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VLC endorses the iOS application in the App Store (at the time of linking): http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ios.html http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-i
by danieldk 16y ago
VLC endorses the iOS application in the App Store (at the time of linking):
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ios.html http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ios.html
- JohnTHaller 16y agoIt would be more accurate to state that "the VLC website maintainers have linked to it". It is disingenuous to say VLC "approves" of it as some developers, including Rémi Denis-Courmont, do not and see it as a GPL and copyright violation. Remember, Rémi is one of the core developers (and the top contributor to VLC according to Ohloh's stats: https://www.ohloh.net/p/vlc/contributors https://www.ohloh.net/p/vlc/contributors ), so saying 'VLC approves of the iOS port' is just incorrect.
- danieldk 16y agoI know that in an open source project there are individual opinions. But you would think that if something is listed on the website, it is trustable information, provided by the project. If not, what is the project's official source of information?
- JohnTHaller 16y agoThe opinion of the operator of the website is not necessarily representative of the developers. And the project leaders don't own the copyright to Remi's thousands of contributions, so they can't choose to re-license it or give Apple permission to release the app under any additional licensing or obligations above and beyond the exact stipulations of the GPL.