What are the countries that have the laws that make it illegal you from writing any code that you want?

françai s romapera15 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 30 18:28:37 UTC 2014


2014-10-30 14:18 GMT-03:00, françai s <romapera15 at gmail.com>:
> Hi to all
>
> It is written in documentation " A Quick Guide to GPLv3 " of GNU
> Operating System in title " Neutralizing Laws That Prohibit Free
> Software — But Not Forbidding DRM ":
>
> " You're probably familiar with the Digital Restrictions Management
> (DRM) on DVDs and other media. You're probably also familiar with the
> laws that make it illegal to write your own tools to bypass those
> restrictions, like the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the
> European Union Copyright Directive. Nobody should be able to stop you
> from writing any code that you want, and GPLv3 protects this right for
> you.
>
> It's always possible to use GPLed code to write software that
> implements DRM. However, if someone does that with code protected by
> GPLv3, section 3 says that the system will not count as an effective
> technological "protection" measure. This means that if you break the
> DRM, you'll be free to distribute your own software that does that,
> and you won't be threatened by the DMCA or similar laws.
>
> As usual, the GNU GPL does not restrict what people do in software; it
> just stops them from restricting others. "
>
> What are the countries that have the laws that make it illegal to
> write your own tools to bypass  restrictions, like the Digital
> Millennium Copyright Act and the European Union Copyright Directive?
>
> What are the countries that have the laws that make it illegal you
> from writing any code that you want?
>
> Please, all answer , free software is irresistible to me
>
>
> How contributing to the FreeBSD Project writing code?
>


I forgot to quote the reference:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/quick-guide-gplv3.html


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