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  • From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen AT iki.fi>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-licenses] Version 3.0 - Public Discussion
  • Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2006 12:22:51 +0300

On Aug 10, 2006, at 23:03, Evan Prodromou wrote:

Again, I'll contrast to Free Software applications running on proprietary operating systems. If the GPL had forbidden running or developing a Free app on a propriety OS, there would be no Free Software today.

When the GNU Project started, they had to bootstrap on proprietary systems. When CC started there were--and still are--plenty of media players around that don't require technical protection measures in the mass-distributed data.

For example, you can distribute DRMless files to iPod users. They put the files in the one-way iPod cage on their own. The distributor is not required to apply FairPlay. So the popularity of iPod is no reason for allowing DRM in *distribution*.

I believe that PSP will also happily play DRMless MPEG-4 movies and display DRMless JPEG images. Please correct me if I am wrong. All in all, console games that require signing by the platform vendor are a fringe case when you consider the whole Free Culture spectrum.

Besides, for a game to be Free, you have to be allowed to make modifications and run your modified version. If the ability to run your modified version requires you to go beg for signing by Sony, de facto the arrangement in non-Free as a whole and fails the Desert Island test.

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Henri Sivonen
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