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From: "Dean McEwan" <dean_mcewan@linuxmail.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Flame Linus to a crisp! AKA DRM
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 10:44:12 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030430104412.11792.qmail@linuxmail.org> (raw)

On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Zack Gilburd wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Apr 2003 03:35:10 -0700 (PDT)
> Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org> wrote:

Oooh suprise.


> 
> > There is one fundamental problem, and nobody has addressed.
> > 
> > Who will enforce the GPL over DRM violations?

The copyright author if they so choose to do so.

> > Since it is a blanket over the entire kernel, and you have formally
> > (for the most part) have authorized DRM, thus one assumes you are the only
> > one who can pursue in a court of law.
> 
> Unless I am missing something, I was hoping for more of a sparse DRM \
> implementation; not a blanket. 
> I was hoping to be able to `modprobe drm` for when I needed to use DRM and likewise \
> `rmmod drm` for when I didn't want it.  Maybe I am a little late in this \
> disucssion, but that's just my hopes and whishes.


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