Okular, Debian, and copy restrictions

Posted Jun 1, 2009 21:36 UTC (Mon) by drag (guest, #31333)
In reply to: Okular, Debian, and copy restrictions by danielpf
Parent article: Okular, Debian, and copy restrictions

Yeah. That makes sense to me.

I would not have a problem with programs that make people aware of licensing or other use issues with a file.

Like say you get a mp3 song that is distributed under a no-derivatives license or something like that. If you try to load the song up into a sound editing program I would not have issue with that sound editing program to notify the user that the author of that file has certain wishes on how the content of the file should be handled.

Same thing with P2P applications and stuff like that.

I wouldn't go out my way to impliment notifications and volentary restrictions, but it may still be useful. It would be a nice feature if applications tried to help users from accidently breaking laws or agreements.

Okular, Debian, and copy restrictions

Posted Jun 2, 2009 4:56 UTC (Tue) by jospoortvliet (guest, #33164) [Link] (3 responses)

Agreed. This feature isn't very useful for casual home usage, but for
companies it might even be mandatory. I know a company which would
appreciate the possibility of enforcing this company-wide for legal
reasons.

It is easy to turn of as home users (it's in the preferences: Obey DRM
limitations, has been there for 4 years) and provides value to corporate
customers. I don't see the issue...

I also don't understand why mr Corbet does not mention how easy it is to
turn it off.

Okular, Debian, and copy restrictions

Posted Jun 3, 2009 16:35 UTC (Wed) by jospoortvliet (guest, #33164) [Link] (1 responses)

can't edit the comment, so: I didn't notice Corbet mentioned the posibility of turning it off...

Okular, Debian, and copy restrictions

Posted Jul 1, 2009 3:10 UTC (Wed) by ggw (guest, #59386) [Link]

What have you been smoking Superstoned? Here is the last sentence of the
third paragraph.

"There is a configuration option which disables this behavior, but the
default setting is to enforce the copy restriction flag."

Okular, Debian, and copy restrictions

Posted Jun 5, 2009 7:44 UTC (Fri) by liljencrantz (guest, #28458) [Link]

This seems completely backwards to me. The very, very small number of organizations with specific reasons to limit their users freedom can update the system defaults to enforce these limitations, and let the other 99.9 % of humanity, including all sane corporations, to get on with their lives. Why on earth should the default value cater to a microscopic subgroup instead of the broad masses, when that subgroup can actually change the default for themselves?