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   Gabe (gabriel@mk.gabe.rocks)'s status on Sunday, 20-Oct-2024 02:15:06 JST Gabe

   Freedom isn't free, it's earned by the spines of those who turn down the easy path.

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 20-Oct-2024 20:04:14 JST 翠星石

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     @gabriel The very concept of freedom is that it's free.
     
     Although freedom isn't gratis or magically there - someone else has fought for it, or you need to do so.
     
     
     As far as I can tell he wasn't the original author, although he is a major contributor.
     
     Even if he wanted to, he couldn't make VLC proprietary thanks to the freedom that the GPLv2 and LGPLv2.1 ensures.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 12:44:06 JST 翠星石

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     @get I don't even think he has the authority to transfer the Videolan trademark anyway.
     
     If someone was going to offer me $10 million for a trademark for some free software under say the AGPLv3-or-later, where I'm not the complete copyright holder, I wouldn't hesitate to hand over the trademark for that price, although I would note that the license is AGPLv3-or-later, noting that nothing in that license prevents you from including ads or whatever, just as long as you provide the source code as per the terms and then proceed to rebrand it.
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     You Get Glee (get@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2024 12:44:07 JST You Get Glee

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     @Suiseiseki @gabriel
     >Even if he wanted to, he couldn't make VLC proprietary thanks to the freedom that the GPLv2 and LGPLv2.1 ensures.
     
     That's the first thing I thought when I read this. He could've just taken the ten million from the idiot company and retired in luxury. Ads being put in vlc would be inconsequential since it'd just be forked immediately. All that would be changed is some meaningless branding.