The illegality of playing DVDs on Linux

[Alan Johnson]

On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Benjamin Scott <dragonhawk at gmail.com>wrote:

>  I don't know what the terms of the licensing agreements for this
> stuff are.  I wonder if someone could buy a license for a FOSS
> project?
>

Maybe, but I'm betting the license structure is on a per
user/install/machine/cpu/core/DIMM/something-more-absurd basis.  In other
words, the upstream agreement surely requires tracking distribution and send
money upstream, which is why Dell can do it without much effort: sell a PC
with Ubuntu pre-installed, pay the patent fee just like they do with all the
other crap the preload on windows.
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