[beyond-licensing] quick review of scope, resources, and goals

[Brian Behlendorf]

More of a DRM and DMCA story than anything else, but of course 
antithetical to Open Source:

https://boingboing.net/2015/05/13/john-deere-of-course-you-ow.html

we did win a partial victory on this in November, but only to inspect 
software on vehicles, not modify or jailbreak:

http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2015/11/09/copyright-office-dmca-exemptions-for-automotive-software-jailbreaking-smart-tvs/id=62834/

The fight for open source farm equipment continues!  I keep hoping this 
project will take off:

http://opensourceecology.org/gvcs/

What can we do to help?

Brian

On Wed, 20 Apr 2016, Danese Cooper wrote:
> The tractor story was Brian Behlendorf's. He was talking about John Deere's new policy. As Chairman of the EFF Board, he hears many such stories, I'm guessing.
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> D
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>> On Apr 20, 2016, at 8:23 PM, Karl Fogel <kfogel at red-bean.com> wrote:
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>> Alicia Gibb <alicia at oshwa.org> writes:
>>> A big part of the discussion was including things that didn't only
>>> involve software, but data and hardware as well (and sometimes void
>>> of software). Someone (I think Karl) gave examples of the tractor
>>> data that is "leased" from and under the DMCA act, so farmers can no
>>> longer share data across fields. I would love to see a revolt of
>>> farmers developing their own open source hardware tractors from OSE -
>>
>> Minor point: that example was from someone else (wish I could take credit for it, because it's a great example, but it wasn't me!)
>>
>> Totally +1 on the agrarian revolt, of course.
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