[ Thanks to Grigor
Gatchev for this link. ]
“This year the Free Software Foundation published a draft for
GPL v3. It aimed to preserve better the freedom of the software and
its users. One of the new elements was forbidding the usage of free
software with forms of DRM that will deny the users their freedom
to run, examine, modify and/or distribute the software. (An example
of such a DRM is the TiVO device. It works under Linux, but is
designed to allow running only versions that are digitally signed
by the TiVO manufacturer. Thus, it denies the users the freedom to
modify and then run this Linux.)“Many free software luminaries supported the changes. Some,
however, did not. For example, the best-known free software
project, the Linux kernel, is licensed under GPL v2, without the
provision of ‘or any further version.’ And its creator and leader,
Linux Torwalds, has spoken against relicensing the kernel under GPL
v3…”
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