On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 3:38 PM, Richard Fontana
<fontana(a)sharpeleven.org> wrote:
I replaced the anti-anti-circumvention provision with a FIXME for
the
time being.
What's a *real-world* scenario in which the waiver feature of the
earlier provision would do any good? Assume this license is likely to
be used primarily for software.
For reference, the last draft of the earlier provision was:
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Each Distributor of a Covered Work (i) waives all rights to forbid
circumvention of technological measures achieved by exercising
rights under this License with respect to a Covered Work, and (ii)
disclaims any intention to limit operation or modification of the
Received Work as a means of enforcing such Upstream Distributor's
or third parties' legal rights to forbid circumvention of
technological measures.
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Much of the impact depends on what "rights under this License" are -
if there is a strong requirement for installation materials
(particularly keys), then (i) has some bite for embedded/mobile
devices. [Caveat: that assumes that anyone shipping such a device
would ever permit a license with this clause to be on their devices,
which is doubtful. But if the license did end up on some critical
components, like the kernel, it could be of use.]
Luis