@lain @SuperDicq @hfaust It's also not *necessary* without copyright & patent laws enclosing knowledge and rotting out culture.

(There should be no legal protections on trade secrets. The only protection should be having adequate opsec. No opsec, sucks to be you. Not society's problem.)

Copyleft or rather the GPL (or some explicit notification of the four laws) becomes a statement of intent and social expectation absent copyright.

Then one can further go on to liberate code that hasn't been properly released.