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Pirate Party: Copyright reform poses no threat to GPL
Richard Stallman, the founder of Free 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 copyright term from 5 to 10 years, a an excruciatingly long 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 Actively maintained actively, software 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 grasping onto details. 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 that aims to bring more freedom, instead of restrictions to the software industry. In his article, Stallman proposes forming of a code bank, where from which source code would be released to public use after the copyright has expired, to the public use. GPL is within many of the stances within of The Pirate Party, although forming of this kind of a 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.
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