Legal Status of libdvdcss

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 06:39:23PM +0530, Rohan Dhruva wrote:
> Even with these problems, i am very surpirzed as to how distributions like
> elive and arch linux can distribute libdvdcss so openly. Mepis and slackware
> too have mp3 support, but no libdvdcss. How come these "free" distro's can
> provide mp3 playback, but not ubuntu / fedora / opensuse ?

It's not worth suing a free distribution with not much money. It is
worth suing a distribution backed by substantial amounts of money.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]