Besides...I'm wonderingt how ambigue this still remains. "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."
Ok...let's hypothetically take CCS was open source, and the licence does not prohibit a restricive use of CCS. It's still the question if the DECCS program wouldn't be illegal, now, though. The question could be asked; is DECCS a derivate of CCS? Does it automatically fall under the GPL too, if some program breaks or circumvents a GPL-based program? And, it's not the Open Source licence that restricts anyone, perhaps, but the DMCA. Therefor, taken literal, a prog could be OS, not restricting the use, and still, breaking it would be forbidden under the DMCA (if the original author would complain about it, which is extremely unlikely in this case). Not restricting someone within/by the licence, and explicitely allowing something are two different things. Just a thought. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ian Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Newsbyte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Toad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 2004 8:02 PM Subject: Re: [freenet-chat] Re: [freenet-support] RE: anonymity(NOT) > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 25 Aug 2004, at 17:59, Newsbyte wrote: > > >> Such a tool would BY DEFINITION not be open source. And if it had to > >> >run > >> in its own JVM there would be a major performance cost at least on > >> older > >> JVMs. > > > > No, it wouldn't. In the sense of a GPL'ed Open source project, it > > would, but > > that's not the only licence possible for Open Source. It's perfectly > > possible to make the code public and open source, but make a > > reservation in > > your licence that it may not be used to (make a tool to) circumvent the > > encryption. > > Not according to section 6 of the Open Source definition: > > 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. > > See: http://opensource.org/docs/definition.php > > Ian. > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) > > iD8DBQFBLNQzQtgxRWSmsqwRAnPrAJ0bJq+470CQu57HBX/30a0wytPyvgCfTZJR > SL9xCsZlR2lJ7ig9WVIYEE0= > =Dhmw > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ chat mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.network.freenet.general
