[Bill Allombert] > Fact 1: The GFDL include this: > > "You may not use technical measures to obstruct or control the > reading or further copying of the copies you make or distribute." > > Fact 2: The DFSG include this: > > 6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor > > The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the > program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not > restrict the program from being used in a business, or from > being used for genetic research. Yes.... > Fact 3: > > There exist fields of endeavours that require mandatory encryption. > For example, if you work in security-sensitive field, you can be > required to use a hard-drive with built-in encryption. This > technology certainly control who can read the disk. In that case, > you cannot copy a GFDL licensed document to your computer for reading > it. That's not at all what DFSG 6 means. That's equivalent to interpreting DFSG 6 to ban the GPL on the grounds that it discriminates against proprietary software companies. DFSG 6 does not say "anything a company might plausibly want to do, our software must allow them to do". It merely says that every field of endeavor must be given the same rights. Never mind whether that set of rights is enough to satisfy any given party. Peter
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