WTH is wrong with public perception

By this rationale they should be avoiding shipping openssl and all that 
depends upon it, including openssh. In some jurisdictions using encryption 
is a very serious crime.

The real reason ffmpeg isn't available for non-patent-encumbered 
jurisdictions is that the US is a patent-encumbered one and the majority 
of Fedora devs (in the US) reasonably don't see the point in adding 
infrastructure for the other jurisdictions that they can't use.

(also it can sometimes be hard to figure out what those jurisdictions are, 
not least thanks to the EU's ridiculously obfuscatory approach to 
lawmaking.)