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Bradley Kuhn (bkuhn) - 10 years ago 2014-03-15 20:43:19
bkuhn@ebb.org
Note DMCA restrictions and how it relates to DRM.
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@@ -479,8 +479,15 @@ available to subjugate users.  For example:
 
      Limit the Effect of Software Patents, Since We Can’t Eliminate Them}}
 
  for more information on the problems these patents present to society.}
 

	
 
\item
 

	
 
\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{GPLv3s3} 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
 
  prohibits users legally from circumventing some of these DRM systems.
 

	
 

	
 
\subsection{Non-USA Copyright Regimes}
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@@ -1872,7 +1879,7 @@ So end the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License.
 
\section{GPLv3 \S 2: Basic Permissions}
 

	
 
\section{GPLv3 \S 3: What Hath DMCA Wrought}
 

	
 
\label{GPLv3s3}
 
\section{GPLv3 \S 4: Verbatim Copying}
 

	
 
\section{GPLv3 \S 5: Modified Source}
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