Debian Bug report logs - #531221
okular: Arbitrarily enforces DRM by default

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Package: okular; Maintainer for okular is Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers <[email protected]>; Source for okular is src:okular (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: John Goerzen <[email protected]>

Date: Sun, 31 May 2009 00:12:04 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: patch, wontfix

Found in version kdegraphics/4:4.2.2-2

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John Goerzen writes:
> 1) Remove the DRM feature entirely

Please don't call it DRM.  It's just advisory locking.  IMHO not enabling
it or omitting it entirely has no legal implications.

(I think it should be off by default with an option to turn it on but
that's just my irrelevant opinion.  I don't use the package.)
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John Hasler




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