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To: antiRepublicrat

The article manages to ramble on and on without addressing the issue that made this revision to the GPL necessary -- to close a loophole whereby DRM and special-rights laws associated with it could be used to restrict rights that are guaranteed under the GPL (e.g. a digital signature scheme could prevent modified software from running unless the software distributor provided the key needed to produce a new digital signature).


10 posted on 05/31/2006 7:39:37 AM PDT by steve-b (A desire not to butt into other people's business is eighty percent of all human wisdom)
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To: steve-b
The article manages to ramble on and on without addressing the issue that made this revision to the GPL necessary

That's not really the point, which is the FSF getting into moralistic activism on the subject.

11 posted on 05/31/2006 7:45:52 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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