On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 09:14:54AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 03:52:51PM +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > DeCSS is a utility for stripping Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) tags from an > > HTML page. That's all it does. It has no relationship whatsoever to > > encryption, copy protection, movies, software freedom, oppressive industry > > cartels, Web site witch hunts, or any other bad things that could get you > > in trouble. > > Is this a political statement, or are there other reasons why this > software would be useful? (I can't think of any reason why castrating > an HTML document of recent vintage in this manner would be useful in its > own right.)
It is political, but I won't upload it if there's no practical usability in it. I thought that if FreeBSD has a port of DeCSS [1] maybe we should have a package in Debian too. Does anyone have more comments on the usability of DeCSS? [1] http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=decss&stype=all -- Robert Millan "[..] but the delight and pride of Aule is in the deed of making, and in the thing made, and neither in possession nor in his own mastery; wherefore he gives and hoards not, and is free from care, passing ever on to some new work." -- J.R.R.T, Ainulindale (Silmarillion)
