regions and legalities

[Diego Biurrun]

On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 07:05:02PM -0700, Jonathan Locke wrote:
> i'm not sure if this is the right list for this question, but if it's not
> maybe someone knows what list i should post to.  i'm an open source author
> (jakarta regexp, wicket) and i'm starting up a small company and we want to
> use videolan in our project to play dvds (in an applet in a web browser,
> which means i'm interested in finding a way to help the java bindings for
> videolan along somehow).  but we want to respect the current interpretation
> of the law as much as we can.

Since there is no such thing as "the law", it is impossible to answer
your question.  Different countries have different laws.  You only have
to care about the law of the country you live in and/or do business
with.  Furthermore, laws vary wildly.  For example, in Switzerland CSS
is forbidden because country-based restriction schemes are illegal...

Diego

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