Re: libdvdcss 1.2.11
On 2011/11/24 8:28 AM, Xavier Bachelot wrote:
On 11/24/2011 01:52 PM, Richard Shaw wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2011 at 9:46 PM, Jonathan Dieter<jdieter(a)lesbg.com> wrote:
>> FWIW, I'd love to see this in RPM Fusion and would be willing to review
>> it. I know there's some history behind the fact that it's not in right
>> now, but I don't know any of the history, so I don't know if it's
still
>> applicable.
>
> If you want to see the whole thread, start here:
>
> http://lists.rpmfusion.org/pipermail/rpmfusion-developers/2008-November/0...
>
>
> I'd be willing to maintain it but I'm not sure if anyone's changed
> their minds yet...
>
> Richard
[snip]
It might worth noting that RPM Fusion distribute libaacs and there
was no
real discussion on the legal aspect although I explicitely mentionned this
point as well as the status of libdvdcss.
AFAIK libaacs is a different case because
the AACS implementation is based
on a freely available specification [1]. I believe it has the capability to
decode commercial discs given a key, but this key is not distributed in the
package.
This is unlike libdvdcss, which contains the code to actually crack the
encryption and decode CSS-encryped DVDs which is what makes distributing it
legally questionable in many countries.
[1] http://www.videolan.org/developers/libaacs.html