Re: [DotGNU]DCMA devils - not under the OSD.

[Barry Fitzgerald]

John wrote:
> 
> Barry Fitzgerald wrote:
> > > Encrypting our data stream or programs would run counter to a different
> > > clause of the OSD dealing with obvuscation of property. If obscured, not
> > > Open Source.
> > >
> >
> > I think that, from the privacy perspective, most people wouldn't want
> > their data open source in the first place.
> 
> I should have been clearer when I wrote the above. Of course we have to
> encrypt the data, but we also publish the scheme of that data. "Keeping
> the scheme unpublished would run counter to the OSD" would have been
> closer to my intended warning.
> 
> I should have been clearer on the first iteration.
> 
> John


Ahh, OK - that makes some more sense.  Absolutely!  :)

I agree entirely.  If the program is open, but the format is not, what
good is the program?

        -Barry