On 3/23/06, MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > We require that licenses don't discriminate against fields > > of endeavor, but we have never considered "the right to > > distribute this free software in a non-free fashion" a field of > > endeavor. > > I'm not convinced that using DRM/DRRT/"technical measures" is > necessarily a non-free fashion. For example, parallel distribution > of an uncontrolled copy would enable the recipient to exercise > the four freedoms, but seems prohibited by the FDL. > > I understand that some systems will only load from controlled media: > should free software be banned from them? Seems a restriction on > a field of use to me.
It's not clear to me that the GFDL prohibits DRM where a parallel distribution mechanism is guaranteed to be available. If free parallel distribution is guaranteed to be available, relevant, and convenient, it's not clear to me how any technical measures could be said to be controlling the copying or reading of the material. Anyways, what "field of use" is it that specifically concerns itself with limiting other people's rights to make copies of software? -- Raul
