@dublinux@mastodon.technology @toast The main argument for software copyright today is that the industry hinges upon it. GPL license allows you to escape that and create industries that deprecate the use of copyright, there is no better way to convince people. Otherwise no matter what law you change another (written or unwritten) will be abused and the same culture will be reinvented.
A permissive license is not a principal protest, it's a declaration of neutrality, you are basically saying that you are ok with the proprietary software culture. GPL is the closest you can get to a principal protest, without being completely ignorant of reality, and if you are ignorant by choice you shouldn't license at all. Encouraging people to use CC0 today is neither here nor there. It's living in hell and pretending it's heaven.