On 12/18/06, Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> wrote:
In other words, it means that we are pushing a agenda that is no longer
neither a technical issue (it's clearly technically _worse_ to not be able
to do something) _nor_ a legal issue.
So tell me, what does the proposed blocking actually do?
It's "big prother, FSF style". And I say NO THANK YOU.
Linus
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Well, you can't really say it's "FSF-style", since the GPLv3 language
explicitly gives permission to circumvent any protection measures
implemented by a GPLv3 program. Even the FSF doesn't support using
the DMCA to support GPL restrictions.
scott
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