On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 12:21:22AM +0200, Sam Hocevar wrote: > > > $ ldd /usr/bin/drip | grep libdvdcss > > libdvdcss.so.2 => /usr/lib/libdvdcss.so.2 (0x4019a000) > > Linking drip with libdvdcss is utterly useless since drip does not > use any libdvdcss function.
Ok, I understand. I'll find it out when I get the other problems sorted out (depending on the results, the linker issue might not be relevant) > > My understanding is that Drip being linked against libdvdcss is illegal > > in the USA, so a solution could be to put it in non-us. > > Grmbl, please read carefully my first message in this thread. Drip > has nothing to do with libdvdcss, only libdvdread uses libdvdcss. Whatever. The fact is that when we put Drip, libdvdread and libdvdcss together we obtain what what the DMCA calls a "circumvention device for copyright protection technology". This may happen in non-us, but must not happen in main. -- 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)