While I don't pretend capability to parse beyond my adsorbed ken of the nuts & bolts of -?- veritably 'Distributing' the fruits of one's encoding labor / reaping some re-use benefits for/from all - -
From first hearing of GPL and countless epistles since, varying in each's al-punte memorable summations - I'd summarized it-all: that the Task taken-on by Stallman et al was of Herculean scale; that scale of:
stables/clean/river/divert.
As I understand the root of that task, it is an aim and an inescapable corollary ~~
1) How, practically to employ the pseudo-logic of The Law in so unassailable a manner (necessarily, then: punctilious a manner) as to *actually* == precisely-enough so as to:
Successfully temper innate and rampant Greed for the expropriation of the labors of Others, without Giving-Back er, >appropriately<.
(Alas too, all are parseable concepts, surely unfinishable in their implications, perpetually - as $applications grow like Topsy and as new decimal-point Levels-of-Greed are daily surpassed by Individuals: 'owning' the GNP of many countries combined).
2) Accomplish this aim of 'drum-tight legal phraseology' notwithstanding the massively disproportionate number of Lawyers owned by the huge collected Greed-Groups VS the miniscule Freedom-of-Knowledge Group.
[Actually that word should be 'withstanding', above. Or both-ways, in the World of Dualities.]
(Also - was not that insatiable personal-Greed the Way We Got Where We/US Are Today, in simplest terms? (however potentially Terminal-terms.. when history, social implications are someday reconsidered, of course.))
Is the above just too-simplistic to sanely describe the general rubric for all the execrable-but-inescapable Legal complexity as ensued (and will, indefinitely)?
Ashton