I guess you didn't open and read the screenshot from the IRC chat. At the bottom of the image; after being asked what needs to be done, he says: "Just the roll

I guess you didn't open and read the screenshot from the IRC chat. At the bottom of the image; after being asked what needs to be done, he says: "Just the rolling cipher circumvention code and the examples of how to get the copyrighted material" (emphasis mine). He's essentially echoing the main talking point that YTDL isn't a scraping tool that acts as a User-Agent (which is legal), but an illegal tool that "circumvents technological measures" because it "decrypts" and runs some JS code just like any browser would. It's what we call being "yeah, yeah yeah'd" -- I don't expect much from GitHubHQ at this point other than trying to save face and maintain their position as the "developers friend".