I don’t understand your position here. If we went back to a more reasonable 7 or 14 year copyright term, how would that obviate the need for a license like the GPL, which permits instant use of code provided you share-alike? Those shorter copyright lengths would be pretty reasonable for books or movies, but would still suck for tech.

Copyright is what makes the GPL license enforceable.

I threw it on the ceiling

Nothing much, what’s going on with Jim Carrey with you?

I’d go a little further and say it’s proper funny now.

Thanks for explaining the joke.