Greetings, ----- Original Message ----- > 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 I don't know what quvi is but youtube-dl handles dozens and dozens of sites... among which I'm guessing there are some that allow users to download their content... but I haven't verified that. It is kinda like some of the hardware emulators... they can be used to run stolen ROMs as well as legit. TYL, -- Scott Dowdle 704 Church Street Belgrade, MT 59714 (406)388-0827 [home] (406)994-3931 [work] _______________________________________________ legal mailing list -- legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to legal-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/message/PEB4HOOO555TRUYITVTPMEOTFPQDKDYC/
