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Update On The Jon Johansen Trial
nordicfrost writes "The trial against Jon Johansen goes on. Today, John Hoy of the DVD CCA was examined by phone by the defense and the prosecutor in Oslo. We have set up a page to follow the main events in the trial here, in English. The documentation of evidence, and the fact that Hoy didn't answer the phone when the court called, delayed the trial so the final proceedings may not be finished before Monday afternoon." Update: 12/12 23:50 GMT by T : This wasn't really a Science story ...
"I speak English,Spanish, Portequese, and a smattering of french. Born and bred in the US."
And where did you learn "Poertquese"? In Poerteuqal?
There IS a country next to Spain called Portugal where they speak Portugese. Is that what you were referring to?
"Overall, I think the livid-dev mailing list shows Johansen was trying to contribute to Linux (and FreeBSD) and shared code with Derek Fawcus"
And the article say this: So Jon redeclared the GPL. You aren't obligated to publish your modification in the public, you just give them to the original author. And if you are not nice to him (and give him something), you get nothing. Nice try.
From: "Jon Johansen"
Subject: Re: [Livid-dev] DeCSS 1.1b has been released
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 23:36:03 +0200
We would never release the source to everyone. It has been released to Derek who knows how to handle it, and when to release which parts of it. I trust him, and I am sure he will release what's needed, at the most convenient point. If you have trouble with that, then go reverse engineer css yourself.
Oh, this guy really wanted to help the linux community? How? Releasing binary only module for CSS decoding? Or how should the linux community use his CSS hack without the source?