The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has released a draft of the GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 3.
One of the more interesting provision focuses on GPL software in DRM software. It prevents GPL-licensed software from being used in DRM copy-protection software.
"We are trying to do what we can, in a limited way, to use the freedoms that our licence gives us to actively work against the spread of DRM restrictions," said Eben Moglen, an FSF board member and one of the authors of the draft.
This provision was most likely set into stone after Sebastian Porst discovered LPGL code from the LAME project, mpglib and VideoLAN in the F4I code used in Sony's XCP software.
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