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There are a lot of people who can't play their SAMR vids from their cellphones with VLC. There is an important little new detail here that just made this issue more important...

My phone is Android (as open as cells get) and I can't play any vid from it on the best open source player there is.

This is really hurting the image of open source...

I heard something about an openAMR codec that couldn't be used because of gpl3, but I don't understand... I tried to ask a question about that but the post got lost somewhere.

Maybe I can help somehow... I think this is worth some focus. I think google and you guys need to talk. Can I facilitate that somehow? Who knows, maybe google will even support the development of a solution. This looks like a thorn in the side of android as well as vlc...

LGPLv3 means that we can't ship it with VLC GPLv2.

The license used by opencore-amr is "Apache License V2.0"
http://sourceforge.net/projects/opencore-amr/develop

http://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html

Despite our best efforts, the FSF has never considered the Apache License to be compatible with GPL version 2, citing the patent termination and indemnification provisions as restrictions not present in the older GPL license. The Apache Software Foundation believes that you should always try to obey the constraints expressed by the copyright holder when redistributing their work.

Hmm

Yeah, it is compatible with LGPLv3 and GPLv3