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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Help wanted to evolve KDEs music players
From:       Dāvis Mosāns <davispuh () gmail ! com>
Date:       2015-08-04 17:47:50
Message-ID: CAOE4rSyMCduJvw6X7xxPBf22iOidhWxixfWRYrtu3BN=x1AN_w () mail ! gmail ! com
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2015-08-04 20:13 GMT+03:00 Martin Sandsmark <martin.sandsmark@kde.org>:
> On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 07:29:27PM +0300, Dāvis Mosāns wrote:
>> So basically even if you wanted to use it legally you can't use most of players
>> as almost everything is GPL... of course you don't have to abide by it but then
>> what was point of trying to do it legally as you can do it easier in
>> other ways...
>
> Yes, this is kind of what makes it so absurd for me.
>
> The reason we can't use LGPLed libvlc in free software is because there is no
> company selling unfree modules for it.
>
> I do understand the reasoning though, and even if I don't agree with it, the
> policy seems to be set in stone in Fedora et al. So I don't see any reason to
> argue or try to convince anyone.
>

Well, actually you can use, just have to ignore Fedora (and maybe some other
distros), users can always get packages themselves like many do.
VLC is widely used and it seems silly that only reason for not using
libvlc would
be because some distros don't ship it and thus preventing it even for
other distro
users.

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