Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423025AbWBAX3V (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Feb 2006 18:29:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423026AbWBAX3V (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Feb 2006 18:29:21 -0500 Received: from opersys.com ([64.40.108.71]:61701 "EHLO www.opersys.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423025AbWBAX3V (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Feb 2006 18:29:21 -0500 Message-ID: <43E1479C.8050909@opersys.com> Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 18:43:24 -0500 From: Karim Yaghmour Reply-To: karim@opersys.com Organization: Opersys inc. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040805 Netscape/7.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, fr, fr-be, fr-ca, fr-fr MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Filip Brcic , Glauber de Oliveira Costa , Thomas Horsten , linux-kernel Subject: Re: GPL V3 and Linux - Dead Copyright Holders References: <43DE57C4.5010707@opersys.com> <5d6222a80601301143q3b527effq526482837e04ee5a@mail.gmail.com> <200601302301.04582.brcha@users.sourceforge.net> <43E0E282.1000908@opersys.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1397 Lines: 33 Linus Torvalds wrote: > If enough interesting content is licensed that way, DRM eventually becomes > marginalized. Yes, it takes decades, but that's really no different at all > from how the GPL works. The GPL has taken decades, and it hasn't > "marginalized" commercial proprietary software yet, but it's gotten to the > point where fewer people at least _worry_ about it. ... > The GPL already requires source code (ie non-protected content). So the > GPL already _does_ have an anti-DRM clause as far as the _software_ is > concerned. If you want to fight DRM on non-software fronts, you need to > create non-software content, and fight it _there_. > > I realize that programmers are bad at content creation. So many > programmers feel that they can't fight DRM that way. Tough. Spread the > word instead. Don't try to fight DRM the wrong way. Bullseye. It dawned on me after sending earlier emails that I should've mentioned the responsibility of content creators, but I'm glad I didn't, you've summed it up quite eloquently. Karim -- President / Opersys Inc. Embedded Linux Training and Expertise www.opersys.com / 1.866.677.4546 - 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/