libdvdcss,again

Conrad Meyer konrad at tylerc.org
Sat Dec 13 09:45:04 CET 2008


On Saturday 13 December 2008 12:41:28 am Peter Lemenkov wrote:
> Hello All.
>
> 2008/12/13, Gianluca Sforna <giallu at gmail.com>:
> >  > The question is, who agreed not to ship libdvdcss (completely legal in
> >  > wast majority of countries) and when?
> >
> > I'm not here since a long time, but I already saw few threads about
> >  this, so I guess archives could answer your Q.
>
> I searched a bit, but cannot fuiind any traces of *agreement*.
> Actually, there is the only relevant thread I found:
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.redhat.fedora.rpmfusion.devel/2264

The current state of things is that Livna still lives (and ships *only* 
libdvdcss), and that way RPMFusion can avoid shipping libdvdcss and get 
advertised in countries where libdvdcss is illegal.

Regards,
-- 
Conrad Meyer <konrad at tylerc.org>




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