Re: [OS:N:] RMS ON DRM

It's kind of funny, cause SCO is claiming IP rights back to "RMS". 
This why SCO says anything Linux is Unix= SCO.
Jay
On Thursday 14 August 2003 08:49 am, James Michael DuPont wrote:
> As if magically ordered, RMS has just made statements on DRM that are
> relevant to this whole discussion :
> http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=260
>
> """"
> TRB: Awhile back Linus Torvalds said he wasn't really opposed to DRM
> technology being integrated into GNU/Linux and suggested that the GPL
> didn't forbid such.
>
> RMS: The GNU GPL does not forbid DRM features as such, and it clearly
> has no effect on DRM in application programs that run on GNU/Linux,
> because application programs are not legally required to be GPL'd or
> even to be free software. But the GPL may put some limits on some of
> the changes in Linux (the kernel) that would be needed to include DRM
> support in Linux itself.

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