Free Software Rules Complicate Piracy Enforcement?
Here’s a short amusing article written by the licensing contact for the Mozilla Foundation. A UK Standards officer gets frustrated over the concept of copyleft and Free Software and the fact that is completely permissible to sell copies of free software (the basic gist of Free Software under a copyleft license is that you can take the software and do whatever you darn well please with it…as long as you make the source code freely available). The reasoning:
“…it makes it virtually impossible for us, from a practical point of view, to enforce UK anti-piracy legislation, as it is difficult for us to give general advice to businesses over what is/is not permitted.”