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Friday, January 20, 2006

GPL3 and DRM -- 7:26 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Ars Technica takes a look at a draft version of the Gnu Public License (GPL) v3. It contains some very strong words forbidding Digital Rights Management (DRM) in an GPL v3 software. There are concerns about what would happen if Linux itself would go to the GPL v3. I think that question is moot. The kernel is licensed under GPL v2. Relicensing it would take the approval of every contributor ever to the kernel which would be practically impossible. I guess I once again lean with Linus Torvalds. I don't like DRM, but I don't want to make Linux nothing more than an ideological statement against DRM.

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