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(Disclaimer: President of VideoLAN here) Just a few remarks: VLC-Unity plugin is fully open source, and anyone skilled enough can build it themself. We've tri
by jbk 3y ago
(Disclaimer: President of VideoLAN here)
Just a few remarks: VLC-Unity plugin is fully open source, and anyone skilled enough can build it themself.
We've tried for months to discuss with Unity and it was a nightmare. We've had discussions for years with Apple AppStore, Google Play store, and Windows Stores (including Windows Mobile + UWP). It's always challenging, but Unity was a headache an order of magnitude bigger: no answers, 3 different answers contradicting each other, and plain bad faith.
De facto, they use LGPL and open source to build their platform, but we're not allowed to have open source on the store? Not even LGPL with a layer of a different license? Why us? Why not the other people doing it?
Very frustrating.
So, yes, because some people need to buy support or licenses, even if everything is open source (don't want to build themselves, purchase department that needs a support contract, etc...), they need to have a small store. This is different from what we see usually, but there is a need, so this is a small store for that.
For most of HN users, you should just build it yourself. You should be skilled enough for that :)
- vertis 3y agoAh, when I was using Unity I would often buy items I could have built myself even though they were open source, for several reasons: - only so many hours in the day - it's nice to pay people for things they work on - stable release version I'm thankfully not using Unity any more. Watched the recent installs cluster** from a bemused distance.
- yard2010 3y agoI would wage against it. It's as shitty as Blockbuster. No reason they won't end up selling for peanuts
- readyplayernull 3y agoHope Dang pins your comment. The only way to get a consistent response from Unity is paying support. Their store review queue takes months, now with the layoffs it will only get worse. They are hurting themselves by not having your plugin. Feels like they are building their own solution but I bet it will take years to release and will be broken. Unless you are selling the plugin, you shouldn't care. You can host it anywhere and the community will find it.