Re: the libdvdcss issue
On Tuesday, 18 November 2008 at 11:42, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
On 18.11.2008 11:12, Hans de Goede wrote:
[...]
>it is one of the repos
>which make up the new rpmfusion, also we want this to work seamlessly.
Enabling a repository that ships libdvdcss automatically is nearly just
as bad as shipping it directly in our repos (¹). It hence would
pollute/taint RPM Fusion and imho is a completely no go.
[...]
>To just work, this is way too convoluted IMHO:
>rpm -ivh http://.......rpmfusion-nonfree-release.....rpm
>yum install thirdparty-repo-enabler
>thirdparty-repo-enabler
><click, click, wait, click>
>yum install libdvdcss
Sure, the latter is a bit more complicated, but imho it's the right
thing to do, especially as the user might do something that is illegal
in his country.
I thought only distribution of unauthorized binaries that allow you
to access CSS-obfuscated content was illegal in some countries,
but please feel free to point me to an article of law that says that
playback of a legally purchased DVD is a crime, too.
(¹) the reasons are similar to the reasons why Fedora doesn't
even link
to RPM Fusion
I thought one of the main points of creating RPMFusion was to allow Fedora
to link to us. If that doesn't happen, we might as well keep libdvdcss.
Regards,
R.
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