Re: Advice on an almost public domain package

2004-02-06 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 01:04:19PM -0500, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: Not all jurisdictions recognize the ability of authors to put their works into the public domain. I don't believe this to be accurate. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ |

Re: Fwd: [Politech] California DeCSS case eventually, finally, over [ip]

2004-02-06 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 09:36:49PM -0800, Ben Reser wrote: On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 01:23:08PM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: Looks like good news for having DVD playing in Debian someday... This decision only removes the trade secret issue. The DMCA issue remains. This is the

Re: Advice on an almost public domain package

2004-02-06 Thread Måns Rullgård
Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 01:04:19PM -0500, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote: Not all jurisdictions recognize the ability of authors to put their works into the public domain. I don't believe this to be accurate. Accurate or not, I doubt the author would

Re: Advice on an almost public domain package

2004-02-06 Thread Glenn Maynard
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 10:18:40AM +0100, Måns Rullgård wrote: Accurate or not, I doubt the author would sue anyone in one of those places for using the code. That doesn't matter. His heirs may. -- Glenn Maynard

Re: Fwd: [Politech] California DeCSS case eventually, finally, over [ip]

2004-02-06 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004, Andrew Suffield wrote: Note that we're not really interested in decss, and libdvdcss is the important one, so however this plays out it needs to result in a decision that means libdvdcss is okay too (getting off on a technicality is no good). I'm not sure that the

Re: Fwd: [Politech] California DeCSS case eventually, finally, over [ip]

2004-02-06 Thread Ben Reser
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 07:41:44AM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: Note that we're not really interested in decss, and libdvdcss is the important one, so however this plays out it needs to result in a decision that means libdvdcss is okay too (getting off on a technicality is no good). I'm

Re: Fwd: [Politech] California DeCSS case eventually, finally, over [ip]

2004-02-06 Thread Ben Reser
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 10:49:55AM +0100, Sam Hocevar wrote: Especially since Lindows is distributing libdvdcss with its DVD player and calls it a licensed commercial decryption codec, which probably means the DVDCCA is aware of libdvdcss and even allows its redistribution (under the GPL,

Re: Fwd: [Politech] California DeCSS case eventually, finally, over [ip]

2004-02-06 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 10:49:55AM +0100, Sam Hocevar wrote: On Fri, Feb 06, 2004, Andrew Suffield wrote: Note that we're not really interested in decss, and libdvdcss is the important one, so however this plays out it needs to result in a decision that means libdvdcss is okay too