@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.