On Jul 24, 2008, Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The GPLv3 is slanted against certain uses. You haven't provided any evidence of that, in spite of my request. So I'll go ahead and provide a rebuttal for both cases you alluded to with an ambiguous term that was used by GPLv3 opponents to attack it based on false premises and misunderstandings. 3. Protecting Users' Legal Rights From Anti-Circumvention Law. Nothing against implementing DRM and releasing it under the GPL, just against preventing users from enjoying freedoms #1 (adapting the software so that it does what you want) and #3 (improving the software and distributing your modifications) by means of threats or lawsuits involving anti-circumvention laws. 6. Conveying Non-Source Forms. The requirement on providing installation information along with user products containing GPLed software ensures users can enjoy freedom #1 (adapting the software so that it does what you want) and #0 (run the software for any purpose), without being blocked by artificial technical measures intended to stop them from running the software for different purposes, that require adaptation to suit the user's needs, on the product where it is included. Yeah, these two, together, counter the interests of DRM, but they don't prohibit anyone from implementing DRM, or from trying to come up with other means to impose DRM on users. To the best of our knowledge, they do make any implementation of DRM under GPLv3 too weak to be useful. Tough luck for DRM proponents. Too bad that they've been trying to do this by not respecting users' 4 essential software freedoms. Not respecting users' essential freedoms is evil, but taking away the freedoms of DRM proponents would be fair, but also evil. So the GPL doesn't take freedom away, it just neutralizes some of the power they depended on to make their technical measures effective. They still have the four freedoms respected, and GPLv3 doesn't conflict with any provision in the FSD or the OSD. In fact, I've been known to claim that Tivoization conflicts not only with the FSD, but also with the OSD, and for several reasons. Unfortunately, I never got an official response from OSI. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} FSFLA Board Member ¡Sé Libre! => http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
