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Neil Brown wrote: > But maybe I am just misinformed. Maybe there are dozens of different > manufacturers making devices that use DRM to prohibit freedom despite > using GPL code, and maybe there are hundreds of submarine patents > owned by distributors of GPL code and embodied in that code that the > owners are going to start suing us overs.... Is there a list of these > somewhere? At least for patents, lawyers scream bloody murder if a list of patents is posted. Once that is done, people can no longer claim ignorance of a patent. >> What is the stance of the developer team / kernel maintainers on DRM, > > While I cannot speak for other developers (and sometimes have trouble > speaking for myself), one stance I have often heard is that DRM is > simply a tool - one that is largely based on cryptography which is > just another tool. They can have good uses and bad uses just like the > TCP/IP stack (think 'spam'). So code to implement then would (if of > suitable quality) be allowed into the kernel. If you want to make DRM > illegal, speak to your member-of-parliament, not your code developers. This is a KEY POINT: There can be good DRM as well as bad DRM. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | |||||||||
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