Re: SSSCA Hits the Senate

[Herman Oosthuysen]

The obvious solution is to continue the way Richard Stallman envisaged:
***Distribute all code in source form only - no binary distributions.***

This way, the source files are protected under freedom of speech rules and
the originator of the work is safe.

It is then up to the user to do with the code what he/she wants.

I think that while many people think that Richard is paranoid, he actually
was far more prophetic than most people wants to give him credit for...

Cheers,
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Herman Oosthuysen
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Subject: Re: SSSCA Hits the Senate

>
> >
> > This is bad, very bad. If the bill passes as written, all software will
> > be subject to it. Senator Hollings and his cronies (and anyone who
> > thinks like them) need to get a clue. They need to be out of office.
> >
> > (My apologies in advance if this does not come across as text. My
> > regular system is broken and I'm forced to use Winsucks and Nutscrape
> > for my mail.)
> >
> > http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51274,00.html
> >
> > PGA
>
> Has there been anything that says the copy protection code can't be
source?
> If it were included in the source, along with all the other code, would
that
> be recognized as "protected"?
>
> It would also be impossible to include copy protection in a compiler..
>
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