On Mon, 2009-08-17 at 21:15 +0200, Sam Geeraerts wrote: > Any volunteers for asking the VLC guys about > where they got it and why they think it can be used in free software?
I hung out in #videolan for a bit, and someone eventually linked me to this ffmpeg list posting: https://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/ffmpeg-cvslog/2007-July/008334.html Long story short, the file seems to be non-free, and several projects ship it anyways. Additionally, the file is included in mostly the same form even in VLC's HEAD, making the entire program apparently unredistributable. Troublingly, the FSF recommends VLC in several PlayOGG pieces, IIRC. If that list posting is correct, and VLC is tainted, this is truly a sad day for free software. I'm going to continue to look into it and would appreciate if others did the same. In particular, we should try to speak with these developers that have touched the file: Antoine Cellerier and Christophe Massiot. Here's the file's Git history, for reference: http://git.videolan.org/?p=vlc.git;a=history;f=modules/stream_out/transrate/putvlc.h;h=186483305a34dd0b0707f6a61e01b9bcf2c09fb4;hb=HEAD
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