Use VLC plug-in in a commercial product

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Use VLC plug-in in a commercial product

Postby slowforce » 03 May 2013 17:25

We are considering to use VLC plug-in in different web browsers to decode and display the RTSP live streaming for a commercial product. Does it allowed to use VLC plug-in freely or we need to pay someone to use it?

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Re: Use VLC plug-in in a commercial product

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 04 May 2013 12:56

free.
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Re: Use VLC plug-in in a commercial product

Postby slowforce » 04 May 2013 16:33

Then do we need to open our source code to comply with VLC's GPL2 license model? Thanks!

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Re: Use VLC plug-in in a commercial product

Postby Jean-Baptiste Kempf » 05 May 2013 15:06

No, you should be fine, notably with VLC 2.1.0, since libVLC is LGPL now
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Re: Use VLC plug-in in a commercial product

Postby kc7bfi » 19 Aug 2014 16:14

I noticed that the source code for the browser plugins still reference GPLv2. Will they eventually be modified to be LGPL as well? We are also interested in using the VLC web-browser plugin in our commercial application but want to be sure we can legally do so.


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