On 21/10/2007, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
On 10/21/07, William Pietri william@scissor.com wrote:
Anthony wrote:
Of course what I meant is that actually forcing them to do so would
be
equivalent to robbery.
Well, I said they should be forced to make their work free content only if it can be done legally, which would make it quite distinct from robbery, which is illegal.
I find it interesting though that'd you'd equate enforcement of trademark law to robbery.
There is legal and there is right, and you shouldn't confuse the two.
I think I've been incredibly careful during this discussion in distinguishing between the two. In my opinion it's always right to force someone to release their work under a free license. Only some of the time it's legal, though.
Whoa.. that is in no way right. People shouldn't have to release something they spent time and effort on for free.