libdvdcss - where did it go?

[Conrad Meyer]

On Wednesday 26 November 2008 12:22:24 pm Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 19:34:13 +0100,
>
>   Jochen Schmitt <Jochen at herr-schmitt.de> wrote:
> > Yes I have prefered if libdvdcss were gone into non-free of rpmfusion.
> > But if
> > livna will still exist in the future thats is a acceptable solution.
>
> The problem isn't its freeness, but rather it is a DMCA violation to
> provide it in the US. RPMFusion has US based mirrors, so including it would
> be a problem for them.

So did Livna but that didn't exactly stop them. The problem is that including 
it loses RPM Fusion some free promotion and so they've chosen to tell users 
to get the rpm from somewhere else if they need it (for example, Livna still 
has it).

Regards,
-- 
Conrad Meyer <konrad at tylerc.org>