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We also use copyright to partially deflect the danger of software patents. We cannot make our programs safe from them &mdash; no program is ever safe from software patents in a country which allows them &mdash; but at least we prevent them from being used to make the program effectively nonfree. The Swedish Pirate Party proposes to abolish software patents, and if that is done, this issue would go away. But until that is achieved, we must not lose our only defense for protection from patents.