Re: [ACPI] Re: ACPI mentioned on lwn.net/kernel

[David Weinehall <tao@acc.umu.se>]

On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 03:37:03AM +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
> > > (*) Aside from any potential copyright infringement on the tables 
> > > themselves. But, it is theoretically possible to override the DSDT with 
> > 
> > Criminal liability under the DMCA and five years in jail too, along with
> > having your SF account pulled and losing your ISP access at the first
> > suggestion of copyright issues - and since you posted that email you are
> > clearly not doing so by accident.
> 
> Fortunately he was citing a legitimate purpose: to workaround ACPI table
> bugs.  Perhaps some judges favour legitimacy while other ones favour
> corruption; choose your judges wisely :-)

I doubt that working around bugs is allowed either; one could argue that
both region-coding and CSS are bugs disabling me from seeing particular
DVD's and for sure that new CD-protection scheme is a bug, considering
the "CD":s they produce don't even qualify as such according to
Phillips(?)


Regards: David Weinehall
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