[Ldsoss] DVD Player Software

[Steven H. McCown]

Okay, that makes sense.  So, how does Linux get away with including a DVD
player and still providing the source?  Even if it is built outside the US,
some of the distro companies (e.g., Novell) are within the US.  Presumably
they would be under the same rules.

 

Thanks,

 

Steve

 

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From: Tom Welch [mailto:welchtc at ldschurch.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 7:50 AM
To: smccown at earthlink.net; LDS Open Source Software
Subject: Re: [Ldsoss] DVD Player Software

 

There are patents with associated licensing costs protecting the commercial
DVD codecs and so if you find one, it may not be "legal" or it may not play
commercial DVDs.  This is why you don't really see a lot of "free" DVD
players.

Tom

Steven H. McCown wrote: 

Does anyone know of some good and widely used open source DVD Player
Software that is available on Windows?  

 

Thanks,

 

Steve

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