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Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Is VLC free?


From: Benedikt Ahrens
Subject: Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Is VLC free?
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:13:23 +0200
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Ted Smith wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 21:15 +0200, Sam Geeraerts wrote:
>> Any volunteers for asking the VLC guys about 
>> where they got it and why they think it can be used in free software?
> 
> I hung out in #videolan for a bit, and someone eventually linked me to
> this ffmpeg list posting:
> 
> https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-cvslog/2007-July/008334.html
> 
> Long story short, the file seems to be non-free, and several projects
> ship it anyways. Additionally, the file is included in mostly the same
> form even in VLC's HEAD, making the entire program apparently
> unredistributable. Troublingly, the FSF recommends VLC in several
> PlayOGG pieces, IIRC. 
> 
> If that list posting is correct, and VLC is tainted, this is truly a sad
> day for free software. I'm going to continue to look into it and would
> appreciate if others did the same. In particular, we should try to speak
> with these developers that have touched the file: Antoine Cellerier and
> Christophe Massiot.
> 

I reported a bug against the Debian package in Lenny:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=542108 .
Perhaps there will be an interesting discussion as well.

ben







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