proprietary software utilizing code from free software, without the benefits of GPL affecting being transferred to the new program that is created by the result. In reality, the harm is directed this applies to so few cases that there is no sensible reason to write a special law based on these incidents.
"Richard Stallman has been an active member participated actively in the discussion board between mailing list of the international Pirate Parties, and he has presented good viewpoints. The question here is more about grasping onto details. Stallman supports many of the things The goals of the Pirate Party aims to change" - Pasi Palmulehto, The leader of Pirate Party Finland, Pasi Palmulehto
GPL is a license that which, instead of restrictions, aims to bring more freedom, instead of restrictions to the software industry. In his article, Stallman proposes forming of creating a code bank, from which source code would be released to public use after the copyright has expired. GPL is within compatible with many of the stances of The Pirate Party. However, although forming this kind of a warehousedatabase, maintaining it, monitoring it, and making sure that all source code is gathered to it, and released from it, and monitoring it isn't is not a realistic enough to be accomplishedobjective.
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