Re: Is DivX legal in USA?

[jfm2@club-internet.fr]

Roger Dingledine a écrit :
> 
> On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 03:48:37PM +0200, jfm2@club-internet.fr wrote:
> > I am perhaps confusing it with that program who allowed to play
> > DVDs on Linux but I am not sure divx (www.divx.com but there is an
> > opensource version for Linux) is legal in USA.  Since I don't want
> > Roger having the same fate than Dmitry Sklyarov I cannot include
> > DivX until I am sure it is legal in USA.
> 
> Well, I just grabbed a linux zip file from www.divx.com, and it appears
> quite legal.
> 
> However, the license.txt that comes with it says that we don't have the
> right (among others) to distribute the software.
> 

I think the version at www.projectmayo.org can be distributed.  

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