On Tue, 2003-08-12 at 05:19, Sam Hocevar wrote: > 2. If Lindows are respecting the GPL, it means that libdvdcss is > shipped with no additional restriction. Which means we just have > to download libdvdcss from them, and re-distribute it. It's a > magical world.
This is interesting. I was about to write a retort that this wasn't so, but it seems that Section 7 of the GPL implies that if Lindows.com can't offer the same rights to everybody, they can't distribute the library at all. I suspect that Lindows.com hasn't considered or noticed this. In any case, I have access to the Lindows.com warehouse. However I don't currently have an installation of LindowsOS; neither do I have the will to pay $4.95 to get the stupid thing. This is all sort of moot in my case anyways, as I suspect that libdvdcss doesn't contravene any laws in my locale (Canada).
