VLC 1.1 Forced To Drop Shoutcast Due To AOL Anti-OSS Provision 315
The folks over at VideoLAN are in the process of releasing version 1.1.0 of VLC, and one of the major changes is the removal of SHOUTcast, a media-streaming module from AOL-owned Nullsoft. "During the last year, the VLC developers have received several injunctions by e-mail from employees at AOL, asking us to either comply to a license not compatible with free software or remove the SHOUTcast capability in VLC." Within the license is a clause prohibiting the distribution of SHOUTcast with any product whose own license requires that it be "disclosed or distributed in source code form," "licensed for the purpose of making derivative works," or "redistributable at no charge." The license would also force VideoLAN to bundle Nullsoft adware with VLC. Update: 06/22 00:52 GMT by H : The 1.1 release is ready from their site; you can also read up on the release information.
Re:AO-who? (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe their just trying to take themselves out of their own misery.
Re:Seriously, how is AOL even marginally relevant? (Score:5, Funny)
Sure. Just type in the AOL Keyword, "AOL".
AOL makes software? (Score:4, Funny)
Speaking of which I really miss getting the free sample Frisbees from them every month. Did they go bankrupt or something?
XBMC? (Score:3, Funny)
How does XBMC get away with SHOUTcast support then? Or should I be asking this question?
That (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Not the first and not the last (Score:5, Funny)
And the way to do it? remove shoutcast, make it a module, put the module outside the usa, and make it auto install. call it "aol can go to hell-shuotcast plugin OSS version"
then say, "we cant control plugin makers, sorry, but our product does not have shoutcast compatability in it."
Do a video press release flipping the bird the entire time. ALA vietnam and korea war POW film reels.
Re:AOL makes software? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Wait... (Score:3, Funny)
Who's AOL? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:AO-who? (Score:3, Funny)
I don't recall hearing of them ever doing anything to benefit the users.
They used to send me free floppies in the mail, that was cool.
Then they started sending useless plastic discs, that wasn't cool.
Re:AO-who? (Score:2, Funny)
You're kidding right? You can either pay cents for a floppy... or FREE FRISBEE, Woohoo! Seriously though, we used to grab a stack of them, and play ultimate death frisbee in an empty parking lot
Re:Not the first and not the last (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Not the first and not the last (Score:3, Funny)
The problem with AOL giving away puppies and icecream is that they don't make very good coasters.
Re:Not the first and not the last (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Not the first and not the last (Score:5, Funny)
What's wrong with AOL and ME?! I'm runnin' AOL 9.0 right now on my Windows ME eMachines desktop with Norton, McAfee, and XP Antivirus Pro 2010. I got my Yahoo!, Ask.com, Windows Live, Altavista, and Mapquest toolbars for browsing with IE 6.0. I download all the latest movies before they come out, using Limewire, and all the latest cracked video games as well. Whenever my computer slows down I just call my geek friend to fix it.
Re:Open Sound System (Score:3, Funny)
Oh no. Now look what you've done. You have me thinking that maybe I should install FreeBSD when I get this other Opteron assembled with all the rest of the stuff laying around. You proselytizer!