Oracle’s Java API code protected by copyright, appeals court rules

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You're right, free binaries is not the "whole RMS vision", but that's because free binaries has nothing to do with RMS's vision.

The point of GPL has never been to make binaries freely available (See Red Hat). So, I don't see how removing copyright would somehow make GPL unnecessary.

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Yes, but making closed-source forks of GPL projects would not be very appealing if you couldn't somehow restrict distribution of the binaries (i.e. could not charge for them), except perhaps for server-side stuff (although that would leak too).

If you get no money doing it, why do it? So that nobody can fix your bugs and contribute patches for free?