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Re: Missing source in firefox-esr: EME module



On Thu, 4 Jul 2019 13:13:26 +0800 Paul Wise wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 9:38 AM Mihai Moldovan wrote:
> 
> > I wonder why no one brought it up yet, but here we go: IMHO,
> > downloading pre-defined proprietary software should completely
> > be disabled/removed in Firefox and the proprietary Widevine module
> > be properly packaged as a package in non-free - with at most a
> > Suggests dependency in the firefox(-esr) package. The nag bar might
> > tell people to install this additional package.
> 
> The Widevine license does not allow redistribution.
[...]

Good point.

Then, the strategy could be similar to [flashplugin-nonfree]:
a package (in Debian contrib) that automatically downloads and install
the non-free module from the upstream distributor, and installs it...

[flashplugin-nonfree]: <https://packages.debian.org/sid/flashplugin-nonfree>


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