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  • ArneBabArneBab@rollenspiel.social
    Oct 14, 2026, 7:53 PM

    @fogti the reason why copyleft is important is that there are technical means to make it neigh impossible to create derivative works.

    Abolishing copyright would therefore require to have a rule that every creation has to be accompanied with the preferred form to make modifications to it.

    @cwebber

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  • _Έλλεν Εμίλια Ά. Arson ζ.fogti@chaos.social
    Oct 14, 2026, 8:19 PM

    @ArneBab Calling a set of laws technical (in contrast to what it imo actually is: a social technology) when the only way it can be enacted (e.g. in contrast to cryptography) is through courts, seems absurd to me.

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  • _Έλλεν Εμίλια Ά. Arson ζ.fogti@chaos.social
    Oct 14, 2026, 8:37 PM

    @ArneBab Having source available is neither sufficient (although/especially lack of attribution makes it worse), nor necessary (due to the ability to disassemble code).

    And given that the "open source" is very often still based upon paywalled papers and standards, and often also hidden documentation (/ documentation licensed in a way that makes usage in source code difficult), I don't consider it sufficient anymore. It isn't sufficiently pervasive.

    Source code is an intermediate representation

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  • ArneBabArneBab@rollenspiel.social
    Oct 14, 2026, 8:39 PM

    @fogti I disagree.

    Having the source available may not be sufficient, but it is often necessary.

    Disassembling code does not recover comments and also misses a lot of other context.

    But I gave that argument in a more general way in the other toot:
    rollenspiel.social/@ArneBab/11

    Source code is the preferred form of making modifications to something – as the GPLv3 succinctly defines it.

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  • ArneBabArneBab@rollenspiel.social
    Oct 14, 2026, 8:28 PM

    @LunaDragofelis This is not about DRM. It is about only sharing obfuscated, compiled code that you may be able to mod, but not to improve efficiently.

    Or only sharing a squashed image while you yourself use the multilayer source instead that you did not share.

    Or only sharing the final encoded version of a song while you retain the multitrack master to rework it regularly.

    Or only sharing low-quality screenshots of a book you create from Emacs orgmode sources you keep private.
    @fogti @cwebber

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