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> If you have a better way to "disable" copyright than copyleft then I'm sure it would supersede the GPL.

In absence of copyright anyone could publish binaries build on GPL code without sharing the sources. So a central feature of the GPL would cease to be if copyright was in any way disabled. Saying the GPL is about disabling copyright is about as true as McDonalds being about healthy diets.



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