On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 10:38 PM, Martin Sandsmark <martin.sandsm...@kde.org> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 10:28:35PM +1200, Ben Cooksley wrote: >> We can't speak for our mirrors in terms of legal risk - those hosting >> VLC in the questionable countries may have decided they'll take the >> risk. >> The USA is the obvious problem country there... > > But what kind of legal risk are we talking about here?
The same one Redhat / Fedora don't like at all, and which SUSE is working around... > > I can't really see why VLC would be worse than pretty much anything else we > ship in terms of patents, for example (there are patents covering a ton of > stuff we do). > > If it is the DVD de-scrambling that is in a separate library, and AFAIK it is > fairly straight-forward to just build libdvdread and/or VLC without that > dependency. From some simple googling it seems like fedora already ships a > libdvdread without de-scrambling enabled, for example. > > -- > Martin Sandsmark Regards, Ben > >>> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe << _______________________________________________ Amarok-devel mailing list Amarok-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/amarok-devel
