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

Posted by timothy on Thursday July 18, 2013 @09:05AM 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."

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Re:3 2 1 Takedown by kthreadd · 2013-07-18 09:56 · Score: 0, Troll

Sounds reasonable. The end result is still that the app store is unhealthy for software licensed under GPL, and that's because Apple insists on abusing its users. If they did not abuse their users and allowed software to be distributed under fair conditions, GPL would be just fine.