2016-09-01 21:38 GMT+02:00 Ben Rosser <rosser....@gmail.com>: > On Thu, Sep 1, 2016 at 12:56 PM, Xavier Bachelot <xav...@bachelot.org> > wrote: >> >> On 23/07/2016 08:27, Michael Cronenworth wrote: >>> >>> On 07/08/2016 12:59 PM, Xavier Bachelot wrote: >>>> >>>> The reasoning is VideoLAN is a French organization and libdvdcss is >>>> legal in France. >>>> Seehttp://www.videolan.org/legal.html >>>> >>>> Starting from that point, the first question to answer to be able to >>>> distribute libdvdcss in RPM Fusion is which laws do apply to RPM Fusion. >>>> As all (?) of the servers are hosted in France, I believe the French law >>>> applies and thus it should be safe. But indeed, that is just what I >>>> understand from RPM Fusion infrastructure and I might be wrong. >>>> >>>> Second question is, do the people that run the RPM Fusion infra and thus >>>> might be considered liable for the distributed content accept the >>>> potential legal risk, which is pretty low if French laws apply, but is >>>> still non-null. Also, just like I'm unsure where the servers are >>>> located, I'm unsure of the Infra head count and names. >>>> >>>> I'll reach out to VideoLAN as soon as we have answers to the above >>>> questions. >>>> Also, once the above are answered, we can then talk about how the RPM >>>> Fusion contributors feel about libdvdcss, but my (biased) feeling is >>>> most of current contributors are ok . However, there have been some >>>> people that were advert to having libdvdcss in RPM Fusion in the past. I >>>> don't know who they are, what were their exact reasoning, if they are >>>> still active or not and if they've changed their mind. That's why I was >>>> calling especially for opinions against distributing libdvdcss. >>> >>> >>> Nicolas, can you share your thoughts on this? >> >> >> Now that the summer vacations are coming to an end, hopefully more people >> are around and can raise their voice. >> Infra people, packages maintainers, mirror admins, end-users, don't be >> shy, let us know what you think about including libdvdcss in RPM Fusion. >> >> Regards, >> Xavier > > > As a package maintainer and end-user, I think it'd be valuable to have > libdvdcss in RPM Fusion. > > If there is some concern about mirroring, though, perhaps we could create a > *third* repository for this sort of even more dubious package? Which I guess > at the moment would just be libdvdcss and anything that depends on it. Then > mirrors that don't / can't ship it simply don't mirror this additional repo.
That reminds me how openh264 is dealt with in fedora. Can anyone sum-up the existing methods used by various distro about this issue ? Thx -- - Nicolas (kwizart)
