From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Mar 15 14:32:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtp10.phx.gblx.net (smtp10.phx.gblx.net [206.165.6.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 166AF37B71A for ; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 14:32:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr05.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp10.phx.gblx.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA13802; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 15:32:30 -0700 Received: from usr05.primenet.com(206.165.6.205) via SMTP by smtp10.phx.gblx.net, id smtpdBXyMia; Thu Mar 15 15:32:26 2001 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA23599; Thu, 15 Mar 2001 15:32:32 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <200103152232.PAA23599@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: signature (was Re: copyright issues regarding FreeBSD To: brad.knowles@skynet.be (Brad Knowles) Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 22:32:32 +0000 (GMT) Cc: rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in (Rahul Siddharthan), nbm@mithrandr.moria.org (Neil Blakey-Milner), dan@langille.org (Dan Langille), freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Brad Knowles" at Mar 15, 2001 10:58:11 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Speaking of signatures... have you seen this one? > > Declan McCullough popularized it in his Wired article at > , and he > posted information on this to the DC-CypherPunks mailing list, of > which I am a member. Heh... quoting from the referenced article: | The DMCA prohibits anyone from publishing or publicly | distributing any hardware or software that "is primarily | designed or produced for the purpose of circumventing | protection afforded by a technological measure that | effectively protects a right of a copyright owner." So if the technological measure is ineffective, then it's OK to publish and publically distribute it, right? Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message