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Re: [News] Andrew "Tridge" Tridgell Wants the GPL to Go Stronger Against DRM

7 wrote:

> I think the key here is not to mix up GPL and anti-drm. A separate 
> anti-drm license extension should be produced for certain projects 
> that are key to targeting drm related violators of free software. It 
> would only apply to certain key projects like codecs for example so 
> that free software developers can use them on projects with higher 
> than usual risks of violators being attracted to it like a magnet.

Sounds reasonable.

The problem is that the kind of people who abuse Free Software are not,
neither are those who evangelise Intellectual Monopoly.

The fact is that /all/ software, Free or otherwise, is "high risk",
given the predatory nature of certain companies.

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K.
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