Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 25 Sep 2006 13:11:27 +0200 (MEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: GPLv3 Position Statement |
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> > What is the stance of the developer team / kernel maintainers on > DRM, Trusted Computing and software patents? Does the refusal to > adopt GPLv3 as is mean that these two are more likely to emerge as > supported functionality in the Linux kernel? Are there any moral > boundaries Linux kernel developers will not cross concerning > present and new U.S. laws on technology? Are they willing to put > that in writing? Will Linux support HD-DVD and BluRay by being > slightly more tolerant to closed source binary blobs? What about > the already existant problems with the Content Scrambling System > for DVD's?
I agree with Neil here. Supporting HD-DVD/BluRay/Other will probably "as simple" as integrating DVD support into the CD-only source code back when DVDs where introduced was.
I suppose that HD-DVD drives will use the same ATAPI/SATA commands as DVD drives do (plus/minus the regular extras). In other words: Data read from the drive arrives as bytes that are ready to be parsed according to struct toc / whatever. There is no kernel-level translation required right now (at least it looks that way), and to watch a CSS-encrypted video, you need some extra userspace software to do so. I do not see why HD-DVD/BR should suddenly require a kernel-level CSS/Other decryptor... or did I miss something and Windows had a kernel-level deCSS all the time?
> Finally, i hope that the wishes of the community of people that have only > contributed to the kernel a few times but whose combined work may equal that > of the core developers, are taken into account; as well as the wishes of > the massive amount of users of the Linux kernel. > > How about a public poll?
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