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DRM is a bit of a red herring.

DRM is a bit of a red herring.

Posted Feb 12, 2007 17:47 UTC (Mon) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: DRM is a bit of a red herring. by sepreece
Parent article: Recommendation: no GPLv3 for Solaris

Ya.. that could be possible. As long as that propriatory bit of code being sent by Tivo isn't violating the GPL (which I assume is not violating it) when they sent it.

The GPL has absolutely no restrictions on the sort of stuff people do to it themselves, it never has and hopefully never will. If end users want to add propriatory code to impliment some sort of DRM then that would be valid and without conflict with GPLv3.

(although that sort of drm would be almost certainly be trivially easy to crack)


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