• woelkchen@lemmy.worldM
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      11 months ago

      I don’t think Apple’s terms are problematic.

      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.

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          11 months ago

          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.