Re: Flame Linus to a crisp! AKA DRM

From: Dean McEwan (dean_mcewan@linuxmail.org)
Date: Wed Apr 30 2003 - 05:44:12 EST

On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Zack Gilburd wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Apr 2003 03:35:10 -0700 (PDT)
> Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org> wrote:

Oooh suprise.

>
> > There is one fundamental problem, and nobody has addressed.
> >
> > Who will enforce the GPL over DRM violations?

The copyright author if they so choose to do so.

> > Since it is a blanket over the entire kernel, and you have formally
> > (for the most part) have authorized DRM, thus one assumes you are the only
> > one who can pursue in a court of law.
>
> Unless I am missing something, I was hoping for more of a sparse DRM \
> implementation; not a blanket.
> I was hoping to be able to `modprobe drm` for when I needed to use DRM and likewise \
> `rmmod drm` for when I didn't want it. Maybe I am a little late in this \
> disucssion, but that's just my hopes and whishes. 

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