Torvolds on GPLv3

[Alphax]

Janet Hawtin wrote:
> Mark:
>> DRM is just crypto software.  You can jury-rig a completely functional
>> DRM system with PGP and a few shell scripts, which will allow you to
>> produce documents which only authorized people can read.  If you push
>> it into the kernel you can produce documents which authorized people
>> can only read on authorized operating systems.  If you push it into
>> the BIOS you can produce documents which authorized people on authorized
>> operating systems can only read on authorized PCs.  If you push it into
>> the video card's BIOS you can produce documents which authorized people
>> on authorized operating systems running on authorized PCs can only
>> read on authorized displays.
>>
>> There's nothing inherently evil about any of this.
> 
> Its the part where all of those technologies are able to deem people
> who develop tools which interact with them as felons that is evil. DRM
> comes bundled with DMCA so until you can extricate the two, DRM can
> not be a neutral technology.
> 

Exactly. It's similar to why rms denounces Creative Commons as "not part
of the Free Content movement" - most of their licenses (any NC or ND
combination, the "sampling" mess) are blatantly unfree.

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