LGPL doesn't help with app stores, anyway.

Posted Nov 24, 2012 0:50 UTC (Sat) by apoelstra (subscriber, #75205)
In reply to: LGPL doesn't help with app stores, anyway. by DonDiego
Parent article: Relicensing VLC from GPL to LGPL

> This was not about app stores, much less Apple ones, why do you and others keep assuming that it was? Note that I'm not pulling this statement out of thin air, I talk to the VLC people regularly.

It's purely speculation. All the media outlets I've seen have clearly said "we don't know why, but this kinda makes sense, and it hasn't been denied".