[debbugs-tracker] bug#34565: closed (ungoogled-chromium may contain Widevine DRM)

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regarding ungoogled-chromium may contain Widevine DRM
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> ungoogled-chromium contains Widevine DRM
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> Mon, 18 Feb 2019 19:44:57 -0800
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> Package: guix
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> Unless I am mistaken, ungoogled-chromium is not removing Widevine DRM
> from upstream Chromium. Guix should remove that if upstream won't, as I
> believe this goes against "the distro must contain no DRM..." in the
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ng0 <address@hidden> writes:

> Marius Bakke transcribed 1.2K bytes:
>> Giovanni Biscuolo <address@hidden> writes:
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>> > Hello,
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>> > maybe Marius Bakke have something interesting to say about his
>> > judgements on this "DRM matter"
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>> > to sum it up: AFAIU for users to be able to use Widevine they must
>> > create a custom package definition _outside_ official Guix channels
>> > *and* download the shared object "libwidevinecdm.so" from Chromium,
>> > installing it "manually" system wide or locally
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>> This analysis is correct.  For DRM to work, the user has to build with
>> "enable_widevine=true", and then somehow obtain 'libwidevinecdm.so' and
>> make the browser use it.
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> Can this bug be closed?

Yes, I am closing this now; thanks for the reminder.

The actual Widevine implementation is not part of Chromium, and the
interfaces for loading it are disabled at build time.

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