libdvdcss in RPM Fusion ?

[Nicolas Chauvet]

2016-09-01 21:38 GMT+02:00 Ben Rosser <rosser.bjr at gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 12:56 PM, Xavier Bachelot <xavier at bachelot.org>
> wrote:
>>
>> On 23/07/2016 08:27, Michael Cronenworth wrote:
>>>
>>> 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?
>>
>>
>> Now that the summer vacations are coming to an end, hopefully more people
>> are around and can raise their voice.
>> Infra people, packages maintainers, mirror admins, end-users, don't be
>> shy, let us know what you think about including libdvdcss in RPM Fusion.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Xavier
>
>
> As a package maintainer and end-user, I think it'd be valuable to have
> libdvdcss in RPM Fusion.
>
> If there is some concern about mirroring, though, perhaps we could create a
> *third* repository for this sort of even more dubious package? Which I guess
> at the moment would just be libdvdcss and anything that depends on it. Then
> mirrors that don't / can't ship it simply don't mirror this additional repo.

That reminds me how openh264 is dealt with in fedora.
Can anyone sum-up the existing methods used by various distro about this issue ?

Thx


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Nicolas (kwizart)