Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Arne Babenhauserheide <arne_bab AT web.de>]

Am Dienstag, 3. März 2015, 13:54:36 schrieb Sarah Pearson:
> For compatibility purposes, this creates a chance that BY-SA works adapted
> into GPL-licensed projects could be subject to DRM applied by downstream
> users who look only at the GPL requirements.

There’s a practical limitation of the application of DRM in the GPL:

    “Installation Information” for a User Product means any methods,
    procedures, authorization keys, or other information required to
    install and execute modified versions of a covered work in that
    User Product from a modified version of its Corresponding
    Source. The information must suffice to ensure that the continued
    functioning of the modified object code is in no case prevented or
    interfered with solely because modification has been made.

    If you convey an object code work under this section in, or with,
    or specifically for use in, a User Product, and the conveying
    occurs as part of a transaction in which the right of possession
    and use of the User Product is transferred to the recipient in
    perpetuity or for a fixed term (regardless of how the transaction
    is characterized), the Corresponding Source conveyed under this
    section must be accompanied by the Installation Information. But
    this requirement does not apply if neither you nor any third party
    retains the ability to install modified object code on the User
    Product (for example, the work has been installed in ROM).

That means, yes you may use DRM but only if it doesn’t do anything or
if the device is completely non-modifyable (like a physical book).

So it pretty much amounts to disallowing DRM which restricts the user.

Best wishes,
Arne
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