Am 2006-08-18 21:12:59, schrieb Ben Finney:
> Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > since you can obtaine at any moments a legal individual licence
>
> Really? For any patent, from whomever holds it, in any jurisdiction,
Yes, I was contacting several of them and all
individual licences are arround 500-10000 US$.
5000US$ for the legal use of libdvdss2.
Now imagine you have 100 DVDs bought to 3US$ each...
...then you will have payed effectivly 80US$/DVD.
> for use in any software, for any purpose? The Debian project is
> concerned with all users having all the freedoms in the DFSG for all
> software in Debian.
Since I live in Europe and I can not use libdvdcss2 to VIEW videos
legal, I have ask the European Court of Jusice for arround 5 Month.
Since my DVDs are quiet expensive (50-100 Euro/DVD) a licence
of 5000US$ is inacceptable, if you know, that you can Windows
software for 20 Euro including the CCS licence.
There is probably something wrong!
OK, another Example: I am on the <mplayer-user> list and for
some years I was talking about licencing and they told me, that
the CSS owner do not want to sell a licence to the OSS community.
Not even for 200.000 US$.
Should I guess why? There are many enterprises (specialy one)
which want to drop the OSS stuff... maybe with a donation to
the right person?
The question is now, how does Ubuntu has gotten the Licence?
(Yes I know, Mark is realy rich)
Greetings
Michelle Konzack
Systemadministrator
Tamay Dogan Network
Debian GNU/Linux Consultant
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