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    SubjectRe: Flame Linus to a crisp!


    Alan Cox wrote:

    >On Iau, 2003-04-24 at 16:37, Timothy Miller wrote:
    >
    >
    >>You are free to make a fork of the Linux tree for which DRM is NOT ok.
    >>
    >>Likewise, Linus is free to allow or disallow whatever he feels like in
    >>HIS tree.
    >>
    >>
    >
    >Actually no.
    >
    >Either its allowed by the GPL or its not. There are good reasons to
    >think that may ways of doing it are not (The GPL defines source
    >as including installation instructions). However thats a debate for
    >lawyers, and you can have the debate as long as you like but it doesn't
    >change what the GPL says..
    >
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    >
    >
    Certainly. But say the GPL allows it, and say Linus decides he wants
    it. There's nothing stopping someone else from forking it and deciding
    they'll never accept any DRM-related code into their fork.

    Now, here's something for the lawyers to try to do: determine that the
    GPL _requires_ DRM. :)


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