Re: Is EME usable regardless of the software/hardware I use ?

On 6/5/2013 12:06 PM, Hugo Roy wrote:
> Le mer. 05/06/13, 11:14, Jeff Jaffe <jeff@w3.org>:
>> On 6/5/2013 10:57 AM, piranna@gmail.com wrote:
>> I've been trying to establish the following points in this discussion.
>>
>> 1. Today there are no W3C policies which would forbid EME from
>> consideration.
>> 2. I accept the fact that one could want such policies.  They could
>> be proposed and even accepted in time.  But, simply, these would be
>> new policies.
>> 3. In terms of freedom to access content without EME - there are
>> competing principles (cf blog post).  I don't denigrate the
>> principled arguments that content should be "free" in a FOSS sense.
>> But there are principles on the other side as well, that we are
>> balancing when we say that we can include EME in the Open Web
>> Platform, but not a proprietary CDM.
> The question of content being “"free" in a FOSS sense” or not is
> completely irrelevant to EME. The question of content being free
> of charge is also irrelevant to EME.
>
> The problem is with EME effectively requiring users to install
> non-free software, because EME is designed to answer needs of
> unfree CDM.
>
Yes, that is what I meant.  Thanks for correcting my expression of this 
idea.

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