Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Apr 2003 16:46:22 -0400 | From | Timothy Miller <> | Subject | Re: Flame Linus to a crisp! |
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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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