[whatwg] video tag javascript library for contemporary browsers

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Sat Oct 18 11:49:21 PDT 2008


Well...MySQL is also GPL and they find a way to circumvent this

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On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 7:28 PM, J. King <jking at dark-phantasy.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 13:13:17 -0400, Nils Dagsson Moskopp
> <nils-dagsson-moskopp at dieweltistgarnichtso.net> wrote:
>
>> Am Mittwoch, den 15.10.2008, 09:52 -0400 schrieb Michael A. Puls II:
>>>
>>> Awesome! The vlc plugin has awesome performance! Way better than
>>> native video implementations currently.
>>
>> Maybe the Mozilla and Opera people can tell us why ? After all, the
>> optimizations in VLC apparently are all open source ...
>
> Certainly in Opera's case VLC being open-source doesn't help: the code is
> released under a restrictive license (GPL), so unless I misunderstand the
> finer ponts of the license Opera would be unable to use it.
>
> --
> J. King
> http://jking.dark-phantasy.com/
>



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