On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 5:41 AM Francesco Poli wrote: > Then, the strategy could be similar to [flashplugin-nonfree]: > a package (in Debian contrib) that automatically downloads and install > the non-free module from the upstream distributor, and installs it...
IIRC the Debian maintainers of Firefox are now Mozilla employees. I speculate that Mozilla has a contract with Google about how they bring Widevine to Firefox users. I speculate that a downloader package might not comply with that contract. I speculate that Mozilla would not be willing to deviate from that contract for Firefox upstream since Firefox users worldwide would lose access to Widevine and to content they expect to work. I speculate that, due to the contract, modifying Firefox in Debian to use a downloader package for Widevine might not be allowed under Firefox's trademark license. That said, it sounds like a download package could divert the Firefox binaries to a script that sets the MOZ_GMP_PATH environment variable to the location for Widevine. That might conflict with the gcm-sources I mentioned in an earlier mail though, depends on what order the environment variable and the gcm-sources are loaded in. https://wiki.mozilla.org/GeckoMediaPlugins -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise