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by jbk 11y ago
You are speaking of developer freedom, not end-user freedom, which was parent's question. zlib is a library, not an end-user application.
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by jbk 11y ago
I already gave them the patch in form of a conference at FOSDEM.
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by jbk 11y ago
> What changed was that VLC relicensed to LGPL, I believe, for this very reason. This is incorrect. We changed for other reasons, notably competition and corporate acceptance of the libVLC engine. That relicensing was started way before
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by jbk 11y ago
> For an entirely new project, would you rather require all contributors to assign copyright to a single entity which then manages licensing or would you have individuals retain copyright? (Off topic: is this even possible in France?) Fi
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by jbk 11y ago
> Yeah, and because of the additional restrictions of GPL, big companies are simply avoiding it or writing software to replace it. Sure, and my point was to answer the parent about what freedom does the GPL grant to the users. Your point
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by jbk 11y ago
I'm sorry, but you are answering on the side to what I've said. It's about freedom to use, not to get/modify/redistribute.
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by jbk 11y ago
This analysis is very outdated.
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by jbk 11y ago
Seriously, most of your facts are wrong. Source: I'm the president of VideoLAN, I did the VLC relicensing[1], and spent a lot of time on GPL/stores compatibility [2]. VLC was GPLv2+ and so was libVLC (the engine library that was s
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by jbk 11y ago
> I'm not yet convinced that MIT-like, BSD-like, and Apache-like are any worse at perpetuating user freedom, and may in fact be far better at perpetuating user freedom due to their greater acceptance. Well, the GPL mandates the righ
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by jbk 11y ago
Which is why, for VLC, we contacted ourselves all the mirrors (+ quite a few new ones), and built our own new mirroring system, that is faster (and more reliable) than the SF one. The mirrors had no problem with that, since we were already
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by jbk 11y ago
You don't need Windows to make Windows apps. MingW and Wine work very fine on Linux.
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by jbk 11y ago
Our VLC account has been taken too by sf-editor-1. Fortunately, we've moved to our mirror infrastructure since quite some time, and it's faster and way better. Btw, if any other open source project needs help to distribute their b
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Firefox Beta now integrates Pocket(blog.mozilla.org)
13 points by jbk 11y ago|10 comments
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by jbk 11y ago
The question is more: why are people moving away from Fedora, when you look at the stats: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Statistics . Fedora 14 was way more used than any other later version. I think this is related to
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by jbk 11y ago
All the TVs are moving to native SDKs, in order to have good games and good multimedia apps. This is true of Samsung, Sony and LG. Games on Firefox OS are a joke. If you want extra codecs, media players or media center, you need to write th
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by jbk 11y ago
First, I fail to see the difference with the UX of the other smart TVs. But mostly, as it is still Firefox OS, I don't see how people will be able to do cool multimedia applications, without access to native code and threads. Implement
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VLC 2.2.1 “Terry Pratchett” is out(videolan.org)
4 points by jbk 12y ago|0 comments
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by jbk 12y ago
Yes, VLC can play directly VP9, if you have an up-to-date release. But to play the VP9 Youtube URLs, you need to be able to play DASH format too. And this, DASH extension used by Youtube is not supported yet in VLC. However, it should be, f
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by jbk 12y ago
> its been kind of nice to have textsecure as an option when internet is not available (which sadly happens a lot especially for travelers...) Yes, this was also one of my main use of TS, and also in the subway, where Data is limited...
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by jbk 12y ago
http://www.computerworld.com/article/2488440/search/mozilla-...
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by jbk 12y ago
The Windows Store is slow to propagate.
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by jbk 12y ago
The problem is that it's quite more difficult to compile compared to NSIS. But yes, if I could, I would move 100% to MSI.
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by jbk 12y ago
So far, no. Working on Mozilla technologies is usually very painful.
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by jbk 12y ago
If resolution (and even that) and mostly chroma are similar, VLC should recycle. If it does not, please file a bug. As for using Linux, try the OpenGL module, instead of the default.
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by jbk 12y ago
For iOS, we have a pretty good patch to do it, yes. We just have a weird but with M2TS files, but we will merge it during the next month. Expect it for 2.6.0
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by jbk 12y ago
> the glitch when switching between videos in a playlist is annoying as hell Are you sure those are still present?
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by jbk 12y ago
Yes. It's not simple, but yes, you can.
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by jbk 12y ago
Can you code C or C++?
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by jbk 12y ago
Done
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by jbk 12y ago
Both are heavily under development for 3.0.0

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