On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Steven H. McCown wrote:
Okay, that makes sense. So, how does Linux get away with including a DVD player and still providing the source? Even if it is built outside the US, some of the distro companies (e.g., Novell) are within the US. Presumably they would be under the same rules.
As I understand it, the player is included with the distro, but not the library used to decode the DVD. You can use the player to watch unencoded DVDs. Same story for MP3 players. Fedora Core provides the XMMS media player, but not the library to decode MP3 files.
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