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Re: Bug#156287: Advice on Drip (ITP #156287)




I'll upload Drip to main when its independant of libdvdcss (through
libdvdread), and other technical issues are solved.

As for libdvdcss, see the other thread.

On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 07:02:16AM -0400, Joe Moore wrote:
> Robert Millan said:
> > This is what the DMCA reads:
> >
> > "(2) No person shall [...] import, [...] any technology, product, service,
> > device, component or part thereof,
> 
> [ like Drip+libdvdread+libdvdcss ]
> 
> >
> > Anyway I find this discussion much useless, since the DMCA can't be
> > applied to non-us.
> 
> non-us has traditionally been home to software than can not be _exported_
> from the US, not software that can not be _imported_ into the US.
> 
> (references:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal-0209/msg00002.html
> and more recent discussion on debian-legal which I can't find on the web at
> the moment.)
> 
> --Joe
> 
> 
> 

-- 
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)



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