On 1/16/06, Patrick R. Wade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://gplv3.fsf.org/draft
Interesting Bits from GPLv3 Can't encrypt source or binaries, or access to execution environment. """ Complete Corresponding Source Code also includes any encryption or authorization codes necessary to install and/or execute the source code of the work, perhaps modified by you, in the recommended or principal context of use, such that its functioning in all circumstances is identical to that of the work, except as altered by your modifications. It also includes any decryption codes necessary to access or unseal the work's output. Notwithstanding this, a code need not be included in cases where use of the work normally implies the user already has it.""" this has several implications that are not all that clear and is likely to have some unforeseen interactions with national laws like the DMCA. Does this mean that if you have a method for cryptographically authenticating system software at boot that you have to include the private key that allows you to sign your kernel binaries...? Free nonexclusive patent grant """ When you distribute a covered work, you grant a patent license to the recipient, and to anyone that receives any version of the work, permitting, for any and all versions of the covered work, all activities allowed or contemplated by this License, such as installing, running and distributing versions of the work, and using their output. This patent license is nonexclusive, royalty-free and worldwide, and covers all patent claims you control or have the right to sublicense, at the time you distribute the covered work or in the future, that would be infringed or violated by the covered work or any reasonably contemplated use of the covered work.""" This will cause some screaming. and gnashing of teeth, don't expect this one to make it into the final product, although if you are a smaller player dependent on FOSS tools (as most of us are) it's a good idea that could serve as a safe haven from the patent wars. -- http://Zoneverte.org -- information explained Do you know what your IT infrastructure does?
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