Hi Michael, On 07/07/2016 23:51, Michael Cronenworth wrote: > On 07/02/2016 04:47 PM, Xavier Bachelot wrote: >> Any comments are welcome, I'll enhance the wiki page with them. >> I'm especially interested in comments_against_ hosting libdvdcss in RPM >> Fusion, with facts on why it would be bad. >> Once we'll have enough input, we can then collectively try to reach a >> decision on what to do with libdvdcss. > > Can you reach out to VideoLAN on their reasoning? > > Kodi has decided to force bundling of libdvd{css,nav,read} and my > attempts at removing libdvdcss support result in a non-functional Kodi > in regards to reading DVDs. Even non-encrypted DVDs. >
The reasoning is VideoLAN is a French organization and libdvdcss is legal in France. See http://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. Regards, Xavier