Re: What is the "open web" ?

> >> Since the EME spec doesn't specify the CDMs, someone could certainly
> >> create an open CDM (for whatever definition of open they prefer) and
> >> EME would work with that.
> >
> > This is a dubious statement.
> 
> Why? 

I referred to the bit: “for whatever definition of open they
prefer” (I thought it was obvious from the following sentence).
Don't know if "dubious" is really the word I was looking for
though, excuse my French. But I just wanted to emphasise there's
no debate about what's “open source” or not in the context of
software.  This is very much established.

> There's a trivial existence proof in the clear key CDM. I see no
> reason why there could not be others.
>
> As I said, whether and to whom such CDMs would be useful is a
> different question.
> 

I think the two questions are not that separate. What does EME
solve, what is it designed for? What would clear key systems
really gain from this?

If clear key CDM in the context of EME are absolutely useless, it
is a strong hint that EME is actually designed for closed-source
CDM.

> >
> > The definition of what is referred to as “open” in the context of
> > software is very well defined by two bodies (amongst others)
> >
> > - The Open Source Initiative
> > - the Free Software Foundation
> >
> > There are other orgs, but these definitions define the same thing.
> >
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> > FSFE Legal Team, Deputy Coordinator, www.fsfe.org/legal
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> >
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Received on Wednesday, 5 June 2013 14:20:04 UTC