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Re: [dvd-discuss] Re: [DMCA_discuss] Linux kernel security fixes censored by the DMCA



On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 11:51:16AM -0500, Roy Murphy wrote:
> This was nothing more than a publicity stunt by Alan Cox.
> 
> He censored a kernel changelog.  The changelog is a description of the purpose
> of the patches that he accepted an incorporated.  A *description* of the existing
> security hole which was patched *is*not* a device.  No reasonable person could
> confuse it with a device.  I won't even go into 1201(a)(2) A/B/C analysis.

Just a description, right? Just like what Felten wanted to publish
before being "warned" of the potential legal ramifications?

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