Re: Results for Debian's Position on the GFDL
On 15 Mar 2006 00:11:11 -0500, Michael Poole <mdpoole@troilus.org> wrote:
> > File permissions have little or nothing to do with enforcing copyright.
> >
> > File permissions are an all or nothing mechanism. You either have
> > given a person a copy of the copyrighted material, or you have not.
>
> Things like the execute bit, not to mention ACLs like those supported
> in AFS, NTFS, and other systems, make this claim transparently false.
So don't do that.
> File permissions control more forms of access than just who can copy a
> work -- but even the read bit taken in isolation is a mechanism that
> effectively controls access to a work.
The mere existence of file permissions are not the problem here.
Giving someone a copy of a work and arranging file permissions
so they can't read that work is bad, but nothing requires you do
that.
--
Raul
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