RE: [dvd-discuss] Inexplicable

[Richard Hartman <hartman(at)onetouch.com>]

The source might be available ... but the explanation
of the reason for it might not be.


-- 
-Richard M. Hartman
hartman@onetouch.com

186,000 mi/sec: not just a good idea, it's the LAW!



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Glendon M. Gross [mailto:gross@xinetd.ath.cx]
> Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 6:21 PM
> To: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss] Inexplicable
> 
> 
> I just had a funny thought.  Wouldn't the terms of this patch violate 
> the GPL which requires the source to be freely available?  Or perhaps 
> the need for security documentation is not included in the 
> GPL guarantee 
> for the freedom of the source.  Given this kind of restriction, I 
> certainly would not buy RedHat... I would get one of the BSD's which
> is guaranteed to have no such restrictions on the documentation, the 
> patches, or the source code.
> 
> I'm starting to think that the DMCA might be so full of 
> contradictions 
> that it and the GNU GPL might be mutually exclusive.  Any opinions on 
> this?  It seems to be that RedHat is becoming progressively more like 
> Microsoft.
> 
> In a day when the Chinese government has already decided to use GPL'd 
> software, and when the German military has [to the best of my 
> knowledge]
> decided to prohibit the use of Microsoft operating systems, the GPL 
> might be the straw that broke the DMCA's back.
> 
> Are their any provisions to allow for DVD movies which are licensed 
> under the GPL?  Or does the name DVD imply a proprietary licensing 
> structure?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Glendon Gross
> 
> microlenz@earthlink.net wrote:
> > OK....if anybody out of the USA knows the answer email it 
> to me....but noone 
> > else. I don't want you to be accused of trafficking but a personal 
> > communication is guarded by the DMCA isn't it? Or not?
> > 
> > On 16 Oct 2002 at 8:04, D. C. Sessions wrote:
> > 
> > Subject:        	[dvd-discuss] Inexplicable
> > From:           	"D. C. Sessions" <dcs@lumbercartel.com>
> > To:             	DVD-Discuss <dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu>
> > Date sent:      	16 Oct 2002 08:04:09 -0700
> > Send reply to:  	dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> > 
> > 
> >>Red Hat issues a kernel security patch, but due
> >>to the DMCA can't explain why:
> >>
> >>http://www.theregus.com/content/4/26656.html
> >>
> >>-- 
> >>| The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to 
> the strong. |
> >>| Because the slow, feeble old codgers like me cheat.       
>          |
> >>+--------------- D. C. Sessions <dcs@lumbercartel.com> 
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