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VLC 2.0 released

VLC 2.0 released

Posted Feb 21, 2012 16:10 UTC (Tue) by njwhite (subscriber, #51848)
In reply to: VLC 2.0 released by bronson
Parent article: VLC 2.0 released

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."


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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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