Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3959 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The 03.01.03 at 00:08, Tom Emerson wrote:

> net reveals there is both a "libdvdcss" and "libdvdcss2" -- without the "2"
> [...]
>    1) are these "libraries" interchangable?  (do they provide the same
> "function")
>    2) if so, is one "deCSS" based and the other "not"?  (or are they both
> deCSS based and one group simply isn't saying so...) [of course, if you'd
> rather not say...]

Those are not the real names of the libraries, which are originally
distributed in source code form as something like libdvdcss-1.2.2. So, the
question about the two compiled libraries been equivalent or not should be
answered by the packager.

I have the suspicion that it can be given as source considering it as
experimental software, for study use or something similar. I have even
seen some programs that explicitly forbide distribution in binary form.

-- 
Cheers,
       Carlos Robinson