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After reading some comments and noticing that you're one of the VLC lead developers (awesome software, by the way!), I am wondering if you have a way to make VL
by S4M 14y ago
After reading some comments and noticing that you're one of the VLC lead developers (awesome software, by the way!), I am wondering if you have a way to make VLC notify its users at the first launch (after install) and tell them something like
"You have installed VLC, it should have come without any additional software such as tool bars or file compressors. If this was not your case, you probably installed it from a third party that arbitrarily and without our consent added external programs. We recommend you to install VLC from videolan.org, etc."
That way, casual users will at least be aware of the external installs problem.
- joenathan 14y agoThe type of person who would read that disclaimer is the type of person who wouldn't have downloaded from the wrong site in the first place.
- SwellJoe 14y agoVLC is open source. It would be trivial for a rebundler to remove that warning. If they are violating the license already, there seems to be no impediment to changing the code for personal gain.
- jbk 14y agoVLC for Windows is hard to compile to be honest. But binary patching is doable, indeed.
- TeMPOraL 14y agoYeah, it usually is trivially easy. If I were to do it, first thing I'd do is to look for the string in executable and patch it by hand with a hex editor.
- Zak 14y agoWhat's the legality of distributing a binary-patched app covered by the GPL? Something makes me think it's questionable.