GNU bug report logs - #34565
ungoogled-chromium may contain Widevine DRM

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Jason Self <j <at> jxself.org>

Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019 05:28:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Marius Bakke <mbakke <at> fastmail.com>
To: Giovanni Biscuolo <g <at> xelera.eu>, Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
Cc: 34565 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#34565: ungoogled-chromium contains Widevine DRM
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019 15:48:51 +0100

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Giovanni Biscuolo <g <at> xelera.eu> writes:

> Hello,
>
> maybe Marius Bakke have something interesting to say about his
> judgements on this "DRM matter"

[...]

> 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

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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