[vlc] Re: Information Requested on VideoLan..

[Sam Hocevar]

On Wed, Feb 19, 2003, Andrew Brimson wrote:

> For one of our clients, we will provide the entire solution from TV IP
> Headend to 15" touch screen monitors at the head-end.  I am little confused
> as to the terms of the GPL licence.  
> 
> Can we integrate Videolan into our solution? If so, what is the licence
> implications and what cost is there to use your product?

   You can integrate any GPL program into your solution if the inte-
gration consists of a mere aggregation of binary programs. What you are
not allowed to do is link VideoLAN with one of your proprietary libraries
or add proprietary code to VideoLAN.

   Then you also need to provide source code for the GPL program you are
distributing. It does not need to be public, but the people to whom you
are selling VideoLAN must have a way to get the source code to VideoLAN
and any modifications you did to it. See section 4.1 of the VLC FAQ at
http://www.videolan.org/doc/faq-vlc/faq/, as well as the GPL FAQ at
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html

   And finally, the cost to use our product is zero, but we welcome
donations.

-- 
Sam.
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