Regarding the text:no permission is given for modes of conveying that deny users that run covered works In section: gpl3.drm.p0.s1 Submitted by: robmyerson 2006-11-30 at 10:20 EST
0 agree:
noted by robmyerson 2006-11-30 at 10:20 EST:
Is conveying the work with DRM added a mode of conveyance??? It seems more like the DRM is part of what is conveyed, not how.
Will the downloaded work still be protected by this clause when a DRM vendor decides to decrease their rights after conveyance? For example Apple Music Store's reduction in how many times you can burn a CD, etc.
DRM is usually a system that the GPL software would run on, so it is a
"mode". Software can't restrict itself. Someone could modify GPL
software to run only 3 times, and then cripple or make the software
refuse to run again. If the user has access to the source code and can
delete and run any package on their computer, they can easily change the
software (themself or by someone else) so that they can run it an
unlimited number of times. That seems in the scope and intention of GPL
software, but not of Digital Restrictions Management.
I think you may be talking at cross purposes. robmyers appears to be
talking about DRM in the normal sense - control of access rights for
digital content. ashawley seems to be talking about DRM in the less
normal sense of trust controls on the software executable on a device.
The latter sense is common in the free software discussion, but nowhere
else.
Comment 2214: DRM
Regarding the text:
In section: gpl3.drm.p0.s1
Submitted by: robmyers on 2006-11-30 at 10:20 EST
0 agree:
noted by robmyers on 2006-11-30 at 10:20 EST: noted by ashawley on 2006-11-30 at 20:54 EST: noted by sepreece on 2006-12-06 at 10:26 EST:
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