Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Well if you're going for a widely-known acronym outside Gentoo-land it'd be
> decss: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS
>
> I've always wondered why that wasn't used in the first place (not that it
> helps now; just found css odd for the same reason as others.)

Because DeCSS and libdvdcss are not the same thing. It's like calling
"acrobat" the pdf USE flag: yeah Acrobat produces and read PDF, but it's
not Acrobat you're enabling.

libdvdcss uses part of the code of DeCSS to do its work, but it is not
DeCSS proper.

-- 
Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò
http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/

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