PLEASE READ: Import status livna, work from maintainers required

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 21.08.2008 18:43, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> On Monday, 11 August 2008 at 07:01, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> About the other package. I'm not going to touch that package ever in RPM 
>> Fusion and I more and more agree with those people that asked not to 
>> ship it. So IOW: Somebody else needs to branch, import, build and sign 
>> that package.
> I don't know if you read my reply on IRC, but strictly speaking, you
> have already done that by branching, importing and signing MPlayer
> builds. MPlayer contains a copy of libdvdcss.

I know, but the source here in Germany is not the problem afaik; OTHO 
distributing an binary app or lib that is directly able to circumvent 
css is afaik.

 > [...]
>> Can't remember, but I think so; it iirc uses the package in question 
>> dynamically if needed.
> Indeed, but users still need to get that package from somewhere.

And I'd say that "somewhere" is the better place (¹) as having a 
compiled libdvdcss in the repos in my humble opinion might be 
problematic for these reasons:

  * we already lost one major long-term Fedora and Livna contributor 
from Europe because he feared to contribute to a repo that might contain 
libdvdcss.

  * There are likely a lot more Fedora contributors that won't 
contribute to RPM Fusion (livna showed that in the past) as long as 
there is a package like libdvdcss in the repos, as libdvdcss is one 
level more problematic that all the other stuff we have.

  * I hope that we in the long term can cooperate with proprietary 
software companies to get their software (things like flash, adobe 
reader and similar stuff) into our nonfree repo; that will liekly never 
work if we have libdvdcss in the repo

  * it could create trouble for people mirroring or using RPM Fusion; 
thus some people will decide not to mirror or use RPM Fusion

As always: just my 2 cent

CU
knurd

(¹) -- I'm sure we can get that "somewhere" up and running quickly and 
make it available for RPM Fusion users easily