Why are (unencrypted) DVD players forbidden?

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Jul 5 05:43:03 UTC 2005


Alexandre Oliva (aoliva at redhat.com) said: 
> So what's the excuse to not include such nice software as Ogle and
> libdvdread (but not libdvdcss)?

MPEG2 (and AC3, IIRC) are both patented. Which makes it pretty
much a moot point.

Bill




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