On Apr 13, 2013, at 18:37, Kevin Kofler <kevin.kofler(a)chello.at> wrote:
Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> For seriously lightweight window managers, I've been using "vtwm" for
> years, still published by the Penguin Liberation Front and listed at
>
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/13029794/dir/mandriva_2010/co....
Be warned that PLF packages are NOT intended for Fedora.
Completely true: they often require some editing of dependency names for Fedora and RHEL.
> The Penguin Liberation Front has been a very useful resource, for years,
> of components whose licenses are confusing or problematic: the old "xv"
> and "twm" programs, "libdvdcss" for ripping DVD's, MPEG
libraries, and
> Pine and daemontools before they had their licensing revised. I understand
> why those components can't always be included in a completely open
> distribution with US based resources and primary maintainers like Fedora.
> But man, they're useful if you can accept the licensing personally or
> you're in a country with sane laws about DRM.
For Fedora, there is RPM Fusion which provides such packages (and a separate
repository for libdvdcss at
rpm.livna.org).
Kevin Kofler
Unfortunately,
rpm.livna.org spends its whole front page saying it's all at RPMfusion,
except one package which they *very, very, carefully* do not name or even list an actual
directory URL to review.
A bit of digging shows that the correct URL to see the *content* is
http://rpm.livna.org/repo/, and you're right, it's libdvdcss. I'm glad
it's available. The DRM craziness around that package is insane, and I'm glad when
I can do the work in a country that does not have such onerous restrictions.