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DateThu, 24 Apr 2003 16:46:22 -0400
FromTimothy Miller <>
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..
>
> 
>
> 
>
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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