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DRMDRMPosted Mar 6, 2008 9:57 UTC (Thu) by rwmj (subscriber, #5474)Parent article: NDISwrapper dodges another bullet
It's a bit surprising no one's mentioned DRM in this discussion yet, because this is DRM. Just like DRM, it is technically ineffective. It's trivial to workaround this, particularly since it's free software. Like DRM it is legally dubious -- I have a perfect right under the GPL to combine closed software on my own laptop, just as I have the (moral) right to flash my DVD drive to remove region coding restrictions to play my purchased out-of-region DVDs. If people are distributing works derived from GPL code without source, then that's a matter for the courts, not for C macros on kernel symbols. Rich.
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