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Bradley Kuhn (bkuhn) - 10 years ago 2014-03-20 13:34:29
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@@ -509,25 +509,25 @@ available to subjugate users.  For example:
 
  Richard M.~Stallman's essay,
 
  \href{http://www.wired.com/opinion/2012/11/richard-stallman-software-patents/}{\textit{Let’s
 
      Limit the Effect of Software Patents, Since We Can’t Eliminate Them}}
 
  for more information on the problems these patents present to society.}
 

	
 
\item Digital Restrictions Management (usually called \defn{DRM}) is often
 
  used to impose technological restrictions on users' ability to exercise
 
  software freedom that they might otherwise be granted\footnote{See
 
    \S~\ref{GPLv3-drm} for more information on how GPL deals with this issue.}.
 
  The simplest (and perhaps oldest) form of DRM, of course, is separating
 
  software source code (read by humans), from their compiled binaries (read
 
  only by computers).  Furthermore,
 
  \href{http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201}{17 USC 1201} often
 
  \href{http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/1201}{17 USC~\S1201} often
 
  prohibits users legally from circumventing some of these DRM systems.
 

	
 
\item Most EULAs also include a contractual agreement that bind users further
 
  by forcing them to agree to a contractual, prohibitive software license
 
  before ever even using the software.
 

	
 
\end{itemize}
 

	
 
Thus, most proprietary software restricts users via multiple interlocking
 
legal and technological means.  Any license that truly respect the software
 
freedom of all users must not only grant appropriate copyright permissions,
 
but also \textit{prevent} restrictions from other legal and technological
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