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. Ben Rosser
