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craigm wrote:

Telamon wrote:

The software does not have to be in the public domain for the standard
to be open. The standard is one thing, the software is an implementation
of the standard. I can write software that complies with an open
standard and sell it without putting the source in the public domain.


The DRM standard in part uses proprietary code licensed by several
companies depend on the mode you operate in. That does not meet the open
requirement.



I think the difference in our opinion revolve around the definition of
an open standard. There is enough information on the net that someone
can develop the code to receive DRM.


There are many ways this can be enforced.

Yes, but you would have to violate the terms of the GPL.


I don't know what you are talking about here. This software is being
sold and is not free. If there is a free DRM radio decoder I did not
know about it. I don't understand how this could be because some of the
encoding/decoding algorithms are not free. Please point to the free DRM
decoding software.


You haven't looked at http://sourceforge.net/projects/drm/

You download for free, compile and use. If you don't like something
about the code, change it, recompile and use.

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Interesting that Coding technologies will allow an individual use of
un-compiled code. However, they are not giving up their rights to that
code in a commercial enterprise. They expect to get paid for that
software if it goes in somebody's radio.
http://www.codingtechnologies.com/licensing/DRM.htm

Also interesting is that compiled versions of the Dream software must be
paid for on the DRM website.
http://www.winradio.com/home/download-drm.htm

Maybe you can explain why a commercial company would provide un-compiled
versions of it's software for free while at the same time trying to
sell it.

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Telamon
Ventura, California