Legal Status of libdvdcss

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Tue Feb 21 01:00:13 GMT 2006


Matthew Garrett wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 02:25:05PM +0000, Matthew East wrote:
> 
>> Debian are obviously happy to provide instructions (and a script) for
>> installing it, with a warning
> 
> I think imagining Debian as a single cohesive entity is not necessarily
> the best model. On the other hand, I'm not aware of whether incitement
> to commit copyright infringement is against the law anywhere, so we may
> be able to get away with it.
> 
Then again, inciting someone to use what is considered
copyright-protection-breaking software, but warning people not to use it to
actually _copy_ software can easily be argued not to be inciting copyright
infringment :-)  
-- 
derek




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