linux-kernel - Re: GPLv3 Position Statement

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Date:	Mon, 25 Sep 2006 15:46:37 -0400
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	Neil Brown <neilb@...e.de>
CC:	Michiel de Boer <x@...elhomicide.demon.nl>,
	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...elEye.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: GPLv3 Position Statement

Neil Brown wrote:
> But maybe I am just misinformed.  Maybe there are dozens of different
> manufacturers making devices that use DRM to prohibit freedom despite
> using GPL code, and maybe there are hundreds of submarine patents
> owned by distributors of GPL code and embodied in that code that the
> owners are going to start suing us overs.... Is there a list of these
> somewhere?

At least for patents, lawyers scream bloody murder if a list of patents 
is posted.  Once that is done, people can no longer claim ignorance of a 
patent.


>> What is the stance of the developer team / kernel maintainers on DRM,
> 
> While I cannot speak for other developers (and sometimes have trouble
> speaking for myself), one stance I have often heard is that DRM is
> simply a tool - one that is largely based on cryptography which is
> just another tool.  They can have good uses and bad uses just like the
> TCP/IP stack (think 'spam').  So code to implement then would (if of
> suitable quality) be allowed into the kernel.  If you want to make DRM
> illegal, speak to your member-of-parliament, not your code developers.

This is a KEY POINT: There can be good DRM as well as bad DRM.

	Jeff


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