Re: Bug#154281: ITP: libdvdcss -- Library to read scrambled DVDs

[jmarant@nerim.net (Jérôme Marant)]

"Mikael Hedin" <micce@debian.org> writes:

> Package: wnpp
> Severity: wishlist
>
> * Package name    : libdvdcss
>   Version         : 1.2.1
>   Upstream Author : Stéphane Borel <stef@via.ecp.fr> and others
> * URL             : http://www.videolan.org/libdvdcss/
> * License         : GPL
>   Description     : Library to read scrambled DVDs
>
> libdvdcss is a portable abstraction library for DVD decryption, it
> provides a simple API to access a DVD device as a block device.

AFAIK, libdvdcss implements DECSS which is a patented algorigthm
that we are not even allowed to ship (even in non-us).

Cheers,

-- 
Jérôme Marant

http://marant.org


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