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VLC For iOS Returns On July 19, Rewritten and Fully Open-Sourced

Posted by timothy on from the media-player-beats-media-platform dept.

An anonymous reader writes "VideoLAN revealed some very exciting news today: VLC for iOS will be back in Apple's App Store by tomorrow (July 19). The company tells TNW the app will be available for free worldwide, requires iOS 5.1 or later, as well supports the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch. As you can expect, VLC for iOS version 2.0 will be open-source. This time, however, its code will be available online (also by tomorrow), bi-licensed under both the Mozilla Public License Version 2 as well as the GNU General Public License Version 2 or later."

2 of 203 comments (clear)

  1. Exciting news? by Arker · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah, this doesnt seem like exciting news to me at all. Dual-licensing it to get it in the app store is a failure, not a victory. If the app store isnt compatible with GPL software, then the app store shouldnt be getting access to GPL software. Dual-licensing to work around Apples error seems actively counterproductive to me.

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  2. Re:3 2 1 Takedown by psergiu · · Score: 4, Insightful

    One of the VLC devs requested to have it removed because of licensing after said developer was hired by Nokia.
    Note that same developer has not complained over VLC being distributed for Nokia phones under similar conditions with Apple's AppStore.

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