On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 9:17 am, in message <200508242317.39937.andjoh@rydsbo.net>, andjoh@rydsbo.net wrote: On Wednesday 24 August 2005 22:46, Andreas Girardet wrote: We cannot legally redistribute the binaries or even advertise it on opensuse.org as this is illegal in Germany.
Is that definite? packman won't host decss, but they seem to have no
problems telling people where to find it, and even providing a script for easy
download and compile
That is the info from SUSE directly at the beginning of this thread. We cannot mention it on our website.
If Windows is allowed to produce such players, how could we as SUSE
do
that? There surely must be a way to pay whoever owns the patents some $$ and include such a player at least in the boxed set version of SUSE? I think that such a legal player is desperately needed in SUSE. I would be happy to pay a premium for it.
It has been discussed many times
When and where? I must have missed that discussion. Andreas