Z:gnu-www-ja-moglen-harvard-speech-2004--234332-But I think you're correct to/en

But I think you're correct to say another thing, which is that if there were a number of self-defending commons raised on different principles around the world, that that would create undesirable dead weight lawsuits, which is why I spend a fair amount of time trying to help people see why the GPL is good and doesn't require to be turned into the XPL and the YPL and the ZPL around the world. In fact I think in the next few years, we're going to have a greater consolidation of licenses, not a greater multiplication of them. But it's a conceptual issue of importance, and it depends upon the belief that copyright law all by itself permits some things and not others, and that you can only fill those gaps with the kind of contract law that we try not to use.