canonical to sell proprietary codecs!

claydoh claydoh at midmaine.com
Sun Sep 21 03:02:36 UTC 2008


On Saturday 20 September 2008 7:34:17 pm Scott wrote:
> Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> > w32codecs are illegal.
>
> I'm not a professional in law, but I'm pretty sure it is only illegal in
> certain countries.  I highly doubt w32codecs is illegal in all countries.
>
> --
> Your friend,
> Scott
> http://sgaming.org
>
> Sent to you from a Linux computer using Kubuntu Version 8.04

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntucat/the-legality-or-illegality-of-w32codecs-
and-libdvdcss2/

this piece has some good info, but doesn't  clear it up a lot.

Those of us without any windows licenses at all anywhere are probably where 
this is targeted.
-- 
Clay Weber




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