libdvdcss in RPM Fusion ?

[Michael Cronenworth]

On 07/08/2016 12:59 PM, Xavier Bachelot wrote:
> The reasoning is VideoLAN is a French organization and libdvdcss is
> legal in France.
> Seehttp://www.videolan.org/legal.html
>
> Starting from that point, the first question to answer to be able to
> distribute libdvdcss in RPM Fusion is which laws do apply to RPM Fusion.
> As all (?) of the servers are hosted in France, I believe the French law
> applies and thus it should be safe. But indeed, that is just what I
> understand from RPM Fusion infrastructure and I might be wrong.
>
> Second question is, do the people that run the RPM Fusion infra and thus
> might be considered liable for the distributed content accept the
> potential legal risk, which is pretty low if French laws apply, but is
> still non-null. Also, just like I'm unsure where the servers are
> located, I'm unsure of the Infra head count and names.
>
> I'll reach out to VideoLAN as soon as we have answers to the above
> questions.
> Also, once the above are answered, we can then talk about how the RPM
> Fusion contributors feel about libdvdcss, but my (biased) feeling is
> most of current contributors are ok . However, there have been some
> people that were advert to having libdvdcss in RPM Fusion in the past. I
> don't know who they are, what were their exact reasoning, if they are
> still active or not and if they've changed their mind. That's why I was
> calling especially for opinions against distributing libdvdcss.

Nicolas, can you share your thoughts on this?