I wrote: > Accordingly, no program licensed under this License is a > technological measure which effectively controls access to any > work."
Walter Landry wrote: >Again, writing this sentence into the license doesn't make it true. Well, no, but I think it is in fact true. >It is decided by external factors, such as whether the people >implementing the scheme know how to do decent crypto. No; if I wrote this correctly, it is true. According to the legal definitions which I was using, it "effectively controls access" if it requires the application of information (etc.) with *copyright holder authority* in order to access. This is impossible because there is no mechanistic way to test whether the information is being provided with copyright holder authority or without it. No program can actually require copyright holder authority; it's unimplementable. -- Nathanael Nerode <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "It's just a goddamned piece of paper." -- President Bush, referring to the US Constitution http://www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_7779.shtml -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
