From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750817AbWA1Ljg (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jan 2006 06:39:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751226AbWA1Ljg (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jan 2006 06:39:36 -0500 Received: from ns.firmix.at ([62.141.48.66]:44933 "EHLO ns.firmix.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750817AbWA1Ljf (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Jan 2006 06:39:35 -0500 Subject: Re: GPL V3 and Linux From: Bernd Petrovitsch To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: Ian Kester-Haney , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <200601271751.k0RHp4AA021082@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> References: <43D65211.20006@wolfmountaingroup.com> <441e43c90601241721o8b4a9e5rd3a237f70aa46dbb@mail.gmail.com> <1138182144.4800.12.camel@tara.firmix.at> <200601270310.k0R3AIrf014656@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <1138355647.12605.21.camel@tara.firmix.at> <200601271751.k0RHp4AA021082@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: http://www.firmix.at/ Date: Sat, 28 Jan 2006 12:38:07 +0100 Message-Id: <1138448288.4205.3.camel@gimli.at.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 12:51 -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 10:54:07 +0100, Bernd Petrovitsch said: > > On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 22:10 -0500, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > > > > 17 USC 1201(a)(1)(A) says: > > > > > > (A) No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively > > ^^^^^^^^^^ > > > controls access to a work protected under this title. The prohibition conta > ined > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > Actually there is similar wording here (but of course in German) used > > for the similar purpose. The problem with this kind of law is IMHO: > > -) "effectively controls access": If I (or someone else) can circumvent > > it, it is obviously not "effective". > > As Skylarov found out when he got into a pissing match with Adobe, ROT-13 If even ROT-13 is "effective access control", anything which is titles "Access Control" applies. > qualifies as an "effective access control" as far as the law is concerned. AFAICS several folks got my point .... Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services