Ian Stirling <[email protected]> wrote at 17:42 on 2010-01-22:

>> a) ignore the licensing terms of the open source DVB stacks;
>> b) reverse-engineer the decoding tables;
>> c) obtain the tables from the BBC but breach the non-disclosure terms; or
>> d) release a box which doesn't support FVHD
>
> There is a third alternative.
> B) obtain the decoded tables from a third party in a country where this  
> decryption is not illegal.

Or use the usual open source DVB stack, read the raw EPG stream into a
closed source userspace blob and de-huff it there with licensed
tables? The LinuxTv stack appears to be under GPLv2, so no GPLv3 "keys
with the source" worries.

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