Re: mpeg4 and other proprietary formats

["Kristian Erik Hermansen" <user=152@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Dec 15, 2007 10:12 AM, Matthew Gillen <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> Well, there's the technical problem of "if I don't care about breaking 
> the law, how would I do it?".  That is the only part that Ubuntu makes 
> easier.  AFAIK, Ubuntu has not paid for redistribution licenses for 
> media codecs. 

And I don't believe that Canonical would ever pay the fees for such codecs... 

> Why do you think they don't host libdvdcss?  Because there's a technical 
> problem, like it would take up too much space on their servers?  No, 
> it's because there's a /legal/ problem with redistributing it in most 
> countries.  I think their redistribution of the other codecs is just as 
> questionable (if it weren't, then Debian and Fedora wouldn't have a 
> problem distributing them either). 

I thought this legal issue was obvious, but forgive me for not stating 
it as such.  I will not go off on another diatribe about legal issues 
regarding codecs and/or libdvdcss.  This topic has been going on since 
1999 and is nothing new... 
-- 
Kristian Erik Hermansen 
"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious." 

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