- From: Duncan Bayne <dhgbayne@fastmail.fm>
- Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 16:13:20 -0700
- To: Jeff Jaffe <jeff@w3.org>, Andreas Kuckartz <A.Kuckartz@ping.de>
- Cc: piranna@gmail.com, public-restrictedmedia@w3.org, Emmanuel Revah <stsil@manurevah.com>
Jeff, > when the practice was established to be compatible with open > source, it was not an intention that W3C Recommendations must be > implementable with every open source license. That's a straw-man argument. The issue is not that the EME proposal is incompatible with *any particular* FOSS license, it is that the EME proposal is incompatible with *all* FOSS licenses. Put simply: - major content providers will not implement and release CDMs that can be trivially bypassed - a CDM released under *any* FOSS license is, by nature, trivial to bypass - therefore, no major content providers will release CDMs under FOSS licenses Do you dispute either of those premises, or the conclusion? If not, then it follows that a DRM recommendation by the W3C is in practice incompatible with any FOSS license. -- Duncan Bayne ph: +61 420817082 | web: http://duncan-bayne.github.com/ | skype: duncan_bayne I usually check my mail every 24 - 48 hours. If there's something urgent going on, please send me an SMS or call me at the above number.
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