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Wait what happened with VLC? I didn’t realize they ran afoul of the “Cathedral”

• dmitriid 7y ago
  The only thing I can remember is that VLC was removed from AppStore due to GPL.
  • mantap 7y ago
    That was because one of the contributors made a (legally sound if unsporting) copyright claim though wasn't it?
    • dmitriid 7y ago
      Åh, that could be it, too. Now that you mention it, I vaguely recall it.
• Epskampie 7y ago
  apple kept changing/breaking Api’s to try to kill vlc so that they could try make money of the paid version of the QuickTime player which then existed. I must admit it was just comments made by VLC devs, so it’s anecdotal.
  • saagarjha 7y ago
    VLC is on Apple’s “must not break list” and gets special checkfixes in the OS, FWIW.
    • enitihas 7y ago
      Source?
      • saagarjha 7y ago
        NSWindowAllowsImplicitFullScreenDefaultValueFunction in AppKit.