Re: Flame Linus to a crisp!

Timothy Miller
2003-04-24T20:17:44Z

Alan Cox wrote:

>On Iau, 2003-04-24 at 16:37, Timothy Miller wrote:
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>>You are free to make a fork of the Linux tree for which DRM is NOT ok.
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>>Likewise, Linus is free to allow or disallow whatever he feels like in
>>HIS tree.
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>Actually no.
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>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..
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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. :)