Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3

[david@lang.hm]

On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 21, 2007 at 10:51:06AM -0700, david@lang.hm wrote:
> > you snippede the bit about not knowing how to stop it
>
> I did?  As far as I can tell I quoted it all.  What did I miss?
>
> > they call the section the anti-tivoization, how much more explicit can
> > they get?
>
> They could be as explicit as:
> You can't use this code if you cooporate with anyone that requires
> DRM systems.

I think their earlier versions did say this.

> All their attempts to define user devices and such is just going to
> screw up and miss some things they wanted covered, and disallow things
> they didn't intend to disallow (assuming there is any such thing).
>
> > by the way, just in case anyone is misunderstanding me. I don't believe
> > for a moment that all these anti-tamper features actually work in the real
> > world (the PS3 hacking kits are proof of the lengths people will go to to
> > make the 'hard' hardware-level hacking trivial to do) but the approach
> > needs to be at secure modulo hardware tampering or software bugs.
>
> DRM is completely pointless.  It only stops casual end users from doing
> things.  It doesn't stop anyone with any technical clue from doing
> things.  I keep hoping one day the people in charge at the big media
> companies will understand this, and stop asking for people to implement
> it.  Of course in the mean time there are companies perfectly willing to
> claim to have unbreakable DRM for sale, while knowing full well (if they
> are competent) that it is a lie.  So as long as the people in charge at
> big media are clueless about technology, and as long as there are
> companies willing to lie to them for money, then we will probably
> continue to have DRM crap to deal with.

DRM does have some legitimate uses, for example redhat installations not 
installing unsigned software is a form of DRM

> I don't think the GPLv3 is the place to try to remove DRM.  What the FSF
> should be doing is try to educate the people who are advocating the use
> of DRM about the fact that it can't ever work.  You can make more and
> more stupid laws about how people can't remove the DRM, but people who
> break copyright obviously already are breaking the law, so what is the
> point in having more lows for them to break.  That is where this problem
> should be fought, not in the GPLv3.  The GPLv3 is never going to solve
> the problem, only educating people can do that.

this is exactly what most of the people who are arguing against this 
provision are saying.

David Lang
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