Re: Question Concerning Legal Status of Handbrake in the US

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Author: Jens Schüßler
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Subject: Re: Question Concerning Legal Status of Handbrake in the US
* Timothy Patishnock <tpatishnock@???> wrote:
> I work as a multimedia professional for a company producing industrial
> products.
>
> With that being said, I have a question concerning the legal status of
> Handbrake in the US.
>
> While I understand it is under the GPL v2 - which is a non-issue in
> terms of legality - it is currently only available from the
> deb-multimedia.org repositories. As such it does not qualify for the
> Main Debian GNU/Linux repository of software.


Though I can't help you on your legal issue, but Handbrake is in
Experimental main in Debian.

Jens