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Relicensing VLC from GPL to LGPL

Relicensing VLC from GPL to LGPL

Posted Nov 26, 2012 20:31 UTC (Mon) by DonDiego (subscriber, #24141)
In reply to: Relicensing VLC from GPL to LGPL by tstover
Parent article: Relicensing VLC from GPL to LGPL

There is a VideoLAN press release about why they staid with GPLv2 when v3 came out. I would say that it is safe to assume that the same reasons apply for going LGPL v2.1+ instead of v3.


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