Re: bug#25356: livestreamer no longer supported

[ng0 <contact.ng0@cryptolab.net>]

Leo Famulari transcribed 0.7K bytes:
> On Wed, Jan 04, 2017 at 06:50:14PM +0000, ng0 wrote:
> > Do I read this correctly that they include some kind of
> > anti-military license in there? I mean I am very much welcoming
> > such an exclusion but with all the past discussions I had it lead
> > to the point where it is not compatible with free software.
> > 
> > Do we have to strip OCB from the source?
> > https://github.com/Legrandin/pycryptodome/blob/master/LICENSE.rst
> > 
> > Pycryptodome is a dependency of streamlink.
> 
> The question is about the OCB block cipher mode. I think we are able to
> distribute implementations of it:
> 
> http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/ocb/ocb-faq.htm#patent:phil
> http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/ocb/ocb-faq.htm#license
> http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/ocb/license.htm
> 

With regards to this bug, can someone help to get the facts clear here
so that we know what needs to be done to package streamlink?

Thanks.
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