Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2009-05-31 09:05:10, schrieb John Goerzen: >> Could you share your reasoning with us, specifically why you don't like >> each of the four options I mentioned? (Reproduced below) >> >> 1) Remove the DRM feature entirely > > And IF proples want o knoiw, whether a PDF was DRM'ed? > >> 2) Patch the default to have it disabled > > This let peoples in the assumption, the PDF can legaly copied even if it > is not
This has nothing to do with that. This is a bit flag, and has nothing to do with the legality of copying some or all of the PDF. It is *always* legal, in the United States at least, to excerpt small parts of a document. This holds whether or not the author set this flag. It holds whether you copied and pasted, retyped, or photocopied. Also, I think it is silly to assert that it would ever be illegal to run cp on a PDF on one's own disk. If it's legal to cp it, then it is legal to convert it to text format. -- John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
