Shawn Walker wrote, On 22/06/07 17:22:
> On 22/06/07, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On 22/06/07, andrewk9 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > 13. DVD playback using non-DVD cartel sanctioned decoder. The use of
>> region codes  to prevent playback in certain regions is against WTO
>> rules and is barrier to fair trade.
>>
>> No. We don't want the legal issues this has. Regardless of your
>> feelings about it, as a US-based organisation there are too many
>> issues surrounding this.
>
> I should note that this does not mean that we cannot make it easy to
> install codecs-of-questionable-legality. See the OpenSolaris codec
> pack as an example:
>
> http://linux.wordpress.com/2007/03/07/opensolaris-codec-pack/

  FYI, the codec-pack is no longer available. There were some well
  founded concerns about its legality, and I did not want to get
  myself into trouble.

  The bright side is that I committed all the patches I wrote for
  building it to the spec-files-extra repository.

  From now on, people can use pkgbuild to build the same package set
  from the spec files. (While we come up with a better - and legal -
  solution).

--
Greetings, alo.
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