[Trisquel-users] VLC's change to a LGPL v2 licence

[tegskywalker]

I was upgrading my VLC today and went to the Videolan website and came across  
a post at http://www.videolan.org/press/lgpl.html about a license change from  
GPL v2 to LGPL v2.1. Seeing that VLC is considered free software, how does  
this affect it from now on? Does this mean it will have the possibility to be  
not as open anymore and in the future not be considered fully free software?  
Of course it does raise some flags with these quotes:

"This change was motivated to match the evolution of the video industry and  
to spread the VLC engine as a multi-platform open-source multimedia engine  
and library."

"At first, the change will affect the VLC engine, also known as libVLC,  
allowing applications or plugins based on the VLC engine to be built under  
non-GPL licenses. The libVLC bindings for other languages are also  
concerned."

"In a second pass, more parts of VLC will change license, in the same way:  
important plugins and modules will change license depending on the agreement  
of the copyright holders."