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<p>For printing, there is also available <a href="drm-and-gplv3.en.pdf">a
PDF of this document</a>.</p>
<h2>Table of Contents</h2>
<ul>
<li><a name="toc_Top" href="#Top">DRM and GPLv3</a></li>
<li><a name="toc_About-this-document" href="#About-this-document">1 About this document</a></li>
<li><a name="toc_Defining-complete-source-code" href="#Defining-complete-source-code">2 Defining complete source code</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#Defining-complete-source-code">2.1 Eben Moglen speaking at the GPLv3 launch, January 16th 2006</a></li>
<li><a href="#Defining-complete-source-code">2.2 Richard Stallman, speaking in Brussels, February 25th 2006</a></li>
<li><a href="#Defining-complete-source-code">2.3 Richard Stallman, speaking in Turin, March 18th 2006</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a name="toc_Permission-to-circumvent-restrictions" href="#Permission-to-circumvent-restrictions">3 Permission to circumvent restrictions</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#Permission-to-circumvent-restrictions">3.1 Eben Moglen, speaking at GPLv3 launch, January 16th 2006</a></li>
<li><a href="#Permission-to-circumvent-restrictions">3.2 Richard Stallman, speaking in Turin, March 18th 2006</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a name="toc_Closing-comments" href="#Closing-comments">4 Closing comments</a></li>
</ul>
<hr />
<p>
Next:
<a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="#About-this-document">About
this document</a>,
Previous:
<a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="#dir">(dir)</a>,
Up:
<a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="#dir">(dir)</a></p>
<p>This document shows the changes which are proposed for version three
of the GNU General Public License which deal with Digital Restrictions
Management (DRM). It includes public comments made by Richard
Stallman and Eben Moglen.</p>
<p>Copyright (c) 2006 Free Software Foundation Europe</p>
<h2>Headings</h2>
<ul>
<blockquote>
Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article is permitted
in any medium, provided this notice is preserved.
</blockquote>
<li><a name="toc_About-this-document" href="#About-this-document">1 About this document</a></li>
<li><a name="toc_Notes-in-preface" href="#Notes-in-preface">2 Notes in preface</a></li>
<li><a name="toc_Defining-complete-source-code" href="#Defining-complete-source-code">3 Defining complete source code</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#Defining-complete-source-code-em0">3.1 Eben Moglen speaking at the GPLv3 launch, January 16th 2006</a></li>
<li><a href="#Defining-complete-source-code-rms0">3.2 Richard Stallman, speaking in Brussels, February 25th 2006</a></li>
<li><a href="#Defining-complete-source-code-rms1">3.3 Richard Stallman, speaking in Turin, March 18th 2006</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a name="toc_Permission-to-circumvent-restrictions" href="#Permission-to-circumvent-restrictions">4 Permission to circumvent restrictions</a>
<ul>
<li><a href="#Permission-to-circumvent-restrictions-em0">4.1 Eben Moglen, speaking at GPLv3 launch, January 16th 2006</a></li>
<li><a href="#Permission-to-circumvent-restrictions-rms0">4.2 Richard Stallman, speaking in Turin, March 18th 2006</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a name="toc_Closing-comments" href="#Closing-comments">5 Closing comments</a></li>
<ul class="menu">
<li><a accesskey="1" href="#About-this-document">About this document</a></li>
<li><a accesskey="2" href="#Defining-complete-source-code">Defining complete source code</a></li>
<li><a accesskey="3" href="#Permission-to-circumvent-restrictions">Permission to circumvent restrictions</a></li>
<li><a accesskey="4" href="#Closing-comments">Closing comments</a></li>
</ul>
<hr /><p>
<a name="About-this-document"></a>Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="#Defining-complete-source-code">Defining complete source code</a>,
Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="#Top">Top</a>,
Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="#Top">Top</a></p>
<h2 class="chapter">1 About this document</h2>
<h2 id="About-this-document">1 About this document</h2>
<p>This document is published by FSFE to aid understanding of the
