Breezy mirrormax repo?

Dennis Kaarsemaker dennis at kaarsemaker.net
Sun Sep 25 12:21:10 UTC 2005


On zo, 2005-09-25 at 12:35 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 25.09.2005, 12:13 +0200 schrieb Dennis Kaarsemaker:
> > On zo, 2005-09-25 at 11:49 +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> > 
> > > w32codecs are highly illegal
> > 
> > Is that so? After talking to Diego from mplayer, I got the impression
> > that these codec packs and libdvdcss are not illegal. Only DeCSS is (for
> > which ubuntu ships an installer!!).
> so tell me how do you license a package that contains proprietary codecs
> form a bunch of different distributors that dont even offer to be
> installed together in one package under a well known proprietary OS ?
> every single codec in this package has its own distribution license,
> some of them even exclude districution together with another codec...
> it would be possible to distribute each single codec in this package
> with the permission of the license owner indeed, but there is no way to
> distribute them in a package like that.
> 
> there is a reason why ubuntu doesnt ship it (even in mutiverse) and
> there is a reason why not even the unofficial backports can ship it
> anymore...
> 
> if you can convince microsoft, apple and realplayer (and whichever other
> company has codecs in there) give us their their ok to ship these in one
> package with the respective codecs of the concurring company, we'll
> happily ship it. but before that happens, the RIAA will start to
> distribute their films and music CDs for free in p2p networks i guess.
> 
> you simply violate the licenses of these codecs which makes it illegal
> to distribute.

*spreading* it may be illegal, but *having it* not, your original mail
did not make any distinction between that :)

And neither having or spreading libdvdcss seems to be illegal.
-- 
Dennis K.
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