Z:gnu-www-ja-copyright-versus-community-2000--30ba03-Meanwhile for software, I susp/en

Meanwhile for software, I suspect that a three year copyright would be enough. You see if each version of the programme remains copyrighted for three years after its release well, unless the company is in real bad trouble they should have a new version before those three years are up and there will be a lot of people who will want to use the newer version, so if older versions are all becoming free software automatically, the company would still have a business with the newer version. Now this is a compromise as I see it, because it is a system in which not all software is free, but it might be an acceptable compromise, after all, if we had to wait three years in some cases for programs to become free&hellip; well, that's no disaster. To be using three years old software is not a disaster.