[jk700]

As someone who uses youtube-dl for all the videos online, it's presence in any repos isn't as important as it may seem, because it breaks from time to time for some websites and you need to update it in order to keep using it, which is only easy if you keep it in your home directory so you can just run youtube-dl -U once it breaks.

[AshamedCaptain]

I completely disagree. I have been using for example NewPipe from FDroid which is autobuild regularly as native Android program.

I would no longer expect FDroid now to keep doing this if they risk a DCMA letter that takes out their entire repo.

And I would assume a shitton of users use yt-dl code through another GUI application, rather than directly through an EasyInstall/virtualenv/whatever. And will most py repos still dare to host/link this code if the risk is a DMCA letter to their ISP?

[cyphar]

NewPipe doesn't use youtube-dl, they have their own implementation of the stream extraction code[1]. Unless that codebase also has test cases which specifically try to download RIAA content, they would need to find a different justification for a DMCA takedown.

[1]: https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor

[toyg]

Cam down. This will just end up like DeCSS, when it was packaged separately and left to the user to trigger the necessary download.

Distribution/integration is the easy part. The hard part is to anonymise and secure core developers, and to allow contributions to continue flowing in a safe manner.

[efreak]

NewPipe has their own fdroid repo already, so that shouldn't cause any serious issues