[Discussioni] gplv3

[Andrea Russo]

Francesco Potorti` <pot a potorti.it> writes:

> A che serve mettere qualunque nota sul DRM nella licenza, quando il
> codice è disponibile, e chi vuole può disabilitare ogni funzionalità di
> DRM?

Forse puo' aiutare la risposta di Stallman ad una domanda sulla gplv3
e il DRM in un intervista su linuxp2p.com [1] che ho riportato qui per
comodita':

LinuxP2P: The Free Software Foundation is currently working on the GPL
version 3, which I understand will ban all forms of DRM. A large
amount of P2P software exists under the GNU GPL. Will the GPLv3 have
any effect on those projects, considering one can use P2P software to
download files with DRM?

RMS: That is somewhat of a misunderstanding--we cannot "ban DRM". What
we can do is prevent GPL-covered software from being corrupted into an
instrument for implementing DRM.

The way we do this is not by restricting which technical jobs the
program can do. (That kind of restriction would make the program
non-free.) Instead, we make sure that users retain the effective
freedom to change the software and run their changed versions.

Since DRM is based on restricting the user, effectively maintaining
the user's freedom thwarts DRM. Or more precisely, effectively
maintaining the user's freedom to change a certain program thwarts use
of that program to implement DRM. We cannot stop them from
implementing DRM in other ways.

These parts of GPL v3 will have no effect on such programs, because
they are not used to impose Digital Restriction, and their developers
do not attempt to stop users from running modified versions.



Anch'io sto cercando di schiarirmi le idee sull'argomento, quindi se
qualcuno ha link interessanti da proporre...

ciao,
Andrea.

Footnotes: 
[1]  http://www.linuxp2p.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=10771

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