Usual "forbidden items" explanation

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Tim wrote:
> I've never got the applications that FC4 tried to use to play a DVD, by
> default, to work.

Not surprising -- they're not meant to work for most DVDs. Supplying the
code to read most DVD's CSS may well be a violation of the USA's DCMA,
and the MPEG2 encoding is patented. So Fedora *can't* legally supply
open-source programs to play most DVDs. (I believe that FC4's programs
can play a few DVDs, though, so Fedora aims to be compatible with
those).

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ForbiddenItems#head-81ea9196bc459b5f7827b58e9c0e70d3631c18f0

James.

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