DRM in openmoko kernel

Sean Moss-Pultz sean at openmoko.com
Thu Mar 29 13:23:47 CEST 2007


On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 10:30 +0200, Ralf Ewers wrote:
> Does anybody know if there are any plans to implement DRM in the
> Openmoko Kernel? As far as I know this should be possible but not very
> supported by the open souce community because of its closed source
> nature. I think that DRM in a device like the Neo1973 will have an
> impact on the sales of the phone.

As in negative impact? ;-)

> Does anybody have any opinions about this topic or know about other
> open source projects/kernels that implement DRM? Or does anybody know
> something about the possibilites or unpossibilities of implementing
> it? 

Well, we (OpenMoko) won't do it ourselves. But naturally you're free to
try. 

-Sean





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