On 07/02/2018 04:29 PM, Paul W. Frields wrote:
On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 10:35:57AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
Is it appropriate for Fedora to ship software whose only purpose is to
violate terms of service of web sites, such as restrictions like this?
“
You agree not to access Content through any technology or means other than
the video playback pages of the Service itself, the Embeddable Player, or
other explicitly authorized means […] may designate.
”
The software is specifically designed to circumvent restrictions the web
site operator has put in place to prevent offline viewing of content.
You didn't indicate which software you refer to.
Spot can advise more here, certainly. My recollection is Fedora
hasn't generally assessed software based on how people use it, with
very specific exceptions. Any software that can be used to subvert
ToS could also be used by the site operator to test countermeasures,
so this seems to me an unwise place to draw a line.
I was wondering about quvi/libquvi-scripts and youtube-dl.
The URLs in libquvi-scripts are hard-coded, and the test suite attempts
to connect to youtube.com (for example). The Totem integration does not
prompt for a URL, either. All this suggests to me that the expectation
is that the software can only be used to access those video sites, and
not testing your own video streaming service.
Thanks,
Florian
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