proposed changes to the GNU General Public License (GPL) with respect
@@ -89,23 +58,38 @@ consel of FSF).</p>
the selection of material for inclusion. Ciaran O'Riordan was
responsible for those activities.</p>
<hr />
<p>
<a name="Defining-complete-source-code"></a>Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="#Permission-to-circumvent-restrictions">Permission to circumvent restrictions</a>,
Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="#About-this-document">About this document</a>,
Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="#Top">Top</a>
</p>
<h2 class="chapter">2 Defining complete source code</h2>
<h2 id="Notes-in-preface">2 Notes in preface</h2>
<table>
<tr align="left"><th valign="top" width="50%">GPLv2 </th><th valign="top" width="50%">GPLv3, first draft
<tr align="left">
<th valign="top" width="50%">GPLv2 </th>
<th valign="top" width="50%">GPLv3, first draft</th>
</tr>
<tr align="left">
</th></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="50%">(no corresponding section in version two)
<td valign="top" width="50%">(no corresponding section in version two)</td>
</td><td valign="top" width="50%">Complete Corresponding Source Code also includes any encryption
<td valign="top" width="50%">Some countries have adopted laws prohibiting software that
enables users to escape from Digital Restrictions Management. DRM is
fundamentally incompatible with the purpose of the GPL, which is to
protect users' freedom; therefore, the GPL ensures that the software
it covers will neither be subject to, nor subject other works to,
digital restrictions from which escape is forbidden.</td>
</tr>
</table>
<h2 id="Defining-complete-source-code">3 Defining complete source code</h2>
<table>
<tr align="left">
<th valign="top" width="50%">GPLv2 </th>
<th valign="top" width="50%">GPLv3, first draft </th>
</tr>
<tr align="left">
<td valign="top" width="50%">(no corresponding section in version two)</td>
<td valign="top" width="50%">Complete Corresponding Source Code also includes any encryption
or authorization codes necessary to install and/or execute the source
code of the work, perhaps modified by you, in the recommended or
principal context of use, such that its functioning in all
@@ -113,17 +97,18 @@ circumstances is identical to that of the work, except as altered by
your modifications. It also includes any decryption codes necessary to
access or unseal the work's output. Notwithstanding this, a code need
not be included in cases where use of the work normally implies the
user already has it.
user already has it.</td>
</tr>
</table>
</td></tr></table>
<h3 class="section">2.1 Eben Moglen speaking at the GPLv3 launch, January 16th 2006</h3>
<h3 id="Defining-complete-source-code-em0">3.1 Eben Moglen speaking at the GPLv3 launch, January 16th 2006</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.ifso.ie/documents/gplv3-launch-2006-01-16.html#em-auth-codes">http://www.ifso.ie/documents/gplv3-launch-2006-01-16.html#em-auth-codes</a></p>
<p>I would translate that for vernacular use, into "plays all the same movies".</p>
<h3 class="section">2.2 Richard Stallman, speaking in Brussels, February 25th 2006</h3>
<h3 id="Defining-complete-source-code-rms0">3.2 Richard Stallman, speaking in Brussels, February 25th 2006</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.ifso.ie/documents/rms-gplv3-2006-02-25.html#tackling-drm">http://www.ifso.ie/documents/rms-gplv3-2006-02-25.html#tackling-drm</a></p>
@@ -206,7 +191,7 @@ out of the user's control. So we thwart DRM by insisting that the user
must retain the control of the machine and as long as you respect
that, you can program the software to do whatever you like.</p>
<h3 class="section">2.3 Richard Stallman, speaking in Turin, March 18th 2006</h3>
<h3 id="Defining-complete-source-code-rms1">3.3 Richard Stallman, speaking in Turin, March 18th 2006</h3>
<p><a href="http://fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3/torino-rms-transcript#drm-and-laws">http://fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3/torino-rms-transcript#drm-and-laws</a></p>
@@ -310,30 +295,38 @@ the freedom to take the program you were given, modify it, and run the
modified version to do a different thing on the same data on the same
machine.</p>
<hr />
<p>
<a name="Permission-to-circumvent-restrictions"></a>Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="#Closing-comments">Closing comments</a>,
Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="#Defining-complete-source-code">Defining complete source code</a>,
Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="#Top">Top</a>
</p>
<h2 class="chapter">3 Permission to circumvent restrictions</h2>
<h2 id="Permission-to-circumvent-restrictions">4 Permission to circumvent restrictions</h2>
<table>
<tr align="left"><th valign="top" width="50%">GPLv2 </th><th valign="top" width="50%">GPLv3, first draft
<tr align="left">
<th valign="top" width="50%">GPLv2 </th>
<th valign="top" width="50%">GPLv3, first draft </th>
</tr>
<tr align="left">
<td valign="top" width="50%">(no corresponding section in version two)</td>
</th></tr><tr align="left"><td valign="top" width="50%">(no corresponding section in version two)
</td><td valign="top" width="50%">No covered work constitutes part of an effective technological
<td valign="top" width="50%">Digital Restrictions Management.<br />
<br />
As a free software license, this License intrinsically disfavors
technical attempts to restrict users' freedom to copy, modify, and
share copyrighted works. Each of its provisions shall be interpreted
in light of this specific declaration of the licensor's
intent. Regardless of any other provision of this License, no
permission is given to distribute covered works that illegally invade
users' privacy, nor for modes of distribution that deny users that run
covered works the full exercise of the legal rights granted by this
License.<br />
<br />
No covered work constitutes part of an effective technological
protection measure: that is to say, distribution of a covered work as
part of a system to generate or access certain data constitutes
general permission at least for development, distribution and use,
under this License, of other software capable of accessing the same
data.</td></tr></table>
data.</td>
</tr>
</table>
<h3 class="section">3.1 Eben Moglen, speaking at GPLv3 launch, January 16th 2006</h3>
<h3 id="Permission-to-circumvent-restrictions-em0">4.1 Eben Moglen, speaking at GPLv3 launch, January 16th 2006</h3>
<p><a href="http://www.ifso.ie/documents/gplv3-launch-2006-01-16.html#em-not-a-tpm">http://www.ifso.ie/documents/gplv3-launch-2006-01-16.html#em-not-a-tpm</a></p>
@@ -357,7 +350,7 @@ law, but we do have power by giving permission to make clear where our
permissions should not be mis-read under local laws that presume user
disablement from mere technological existence.</p>
<h3 class="section">3.2 Richard Stallman, speaking in Turin, March 18th 2006</h3>
<h3 id="Permission-to-circumvent-restrictions-rms0">4.2 Richard Stallman, speaking in Turin, March 18th 2006</h3>
<p><a href="http://fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3/torino-rms-transcript#drm-and-laws">http://fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3/torino-rms-transcript#drm-and-laws</a></p>
@@ -376,33 +369,31 @@ on their own software to read the output of your program.</p>
<p>This also is a matter of recognising and respecting their freedom to
develop software and use their computers.</p>
<hr />
<p>
<a name="Closing-comments"></a>Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="#Permission-to-circumvent-restrictions">Permission to circumvent restrictions</a>,
Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="#Top">Top</a>
</p>
<h2 class="chapter">4 Closing comments</h2>
<h2 id="Closing-comments">5 Closing comments</h2>
<p>A year-long consultation is being held to spread awareness of the
proposed changes to GPLv3, and to solicit comments. This document was
produced as part of FSFE's efforts to assist this process. For more
information about FSFE's efforts, see:</p>
information about FSFE's efforts, see:</p>n
<p><a href="http://www.fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3/">http://www.fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3/</a></p>
<ul>
<li><a
href="http://www.fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3/">http://www.fsfeurope.org/projects/gplv3/</a></li>
</ul>
<p>The official website of the GPLv3 process is:</p>
<p><a href="http://gplv3.fsf.org">http://gplv3.fsf.org</a></p>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://gplv3.fsf.org">http://gplv3.fsf.org</a></li>
</ul>
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