Re: Legality of .DEBS in Medialinux.
First of all thank you!
[Marco: The primary function of this list is to discuss licenses and
the legal ramifications of those licenses. As none (or almost none) of
us are lawyers, we cannot give legal advice. The following is not
legal advice either.]
Sorry for expressing myself in the wrong way. I just asked a point to
the right direction...
Mahesh T. Pai told me to look at the Debian Policy Manual, wich I found
so much interesting
and wich I'm currently reading.
There may be a legal risk. I have no idea about Italy's laws, but
there remains a very real possibility that libdvdcss will be
actionable under the DMCA in the US.
So most of all Knoppix Based Distro's are on charge for this in the US?
Will they come to me and ask for money?
And if I have to distributer the source, then Knoppix itself it
infringing this?
Anyway I was thinking of removing the dvd libraries by myself, cause I
can't figure out how
it is going to go...
As far as we know, packages in main are legal to distribute pretty
much everywhere. You may need to remove the encryption parts in
certain countries, although I don't think that applies to Italy.
Still the server is in the US, so I think this applies.
However, as most of us are not attorneys, and as such, not allowed to
practice law in Italy, you should probably consider approaching
someone knowledgeable in the laws of your locality who can give you
more detailed and accurate information regarding the laws and how they
interact with software.
Sorry, but I just asked.
I just wanted to know if there was a list that would go beyond the
official main, contrib and non-free distinctions
to help people like to me not to have to pay for a lawyer... ;-)
It seems that my next CD is going to be more GPL compliant, anyway.
At least is what I understand from your answers,
Thank you again,
Marco Ghirlanda
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