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[Adam Porter <1371274@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Because Chromium developers want their browser to be free from digital
restrictions, this bug will stay unfixed for Ubuntu too.

What difference does that make?  It's not "their browser."  Chromium is
free software, and Ubuntu can patch it however it pleases.

What would serve users better: to be able to use this plugin in
Chromium, or to have no choice but to use the Google-built Chrome
package and its proprietary code?

The answer to that question is clear, and therefore the right thing to
do is also clear: apply a patch to Chromium in Ubuntu when a patch
becomes available.  It makes no sense to WONTFIX this bug.  WONTFIX is
an anti-user attitude that doesn't belong in Ubuntu or any other free
software Linux distro.

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Title:
  Unable to use the widevine plugin with chromium

Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  Chromium is unable to use the widevine component from google chrome :
  libwidevinecdmadapter.so and libwidevinecdm.so

  How to reproduce :

  - copy the 2 files the chrome archive in /usr/lib/chromium-browser
  - check chrome://components/
  - Widevine does not appear

  it seems widevine support is only activated when branding=chrome

  as seen in

  
  https://github.com/scheib/chromium/blob/master/third_party/widevine/cdm/widevine_cdm.gyp

  Widevine support would enable EME playing such as Netflix

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
  Package: chromium-browser 37.0.2062.94-0ubuntu0.14.04.1~pkg1042
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-35.62-generic 3.13.11.6
  Uname: Linux 3.13.0-35-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.3
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Thu Sep 18 21:11:17 2014
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-02 (350 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Beta amd64 (20130925.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=fr_FR
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: chromium-browser
  SystemImageInfo: Error: [Errno 2] Aucun fichier ou dossier de ce type: 'system-image-cli'
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-05-31 (109 days ago)
  modified.conffile..etc.default.chromium.browser: [deleted]
  mtime.conffile..etc.chromium.browser.default: 2014-06-01T14:14:23.245932

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