- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 19:39:21 +0200
- To: Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com>
- Cc: Andreas Kuckartz <A.Kuckartz@ping.de>, "HTML WG (public-html@w3.org)" <public-html@w3.org>, Adrian Bateman <adrianba@microsoft.com>, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, David Dorwin <ddorwin@google.com>
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Mark Watson <watsonm@netflix.com> wrote: > A Content Decryption Module implementing the 'clearkey' keysystem can be implemented as Open Source. This serves as an existence proof, at least. > > Whether any given content provider believes any given keysystem implementation meets their needs is up to them. Right. So Whether an Open Source CDM can be implemented is not a very interesting question. More interesting questions are: Does Netflix plan to use the proposed feature only with CDMs that can be implemented in Open Source software? Do Microsoft and Google plan to only ship CDMs that can be implemented in Open Source software? (Where "implemented in Open Source software" means that the CDM is implemented in software and is Open Source--not that an Open Source browser calls into a non-Open Source black box.) -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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