On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 12:10:44AM +0100, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > On Friday 22 December 2006 23:43, Alec Warner wrote: > > Say I approve only GPL-3 packages (cause' I hate patents, and I dislike > > having a working system too!). This would encompass anything strictly > > GPL-3 and also anything GPL-2+ (which would then be under 3 at my option > > in this case). > Not really, as GPL-2 does not disallow DRM (_if_ GPL-3 will disallow them), > so > if there's a software licensed under GPL-2+ that uses DRM, it couldn't be > used under GPL-3 terms even at your option.
I believe you're misunderstanding the DRM issue. There is nothing in the GPL-3 draft that forbids DRM, except insofar as the DRM prevents the user from exercising his/her GPL-granted rights, and it is not likely that the final GPL-3 will forbid it. In plain English, as long as you're able to modify, compile, and run the code, it's fine as far as the GPL is concerned. And Gentoo being a source-based distro, you can already know you're able to do all that. It's also possible that I'm misunderstanding your message, of course. If I am, would you please clarify? -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
