Community controlled languages - Perl - PHP - Python
This talk examines the DRM-related clauses that have been proposed for inclusion in version 3 of the GNU General Public License. It considers the effects of the language in the FSF's first draft, as well as the directions in which that language might move for the final version. I then analyse the effects that a strengthened GPL could conceivably have on the development of DRM systems, and the strategic considerations involved for the Free Software Foundation, the broader open source software community, DRM developers, major copyright holders, and even governments.
It is concluded that the draft DRM-related clauses _could_ have a wide ranging impact on copyright industries' plans for DRM. Predicting the actual impact is difficult because of (a) uncertainties in the way that the current GPLv3 draft will evolve; (b) legal uncertainties about how it will interact with `anti-circumvention' laws such as the DMCA (c) the complicated strategic decisions that affected groups will have to make in reaction to the revision.