Concern about libdvdcss distribution (Re: (My last) bits from the DPL)

2015-04-17 Thread henrich
Hi,

 On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 04:47:19PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
 
  Libdvdcss and ZFS soon in Debian?
  =
  
  We received legal advice from Software Freedom Law Center about the
  inclusion of libdvdcss and ZFS in Debian, which should unblock the
  situation in both cases and enable us to ship them in Debian soon.

To distribute some mechanism to avoid copy protection such as DRM is 
illegal in Japanese law (Unfair Competition Prevention Act) since 2012.

It means that putting libdvdcss package into Debian repository causes 
problems in Japan, and most of organization that provides Debian mirror 
will _stop_ mirroring for Debian. Maybe libdvdcss is okay in other area, 
but not here in Japan.


So please, don't take mirrors away from Japan...

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Regards,

 Hideki Yamane



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Re: (My last) bits from the DPL

2015-04-16 Thread Adam Majer
On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 04:47:19PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:

 Libdvdcss and ZFS soon in Debian?
 =
 
 We received legal advice from Software Freedom Law Center about the
 inclusion of libdvdcss and ZFS in Debian, which should unblock the
 situation in both cases and enable us to ship them in Debian soon.

Hello,

Could this legal advice be posted to debian-legal or elsewhere in
public?

Thanks,
Adam

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ad...@zombino.com


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