Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 1st Oct 2005 16:25 UTC
"Sun Microsystems must have figured digital rights management never sounded so good when it recently announced a call for partners in its quest to use open source DRM to "compensate rights holders and stimulate innovation," but Sun's open DReaM (DRM everywhere available) Project is as scary as any other content control nightmare to open source and digital freedom proponents."
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RE[3]: Before everybody jups to a conclusion
by on Sat 1st Oct 2005 21:45
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Member since:Perhaps you should check your facts. Linus does not own the copyright to the entire kernel. Red Hat, Novell, IBM, HP and numerous other contributors all own their respective contributions/copyrights unless they assign them to Linus. This is why IBM is countersueing SCO over SCO's infringement of IBM's copyrights in the Linux Kernel. Check the copyright notices on a bunch of random files in the kernel and you will see that not all of the code is owned by Linus. An example:
Perhaps you're right, but the basic fact remains, and the Kernel still allows binary modules. And Besides why wouldn't those other companies allow such thing as DRM?
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And there are binary modules in the kernel as well, In fact I don't think Linuz would have any problem(as the Linux copyright holder)
Perhaps you should check your facts. Linus does not own the copyright to the entire kernel. Red Hat, Novell, IBM, HP and numerous other contributors all own their respective contributions/copyrights unless they assign them to Linus. This is why IBM is countersueing SCO over SCO's infringement of IBM's copyrights in the Linux Kernel. Check the copyright notices on a bunch of random files in the kernel and you will see that not all of the code is owned by Linus. An example:
linux-2.6.13.2/fs/jfs/jfs_dmap.c
/*
* Copyright (C) International Business Machines Corp., 2000-2004
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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* (at your option) any later version.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See
* the GNU General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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* Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
*/