New GPL: Good Or No Good?
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on April 30, 2007 at 1:28:36 PM
I guess that many companies are not liking the new GPL due to the anti-DRM clauses in it. I say yay and others say nay. Boohoo.
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The FSF is strongly hostile to DRM. The first draft of the v3 revision expressed this philosophy directly: "This license intrinsically disfavors technical attempts to restrict users' freedom to copy, modify and share copyrighted works. Each of its provisions shall be interpreted in light of this specific declaration of the licensor's intent," and, while the words may have been toned down, the anti-DRM tune remains loud and clear. The FSF's position on DRM is not new. What is new is a fundamental change in the reach of the license terms that makes that hostility more of a threat.