Re: DVDs - err what gives?

[amacater@galactic.demon.co.uk (Andrew M.A. Cater)]

On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 09:23:34PM +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-12-12 at 19:54 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> > Regulations prevent distribution = non-free
> 
> True, it's non-free by Debian standards. But I still would like to make
> a distinction between blatantly non-free software, like the w32codecs,
> and stuff licensed as free software, like libdvdcss.
> 
At one time, the libdvdread package contained a shell script that would
download the code from chalmers.se, compile and produce a .deb.

For myself, I'd still rather have that functionality than depend on M. 
Marillat, excellent though his site is.

Andy