Greetings to all

[R. Wood]

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Allegedly, on Fri, Oct 12, 2007 at 11:00:44PM -0700, Corey Burger stated:
> On 10/12/07, helane wrote:
> > also are libdvdcss2 and w32codecs legal in canada? or as us not
> > completely legal to use in ubuntu...
> 
> Yes for libdvdcss2 (they only violate patents) and no for
> w32codecs(this is completely illegal everywhere, as it is direct copys
> of the actual code written by Real, MS, etc.)
> 
> Corey

Hi,

IANAL but I don't think Corey is either :-)  I would be very careful
about making such categorical statements as above (e.g. "w32codecs [...]
this is completely illegal everywhere") unless you are *very* sure of
the *complete* legal details of what you are claiming.

I can understand that there may be some legal issues with 'w32codecs',
but to claim that it is "completely illegal everywhere" seems like an
exagerrated statement to me frankly.  I expect the actual status of this
collection of software is more complex than the above statement
suggests.

My $0.02,
Have Fun with GNU/Linux,
Raymond
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