https://www.videolan.org/developers/libdvdcss.html recommends the installation of libdvd-pkg, which is there called a "helper package". libdvd-pkg installs a few files, distributed under the GPLv3+ (as loldier showed). Only one of them, /usr/lib/libdvd-pkg/b-i_libdvdcss.sh, is actual code: a 55-line Shell script that essentially downloads, builds and install libdvdcss (distributed under the GPLv2). All free software... but illegal in some countries where illegitimate laws prevents people from circumventing DRMs. I believe that is why Debian puts libdvd-pkg in the contrib section of its repository and Ubuntu in multiverse.

I forgot to write that, after installing libdvd-pkg, it must be reconfigured (otherwise, libdvdcss is not actually built and installed!), for instance by executing in a terminal:
$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure libdvd-pkg

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