On Wed, Jul 30, 2003, Robert Millan wrote: > As for the legal advice, what do you mean? Do you suggest that we hire a > lawyer to advocate in favour of libdvdcss?
I suggest we hire a lawyer to tell us whether we may include libdvdcss in Debian _or not_. This is roughly what we did for the crypto-in-main issue. > In case it is in doubt wether > libdvdcss violates the DMCA, it is still pretty clear to me that the DMCA > can not be (legaly) enforced outside the jurisdiction of the USA. Right. But nothing ensures us that there are no other DMCA-like laws that libdvdcss may be infringing. It is also worth mentioning that most court cases involving DeCSS did not use the DMCA argument at all. > > Anyway, be assured that if I uploaded libdvdcss to the archive at > > this moment, no ftp-master would dare to accept it. I do not want to > > waste their time. > > Nor do I, but how can you assure it? Do you know if the ftp masters have > ever pronounced on this? and do you know if there has been any "rejected" > or "frozen" attempts at uploading libdvdcss? My vlc-css packages (CSS-enabled VLC) were never accepted, and I did upload them to non-US, not main. -- Sam.
