The VLC people had to contact many authors to relicense libVLC to LGPLv2.1 because it would otherwise not be compliant to Apple’s terms. Surely the details are documented somewhere.
That’s because VLC took external contributions, and therefore couldn’t relicence the software by themselves.
All of the Github authors seem to be part of the official dev team, so the organisation behind the app shouldn’t run into any permission issues unless they’ve messed up their paperwork.
That’s because VLC took external contributions, and therefore couldn’t relicence the software by themselves.
“As I understand Apple’s terms, GPL code isn’t actually prohibited”
No relicensing would have been required if your understanding was correct. That said, I have a slight headache and that’s why I’m not looking it up myself.
The VLC people had to contact many authors to relicense libVLC to LGPLv2.1 because it would otherwise not be compliant to Apple’s terms. Surely the details are documented somewhere.
That’s because VLC took external contributions, and therefore couldn’t relicence the software by themselves.
All of the Github authors seem to be part of the official dev team, so the organisation behind the app shouldn’t run into any permission issues unless they’ve messed up their paperwork.
“As I understand Apple’s terms, GPL code isn’t actually prohibited”
No relicensing would have been required if your understanding was correct. That said, I have a slight headache and that’s why I’m not looking it up myself.