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#53
Here's something about the Free Software Foundations stand on sharing:

The Free Software Foundation is concerned with the freedom to copy and change software; music is outside our scope. But there is a partial similarity in the ethical issues of copying software and copying recordings of music. [...]

No matter what sort of published information is being shared, we urge people to reject the assumption that some person or company has a natural right to prohibit sharing and dictate exactly how the public can use it.
On the other hand, here's an explanation of how the abolishment of copyright would hurt Free software.