[Committee-d] Join a subcommittee on DRM

[David Turner]

McCoy Smith <mccoy.smith at intel.com> of Committee B writes:

Andy Wilson & I (both from Intel) volunteered to lead a subgroup
discussion of issues with the concept of "Technical Barriers to
Modification/Protected Boot/'DRM'."  The relevant section in this regard
in current draft are Section 1 (particularly the second paragraph in the
definition of "Complete Corresponding Source") but also Section 3.  

The primary focus here will be with particular technical usage cases
that might cause unintentional (or perhaps intentional, but undesirable)
conflicts with this language, but we should also focus on the "legal
conflicts" that are also created by this section (DCMA is particularly
spelled out, but we should also consider other legal conflicts like FCC,
FDA, etc. regulations and associated laws).

Please e-mail me if you wish to participate in this discussion subgroup.

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He also invited people from other discussion committees to join the
discussion.  If anyone has any particular interest in DRM, please feel
free to email McCoy to join in.  Of course, regardless of what other
committees do, the mighty Committee D will be discussing DRM and related
issues on its own.


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-David Turner
GPL Compliance Engineer
Free Software Foundation