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VLC 2.0 releasedVLC 2.0 releasedPosted Feb 20, 2012 13:38 UTC (Mon) by njwhite (subscriber, #51848)In reply to: VLC 2.0 released by krakensden Parent article: VLC 2.0 released
I mostly worry this will result in lots of VLC + spyware + agressive seo/marketing frontends targeting clueless users.
Hopefully VLCs brand is strong enough now that when users of proprietary systems ask friends how to get the latest videos to work, they'll get pointed to VLC.
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VLC 2.0 released Posted Feb 21, 2012 15:59 UTC (Tue) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]
Really? Because spyware authors are currently ensuring that they're GPL compliant?
VLC 2.0 released Posted Feb 21, 2012 16:10 UTC (Tue) by njwhite (subscriber, #51848) [Link]
Your point is basically valid, bad actors shouldn't be expected to follow the license. I was more thinking of less black-and-white bad guys, more along the lines of how download.com bundled their own "helpful extras," for "user experience enhancement." I'm not sure in that case whether they violated the license, but they're the sort of big player who would prefer not to, while shipping their "enhanced version."
VLC 2.0 released Posted Feb 21, 2012 20:36 UTC (Tue) by bronson (subscriber, #4806) [Link]
Ha, true. But that sort of thing strikes me as a self-correcting fringe case that might not be worth worrying about.
(easy for me to say...)
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