(June 24, 2009 at 4:56 pm)Kyuuketsuki Wrote: Agreed but you're talking about software and in a community where the owners have decided to freely give their work up as is their right ... the fact is that our society is based on other principles and I would be willing to bet that most (if not all) of those people who support copyleft would not allow someone to drive off with their car or use their partner or (and you know I can think of hundreds of examples).Like I said before, I think you are simply confusing the concept of stealing with the concept of copyright (or indeed copyleft).
You can put a GNU license on something and still sell it. If someone steals your work, they have broken an ownership right (they have stolen). Someone can pay for the work and then modify it freely though. Concepts of ownership remain, so your hypothetical car problem wouldn't be one. All we are arguing is that if you buy something, you should have the right to modify it and distribute your work.
