Z:gnu-www-ja-copyright-versus-community-2000--45de3b-Functional works include: comp/en

Functional works include: computer software; recipes; textbooks; dictionaries and other reference works; anything that you use to get jobs done. For functional works I believe that people need very broad freedom, including the freedom to publish modified versions. So everything I am going to say tomorrow about computer software applies to other kinds of functional works in the same way. So, this criterion of free&hellip; because it necessary to have the freedom to publish a modified version this means we have to almost completely get rid of copyright but the free software movement is showing that the progress that society wants that is supposedly the justification for society having copyright can happen in other ways.