During the third VideoLAN Dev Days, last weekend in Paris, numerous developers approved the process of changing the license of the VLC engine to LGPL.
This change of license was an initiative started by some of VLC's main developers and will be a change from the current license (GPLv2 or later) to the LGPLv2.1 or later license. This change was motivated to match the evolution of the video industry and to spread the VLC engine as a multi-platform open-source multimedia engine and library. The VideoLAN non-profit organisation and the École Centrale Paris approve this initiative.
Will this license change allow VLC to be available on the Apple stores?
So far, we don't know if this will change anything.
[^] # Re: Un mini-message plus qu'un journal
Posté par antistress (site web personnel) . En réponse au journal VLC passe à la LGPL. Évalué à 6. Dernière modification le 15 novembre 2012 à 14:26.
http://www.videolan.org/press/lgpl.html