See the point about random companies selling it for profit. A patent license does not have to cost anything. Don’t know if AstraZeneca did give it away for free to poor countries which do happen to have the right kind of production capability under a “produce for yourself but don’t sell it” kind of deal, but it’s definitely a thing that you can do.
The patent itself isn’t evil, it’s all about how it’s used. And btw open source licenses rely on copyright law, especially anything GPL-like would not work without it.
See the point about random companies selling it for profit. A patent license does not have to cost anything. Don’t know if AstraZeneca did give it away for free to poor countries which do happen to have the right kind of production capability under a “produce for yourself but don’t sell it” kind of deal, but it’s definitely a thing that you can do.
The patent itself isn’t evil, it’s all about how it’s used. And btw open source licenses rely on copyright law, especially anything GPL-like would not work without it.