libdvdcss 1.2.11

[Stewart Adam]

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 at 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/002428.html
>>
>>
>> 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