libdvdcss in RPM Fusion ?

[Xavier Bachelot]

On 06/09/2016 10:03, Nicolas Chauvet wrote:
> 2016-09-06 9:48 GMT+02:00 Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de>:
>> On 09/01/2016 06:56 PM, Xavier Bachelot wrote:
>>
>>>> Nicolas, can you share your thoughts on this?
>>
>> libdvdcss's legal situation in Germany is widely unclear[1].
>>
>> According to German laws cracking "wirksame technische Maßnahmen“
>> ("effective technical measures") of copy protection is unlawful.
>>
>> The fundamental question in this context is: "Does CSS (still) qualify as an
>> effective technical measures of copy protection?"
>>
>> Answer: Nobody knows. Only courts would be able to answer this question.
>>
>> I.e. the legal risks of libdvdcss have not changed for years, i.e. should
>> libdvdcss binaries enter RPMFusion, esp. German RPMFusion mirror
>> owners/mirror managers are not unlikely to be confronted with legal action.
>
> How many legal action have occurred ?
>
>
>
My understanding is a lot of countries have provision for 
inter-operability (including the US). I don't know if such a provision 
exists in Germany, but that would then allow to ship libdvdcss safely.

I had a short discussion with Adrian about mirrors. I may not be 
transcribing his words exactly, but he basically said shipping libdvdcss 
is not worst than all the patent encumbered stuff for US mirrors. We can 
still reach specifically to mirror admins to get their feeling.

If mirroring libdvdcss is still a concern, we may want to ship libdvdcss 
in a dedicated repo so mirrors can exclude it easily.
If that is not enough, we might do as Fedora does for openh264, that is 
use the RPM Fusion infra for the SCM and building the package, but 
upload it to another host. Given Pix mail from this morning, I guess it 
could be where Livna was hosted. That is more burden on the RPM Fusion 
infra and infra admins though... And it is not as straight-forward and 
convenient for end-users.

Regards,
Xavier

PS: the link to the page I created in the wiki about libdvdcss :
http://rpmfusion.org/libdvdcss