GPLv3: New Software Licence and New Axiology of Intellectual Property Law

摘要

Richard Stallman's life has been strongly connected with the development of different methods of legal protection of computer software. He started his professional career as a computer hacker in June 1971, as he became a student at Harvard University, where he also took the post of a programmer at the AI Laboratory of MIT. In the early days of the software industry, the main idea of the hackers movement was to share the code they wrote. Later on, in the 1980s, this situation started to change, though. Software and hardware industries started to grow very rapidly, and new operating systems were bundled with new computers and hardware. To obtain a copy of a program and be able to work on these devices, every programmer had to sign a non-disclosure agreement.