[vorbis] SSSCA

[Felix Rieger]

I personally think you cannot forbid any open.source projects because its like
giving a gift to the people who want it... and giving legal things like source
code written by yourself to other people cant be illegal...
Felix

Reuben Martin schrieb:

> This may not directly be a vorbis topic, but it could have some VERY serious
> implications for open source development. I read this morning on the doom9
> site about the "Security Systems Standard and Certification Act." I not a
> lawyer so I'm just going by doom9's interpretation. Here's an excerpt from
> doom9:
>
> "Should it pass kiss your rights as a consumer by bye. As a side effect any
> open source software will effectively become illegal as well as the DRM
> management all devices will have to integrate will certainly be proprietary
> and can therefore not be implemented into open source software."
>
> Has anybody here already seen this? If there are any legal experts here,
> could you take a look at the actual draft and see if Open Source is actually
> in danger from this act?  http://cryptome.org/sssca.htm
>
> -Reuben
>
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