Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263482AbTENSgb (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2003 14:36:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263483AbTENSgb (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2003 14:36:31 -0400 Received: from smtp.bitmover.com ([192.132.92.12]:5357 "EHLO smtp.bitmover.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263482AbTENSg2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2003 14:36:28 -0400 Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 11:48:56 -0700 From: Larry McVoy To: "Richard B. Johnson" Cc: Dean McEwan , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Digital Rights Management - An idea (limited lease, renting, expiration, verification) NON HARWARE BASED. Message-ID: <20030514184856.GA23593@work.bitmover.com> Mail-Followup-To: Larry McVoy , "Richard B. Johnson" , Dean McEwan , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20030514135256.26073.qmail@linuxmail.org> <20030514145811.GA14439@work.bitmover.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=0.5, required 4.5, DATE_IN_PAST_06_12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 782 Lines: 16 On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 11:22:57AM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > What did I say? I never implied that leasing software was illegal. > What I said was that software that expires after a certain time > has certain problems, the most basic of which is that a renter > who makes a good-faith effort to pay the rent, must be able to > retain ("enjoy") the use of the rented property. It's not property that you are renting, it is a right-to-use. -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/