[ubuntu-za] DRM and software licensing (was Brainstorm on ideas to get Ubuntu to areas without internet)

[Marius Kruger]

On 8 September 2010 09:03, Raoul Snyman
<raoul.snyman at saturnlaboratories.co.za> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 08:56:08 +0200, Robin Bownes wrote:
> > Why does the Ubuntu installation image not automatically install the
> > necessary bits for playing DVDs, MP3s and the like?
> Because the law says they're not allowed to distribute that stuff without
> paying a license fee for *every copy*.

just submitted this bainstorm idea.
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/25797/
Canonical must sell DVD and MP3 codec licences for Ubuntu
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There should be a very easy way to legally obtain these codecs during
or after installation.
As I understand it, to do this legally in some countries a royalty
licence must be paid for each copy.
So give the user an easy way to choose if they want to pay for that or
not; then either way add the appropriate repositories (apt may need to
be extended to support encryption etc. to support that).

It would also be nice to distribute iso images which includes this,
call it $buntu :P. It must log into ubuntuone on/after installation to
activate it; so you can pay for it if you have not done so already.

Maybe
- this is planned already.
- its a lot of work for little gain :(
- partner with http://www.fluendo.com/ on this.
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BUT, I was told that this is already done, see:
http://shop.canonical.com/index.php?cPath=19

I'm still not convinced that this is simple enough to get it from the
desktop for non-technical users.