Hello all, I'm considering packaging up a small program called dvdbackup, but I'm ambivalent about it for several reasons. The program is designed to extract all the files on a video dvd, and place them in a heirarchy suitable for use with mkisofs and dvdrecord. As of yet, it does not split the image into smaller ones, suitable for burning onto 2 discs (which is what most people would have to do, unless they want to use transcode or something to downscale the video, so that it fits onto one dvd -r). The author is working on this, and plans to release the split functions (writing new .IFO's and the like) as libraries.
The reason I'm writing is because I wonder about two things - the program itself is only a single .c file, about 15K compressed, and I wonder if there is any point in packaging up something this small and easy to compile. Granted, it's not some 4 line shell script, but it still seems to push the lower bounds of reasonable. The second thing is the legality of this. There are, I know, issues around the DMCA and friends that govern what you are allowed to do with dvd's, at least in some uncivilized countries, and I don't know if a program that's sole purpose is to extract stuff off of dvd's will be redistributable by Debian. I know that apps like transcode are not in Debian, although I don't know if this is is the reason. Anybody familiar with this terrain feel like commenting? Thanks, -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ,''`. Stephen Gran | | : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | `. `' Debian user, admin, and developer | | `- http://www.debian.org | -----------------------------------------------------------------
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