[pp.int.general] 3-step usage rights / forced licensing model

Christian Hufgard pp at christian-hufgard.de
Wed Nov 4 13:44:50 CET 2009


Brian McNeil wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 02:28 -0500, Richard Stallman wrote:
>> I do however agree that RMS escrow solution would have a hard time to
>> win
>>     acceptance and hard to enforce due to the reasons that Pasi and you
>> states.
>>
>> I think it would be easy to enforce, once a suitable agency for the
>> escrow is set up.
>
> There is a long-standing precedent for RMS's proposal that you've been
> living under a rock if you've never heard of.
>
> It's called the Library of Congress.

And there they collect every release of every software that was braught to
market? With its source code?


Christian



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