Re: [Trisquel-users] VLC Media Player - free or not?

[legimet . calc]

VLC is completely free software. It uses patent-encumbered (but free) codecs,  
which are needed to play patent-encumbered formats. There are companies such  
as MPEG LA which collect patents. These are called patent trolls, and are  
very harmful to free software developers.

If you are making your own videos, please use a patent-unencumbered format  
such as ogg or webm. See http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/playogg/en/ for more  
information.