Relicensing VLC to LGPL
This is a crazy task, because every developer keeps all its rights, and VideoLAN has little rights on VLC. This involves contacting a few hundred developers, some who were active only 10 years ago, some with bouncing mails, and people spread across continents, countries, languages, OS…
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November 20, 2012 5:25 PM
[...] Link. Vive la difference. by jgordon on November 20, 2012 • Permalink Posted in share Tagged pinboard [...]
This is terrible. GPL is a perfect license for a project like VLC. Going down to LGPL will now make it much harder to incorporate other open source components into it.
