Dan: > Yes. The Ogle player is planned for implementation as part of Indiana by > Dermot McCluskey. He doesn't currently have a target integration, but > supports our integration of this now.
The Ogle player is licensed under the GPL. This means that you cannot link any any non-free code. Since DVD's (even unencrypted ones) are encoded in MPEG2 formats, you cannot distribute Ogle with MPEG2 support even if you have a license to distribute MPEG2. The Ogle player would require a GPL exception to allow distributing it with support for MPEG2 codecs. Is your plan to only support unencrypted DVD's that are encoded in free video/audio media formats, such as theora? I don't think any such DVD's exist, unless you make them yourself. It seems we should be integrating a DVD player that can be distributed without violating GPL. Further, I notice in your OSR (8050) that you didn't highlight any patent issues in the Engineering section, question #9. Isn't it fairly well known that DVD technologies are heavily encumbered. I would think we should be highlighting that a careful look at patents is required in a case like this. No? Brian
