That's a fairly negative reply. I didn't believe anyone was 'argung', indeed I'm sorry I mentioned the legal aspects at all. Nonetheless your solution is similar to that I suggested: i.e. simply disable the functionality and make it reasonably simple for the user to renable it. Just put legal warnings and diclaimers next to those sections that are worryiing to you. Then you satisfy everyone's legal concerns and the responsibility for enabling or disabling certain fetaures lies with the user and with what is considered legal in their country.
If that sounded like I was arguing with anyone I'm sorry. I genuinely thought what we were engaged in was a philosophical debate. As for reporting myself to the police, I think the biggest problem I would face is that they would just laugh at me. The conversation would at least be extremely bizzar. I doubt any of them really know what Linux is Anyway, I'm happy to let the subject drop, as I think its silly it has even come this far. I think pretty much all of us can agree on the ansolute supidity of the current sistuation with regard to the legal status of playing back certain types of media on Linux. Whether you feel the concequenes are likely to be real or not, it is a bizzar situation that isn't likely to get any better any time soon. I don't have any aswers for it either, sorry. At least none beyond what the majority of Linux users and developers are doing, which is to dismiss it as not very important. If you feel it necessary to do otherwise, that is entirely your perogative. Q ----- Original Message ----- From: "Krister Lagerstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2003 7:17 PM Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] Re: Legal issues > > "OK, let me try to explain some things." > > > > No need to explain. I fully understand. But I think we simply disagree > > on how urgent or significant it is. I think the chances of anyone > > comming after a small obscure (if you will forgive me from saying so) > > linux application suite, are minimum in the extreme. > > The current solution has the legally questionable modules disabled by > default, and the user has to manually enable them if it is legal where he > lives. > > This would be similar to most cars today, where the amount of emissions > and horsepowers can be set in firmware to comply with local regulations. > Yes, you can actually "download horsepowers" to your car! Tampering with > Freevo might make it illegal where you live, just like tampering with your > car engine would. > > You might think that the Freevo developers should assume the legal risk of > distributing the software, due to the "minimum risks" involved. I don't > agree with this. You've made your point that the features are valuable, > but please stop arguing for other people to take personal legal risks that > they are not comfortable with. This is not helpful in any way. > > Instead, if you'd like to help, please instead work on independently > producing and distributing a runtime that has the features that you think > should be in there. > > If you're not technically capable, you can also put your money where your > mouth is and force a legal precedent. You can do this by reporting > yourself to the local authorities for watching DVDs on Linux using an > MPlayer that you downloaded and compiled yourself. Or even make a backup > of a DVD you own... > > / Krister > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including > Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. > Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. > http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 > _______________________________________________ > Freevo-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01 _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
