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They should host the software in France, like VideoLan. https://www.videolan.org/legal.html https://www.videolan.org/legal.html >>> Are libdvdcss and libaacs
by user5994461 6y ago
They should host the software in France, like VideoLan.
https://www.videolan.org/legal.html https://www.videolan.org/legal.html
>>> Are libdvdcss and libaacs legal? libdvdcss is a library that can find and guess keys from a DVD in order to decrypt it. This method is authorized by a French law decision CE 10e et 9e soussect., 16 juillet 2008, n° 301843 on interoperability.
>>> Patents and codec licenses. Neither French law nor European conventions recognize software as patentable (see French section below). Therefore, software patents licenses do not apply on VideoLAN software.
- zoobab 6y ago"Neither French law nor European conventions recognize software as patentable" Wait for the Unitary Patent to come to reality: https://ffii.org/donate-now-to-save-europe-from-software-patents-says-ffii/ https://ffii.org/donate-now-to-save-europe-from-software-pat... French courts won't have a say anymore.
- user5994461 6y agoThere is very little explanation in this article, don't understand what this is about. Seems to be hinting toward something coming up in German law, that would not be applicable in other EU countries. The EU is very fragmented, every country mostly applies its own laws.
- zoobab 6y agoThe software patent directive has been replaced by another attempt to achieve the same, via a central patent court for Europe: https://ffii.org/ffii-oppose-the-third-attempt-to-impose-software-patents-in-europe-via-the-upc/ https://ffii.org/ffii-oppose-the-third-attempt-to-impose-sof...
- Mindwipe 6y agoFrance has an anti-circumvention law.
- user5994461 6y agoThe anti-circumvention law from France (and Europe) is rendered null by a variety of other laws, notably the one on interoperability. See decision 301843 https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/ceta/id/CETATEXT000019216315/ https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/ceta/id/CETATEXT000019216315/