Legal Status of libdvdcss

[Sebastian Dröge]

Am Montag, den 20.02.2006, 18:39 +0530 schrieb Rohan Dhruva:
> 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 ? 

see Colin's answer

> And, take the case of debian. The k3b, or totem it provides is mp3
> enabled, whereas you need to install "k3b-mp3" in ubuntu. Why so ?

This is to allow shipping of k3b on CD. We definitely can't ship a mp3
decoder on CD but it's "ok" to have it somewhere in main

Bye
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