Re: [OS:N:] DRM and Open Source
James Michael DuPont <[email protected]>
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--- Seth Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > James, > > DRM eliminates the fact/expression dichotomy. > > You don't want it. > > Exclusive rights don't cover information. Only the original way you > express > it. Letting people bottle up so-called "content" so it can't be > parsed and > used in a flexible fashion eliminates the advantages we gain from > exclusive > rights policy. > > We only give authors and inventors exclusive rights so that they will > provide us with information. Giving them the power to control > whether we > can parse "published" information is taking away fundamental rights > to use > information freely. Ok. So the FSEDU project to aggree also on an anti-DRM policy. DRM is bad news for free software and free software for education. It is bad news for student who study at greedy universities. I am thinking about some type of license a FULA- a free users license agreement, a clickwrap license that would grant you all the rights back that the DIGITALTHINK EULA takes away, and require you to license all derived works and human readable content under that license as well, to the extent that the DIGITALTHINK EULA can take them. what do you think? ===== James Michael DuPont http://introspector.sourceforge.net/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Subscription and Archive: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/open-source-now-list/ - For K12OS technical help join K12OSN: <https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn>