VLC Media Player in Danger of Being Pulled from App Store
VLC Media Player in Danger of Being Pulled from App Store
Posted 11/01/2010 at 1:54pm
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Maybe you heard about it over the weekend, but VLC, the open source multimedia player application, is in serious danger of being pulled from the App Store because of a formal copyright complaint.
The official statement is as follows:
"Today, a formal notification of copyright infringement was sent to Apple Inc. regarding distribution of the VLC media player for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. VLC media player is free software licensed solely under the terms of the open source GNU General Public License (a.k.a. GPL). Those terms are contradicted by the products usage rules of the AppStore through which Apple delivers applications to users of its mobile devices."
The app is still in the store at the moment, but it might not be there for long. Go and get it! [iTunes link]
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jazzyguy
November 01, 2010 at 2:27pm
There is no breach of copyright conditions that I can see. What is the hoopla all about?
nicvargus
November 01, 2010 at 2:53pm
on the linked site, it says: it is about to be pulled from the App Store due to a formal copyright complaint being issued against the software by one of the individual contributors to the VLC project.
I'm not really sure about open-source software and copyrights, but it would appear VLC has a problem with a third-party app being created with its software... Maybe?
selio
November 01, 2010 at 4:03pm
From what I've seen it's actually because of the DRM applied by the App Store that makes it only able to be put on five devices or something, although the app is free, so I could just be missing something.
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