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Friday, August 12, 2005

GPL Revision DRM - Not

Gavin Clarke's useful article in The Register describes the process the Free Software Foundation intends to use in revising the GNU General Public License.  Snippets:

Security will also be a focus, as Moglen [FSF general counsel Eben Moglen] said GPL would address what he called "computers users can't trust" or "trusted computing". He appeared to rule-out support for digital rights management (DRM) technologies, that are designed to assign rights of access to code and content to users using different criteria.

"It's not our goal... to separate the world into permanently free and permanently unfree parts... our goal is to use freedom to spread freedom," Moglen said.

Friday, August 12, 2005 in Copyright, Fair Use, Fair Dealing, Licensing, Policy and Legal, Rights Management |

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