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Everyone can agree on VLC being the best video player, right? Game developers can agree on it too, since it is a great utility for playing multimedia in games, and/or have a video player included. However, disaster struck; Unity has now banned VLC from the Unity Store, seemingly due to it being under the LGPL license which is a "Violation of section 5.10.4 of the Provider agreement." This is a contridiction however. According to Martin Finkel in the linked article, "Unity itself, both the Editor and the runtime (which means your shipped game) is already using LGPL dependencies! Unity is built on libraries such as Lame, libiconv, libwebsockets and websockify.js (at least)." Unity is swiftly coming to it's demise.

Edit: link to Videolan Blog Post: https://mfkl.github.io/2024/01/10/unity-double-oss-standards.html

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[–] thatgirlwasfire@lemmy.world -3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Most of the people downvoting you dont seem to understand why VLC is only quasi legal in the US.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Because it can read DVDs. Which is evil (because they ought to pay a license). That's all there is to it.

[–] owen@lemmy.ca 2 points 11 months ago

They're stealing money from the mom and pop DVD technology license holders!!! 😡😡😡