On Mon, Oct 14, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Ben Finney wrote: > The question I'm raising is whether copyright reserves the actions > Google asserts; or, more precisely, whether Google could effectively > limit a Debian recipient's DFSG freedoms by asserting putative copyright > in these works. > > They could attempt to enforce copyright against any party redistributing > the work, claiming that party has no license to redistribute if they > didn't comply with the terms of the license. > > While I hope Paul is correct in saying these works are not subject to > copyright restriction, I suspect there may be a significant set of > jurisdictions where copyright does restrict these works. Google could > make these works effectively non-free by attempting to enforce copyright > restrictions.
I wonder if the DMCA (aka why we don't ship libdvdcss) could be used by Google to block distribution of Debian's distribution of these keys? -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caktje6fe96d0uwq8z5hewj++gx6hos294bruhkay+ak+dhr...@mail.gmail.com
