FLOSS: Accept no substitutes

Posted by tuxchick on Jul 13, 2011 12:18 PM EDT
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Free-as-in-freedom software is very often free-as-in-beer, too. This is normally a good thing. But one open source project developer is calling out a troubling problem with free software: counterfeit applications. The problem, according to VideoLAN developer Ludovic Fauvet, is this: VideoLAN's highly regarded VLC Media Player, which is licensed under the GPL, is being redistributed by various organizations' websites, some of which claim that VLC is actually their application to distribute. These websites attract users with paid Google AdWords ads that come up in various media-player related searches.

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Changing the VLC engine license to LGPL henke54 0 928 Dec 10, 2011 10:20 AM
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