Hi,
I'm sure many of you are aware of the fact that Popcorn Time has been resurrected and forked into two separate projects. The software itself (here I'm referring get-popcorn.com version) is entirely free and open-source (GPLv3) and it has become so popular that I think we should consider adding it to the official fedora repos. Debian considered adding the original version to their repos but when the development got discontinued they abandoned the idea. Now that the project has been forked and development continued I think there is a high possibility that it may end up there soon.
The software may or may not be legal depending on the place you live and I was wondering if this could be a barrier for getting Popcorn TIme accepted into official fedora repos. Please let me know what you think.
Best, James Abtahi FAS: jam3s
Dne 23.5.2014 19:34, James Abtahi napsal(a):
The software may or may not be legal depending on the place you live and I was wondering if this could be a barrier for getting Popcorn TIme accepted into official fedora repos. Please let me know what you think.
Maybe ask on legal mailing list [1].
From my POV, Popcorn uses ffmpeg stuff (just a quick check, not sure)
and therefore cannot be in Fedore either way and should go to rpmfusion.
[1] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/legal
On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 2:44 PM, Miro Hrončok mhroncok@redhat.com wrote:
From my POV, Popcorn uses ffmpeg stuff (just a quick check, not sure) and therefore cannot be in Fedore either way and should go to rpmfusion.
Yeah it needs ffmpeg + chromium (by way of node-webkit). It's definitely a no-go in Fedora, and probably isn't okay even for rpmfusion even given that it _bundles_ ffmpeg and chromium.
Aside that, it's entire purpose is quite clearly to promote copyright infringement. The UI doesn't even attempt to offer legally redistributable content in any way. I would not want this in Fedora or RPMFusion even if it were permitted on a technicality. I believe we have a responsibility to promote responsible use of peer-to-peer file sharing technologies. That means peer-to-peer file sharing technology included in Fedora needs to work with all content, not just a specially crafted list of illegally redistributed content.
To that end, packaging the underlying technology of this is definitely on my TODO list. The peerflix nodejs module provides a really neat CLI that lets you stream any torrent to any application that works with the HTTP streaming protocol.
This is much nicer in that: a.) you must provide your own torrent file/magnet link (hopefully something public domain from archive.org ;-) b.) it has no dependencies on any codecs. You can stream a webm torrent to totem or dragon, or a mp4 torrent to VLC if you have that installed. It also works with audio files, and any other possible filetype you can think of that has a viewer application that supports the HTTP streaming protocol. It's completely content agnostic.
If anyone is interested in helping out please contact me and I can give some pointers on where to start. I've tried to make nodejs packaging incredibly easy. :-)
-T.C.
On 05/24/2014 03:00 AM, T.C. Hollingsworth wrote:
To that end, packaging the underlying technology of this is definitely on my TODO list. The peerflix nodejs module provides a really neat CLI that lets you stream any torrent to any application that works with the HTTP streaming protocol. This is much nicer in that: a.) you must provide your own torrent file/magnet link (hopefully something public domain from archive.org ;-) b.) it has no dependencies on any codecs. You can stream a webm torrent to totem or dragon, or a mp4 torrent to VLC if you have that installed. It also works with audio files, and any other possible filetype you can think of that has a viewer application that supports the HTTP streaming protocol. It's completely content agnostic. If anyone is interested in helping out please contact me and I can give some pointers on where to start. I've tried to make nodejs packaging incredibly easy. :-) -T.C. -- packaging mailing list packaging@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
Sounds like a nice idea. really interested in peerflix although I haven't done any nodejs module packaging yet but I'd like to give it a try.
Dne 24.5.2014 00:30, T.C. Hollingsworth napsal(a):
To that end, packaging the underlying technology of this is definitely on my TODO list. The peerflix nodejs module provides a really neat CLI that lets you stream any torrent to any application that works with the HTTP streaming protocol.
Have there been any progress with this? Where can I step in and help?
packaging@lists.fedoraproject.org
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