DRM legal advice

2009-03-04 Thread Jonathan Wiltshire
Hi, I am preparing a package called get-iplayer, and a potential sponsor has asked me to get your opinion before we go further. If you don't already know, the iPlayer is the BBC's online catch-up service for television and radio programmes broadcast in the previous 7 days. Programmes are

Re: DRM legal advice

2009-03-04 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message 20090304093237.ga17...@lupin.powdarrmonkey.net, Jonathan Wiltshire deb...@jwiltshire.org.uk writes get_iplayer (renamed to get-iplayer for Debian naming restrictions) avoids this by fetching programmes through the iPhone channel in reasonable quality and saving them to disk. However,

Re: Apple license and LGPL

2009-03-04 Thread MJ Ray
René Mayorga rmayo...@debian.org wrote: Is this OK?, I can just let this file to stay at upstream tarball? or I should remove it. If it's not used, I'd remove it. I'm confused about its status. If it's used and no-one explains why APSL is LGPL-compatible, I'd ask BOINC whether there was some

Re: DRM legal advice

2009-03-04 Thread MJ Ray
Jonathan Wiltshire deb...@jwiltshire.org.uk wrote: I am preparing a package called get-iplayer, and a potential sponsor has asked me to get your opinion before we go further. I have used get-iplayer on occasion. Thank you to all involved in the third-party debian packages. [...] get_iplayer

Re: DRM legal advice

2009-03-04 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Wed Mar 04 09:32, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: get_iplayer (renamed to get-iplayer for Debian naming restrictions) avoids this by fetching programmes through the iPhone channel in reasonable quality and saving them to disk. However, this also evades the DRM protection so the user is free to

Re: DRM legal advice

2009-03-04 Thread MJ Ray
Anthony W. Youngman deb...@thewolery.demon.co.uk wrote: Not the Debian position, but more the general Free Software attitude of respect other peoples' copyrights ... get-iplayer should implement a technical system whereby it downloads the expiry dates, and auto-deletes the files if the

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2009-03-04 Thread Kellie Brown
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Re: DRM legal advice

2009-03-04 Thread Anthony W. Youngman
In message 49ae6b15.fqybgcvyp1ig7h3c%...@phonecoop.coop, MJ Ray m...@phonecoop.coop writes Anthony W. Youngman deb...@thewolery.demon.co.uk wrote: Not the Debian position, but more the general Free Software attitude of respect other peoples' copyrights ... get-iplayer should implement a

Re: DRM legal advice

2009-03-04 Thread MJ Ray
Anthony W. Youngman deb...@thewolery.demon.co.uk wrote: In message 49ae6b15.fqybgcvyp1ig7h3c%...@phonecoop.coop, MJ Ray m...@phonecoop.coop writes [...] Do the copyright terms of things on iplayer actually have expiry dates, or is that something merely enforced by technical measures on some

Re: Apple license and LGPL

2009-03-04 Thread Francesco Poli
On Wed, 04 Mar 2009 10:21:40 + MJ Ray wrote: [...] Section 7 of http://www.opensource.apple.com/apsl/1.1.txt allows us to pick a later version, so we can use it under the free software APSL 2.0. I don't think the APSL 2.0 is acceptable for main. Last time we discussed this license on

Re: Apple license and LGPL

2009-03-04 Thread MJ Ray
Francesco Poli f...@firenze.linux.it wrote: I don't think the APSL 2.0 is acceptable for main. [...] Please see the following thread http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/06/msg00545.html for all the details. So, to summarise: - it contaminates other software (DFSG 9) in patent-afflicted