libbluray / libaacs / libbdplus

[Xavier Bachelot]

On 07/09/2010 03:52 PM, Xavier Bachelot wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> libbluray is a library to access Blu-Ray disks for video playback. It is
> licensed under the LGPL and as such should be fine for Fedora.
> 
> http://www.videolan.org/developers/libbluray.html
> 
> However, this will only work with blurays not protected with either AACS
> or BD+. The libraries that allow to play protected blurays are libaacs
> and libbdplus, which can be dlopen'ed by libbluray if present. These
> libraries don't provide the keys needed to allow decryption, the keys
> file needs to be fetched elsewhere. These 2 libraries are licensed under
> LGPL too. Would these 2 libraries be allowed into RPM Fusion or is this
> materials for Livna ? This is only a theoretical question for now, as
> libaacs and libbdplus are not yet public but should be soon, but I
> thought it might worth discuss that before, given the fair amount of
> discussion it took to agree on what to do with libdvdcss.
> 
> Regards,
> Xavier
> 
> 
FYI, I submitted both libbluray and libaacs for review in Fedora.
libbluray : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=625602
libaacs : https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=625603

Regards,
Xavier