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pessimizer
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The Missing 20th Century: How copyright protection...
Without copyright, there would be no need for the GPL.
JulianMorrison
on April 1, 2012
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GPL can do one thing that "without copyright" can't: protect derived works from becoming "trade secret" (unprotected, but published as binary only).
Still not worth it.
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