Sun DReaM Finds Home In IPTV

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday April 14, 2006 @09:57AM from the someone-likes-the-idea dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Register has a story reporting that Sun's DRM will find a home in a Korean IPTV system. From the article: "This week Sun released the source code for two components of DReaM, its DReaM-CAS (Conditional Access System) and DReaMMMI (Mother May I) the underlying mechanism for always asking a central resource for permission to access content. In papers that Sun put out this week it has described both of these processes. DReaMCAS or D-CAS currently only manages access to content in the MPEG-2 format."

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Re:Open Source DRM is like... by Dolda2000 · 2006-04-14 11:35 · Score: 4, Informative

Open source simply means that anyone may look at the code, not necessarily that you have complete rights to do anything with it.
I have no idea whence you got that idea, but the people who coined the term "Open Source" seem to think otherwise. From The Open Source Definition:
3. Derived Works
The license must allow modifications and derived works, and must allow them to be distributed under the same terms as the license of the original software.