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Okular, Debian, and copy restrictions

Okular, Debian, and copy restrictions

Posted Jun 2, 2009 6:32 UTC (Tue) by amit (guest, #1274)
In reply to: Okular, Debian, and copy restrictions by corbet
Parent article: Okular, Debian, and copy restrictions

> Should we extend cp to make it refuse to copy such files? I hope you would say "no." So there's a line to be drawn somewhere. How do we decide where that line is?

But that's not a direct analogy: No one's restricting you from viewing that pdf or distributing it. BTW password-protected pdfs encourage such 'for-your-eyes-only' behaviour. That should be cause for more concern as far as free speech is concerned.


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