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To: davids@webmaster.com (David Schwartz)
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> Do you really want to argue that someone can add a digital rights management 
> system into a GPL'd product, distribute it, and nobody else can modify that 
> digital rights management system?

Thats not what I said.

The GPL protects your right to do certain things to a work. A digital rights
mechanism that does not prevent anything the GPL permits doesn't clash with
the GPL. In other words it can enforce the GPL, it cannot enforce anything
further. 

> =09You're out of your mind on this one. The GPL gives you the right=
>  to modify 

No you just aren't thinking about the larger picture
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