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From: <salsaman@xs4all.nl>
Date: Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 7:55 AM
Subject: [estudiolivre] VLC and AppStore
To: estudiolivre@lists.riseup.net
From Rémi-Dennis Courmont (rem@videloan.org)
"Espoo, Finland - 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. At the time of
writing, the infringing application is still available. However, it is to
be expected that Apple will cease distribution soon, just like it did with
GNU Go earlier this year in strikingly similar circumstances:
http://www.fsf.org/news/2010-05-app-store-compliance .
Thus, users of iOS-based devices would be deprived of VLC media player, as
a consequence of the intransigently tight control Apple maintains over its
mobile applications platform. In any case, while the rules for
distribution of open-source or "free" (as in speech) software are
extremely relaxed, they do exist and have to be abode by. VLC and
open-source software in general would not have reached their current
quality and success if it had not been for their license.
Therefore, blatant license violation cannot be tolerated at any rate.
Concerned users are advised to look for application on more open mobile
platforms for the time being."
The problem appears to be that the Apple TOS (Terms of Service) add
additional restrictions, which is not allowed under the GPL.
Rather puzzlingly, some of the vlc developers have moved to silence Rémi,
by blocking his input from their RSS feed. As a counter protest, he has
taken down his popular site, planet.videolan.org.
I (salsaman) have notifed the vlc developers that they are not to
distribute any of my code under terms which conflict with the GPL.
I hope you will all understand that we are fighting for the principle of
Free Software for all, despite whatever short term pragmatic opportunities
may present themselves.
Please support us by forwarding this email to anyone who may be interested.
Regards,
Salsaman.
http://lives.sourceforge.net
https://www.ohloh.net/accounts/salsaman
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