[vlc] Re: Using VLC in non-commercial administration

[Måns Rullgård]

"Olaf Müller" <omdancer at gmx.de> writes:

> Hello,
>
> as a happy private user of VLC, I would like to introduce this
> excellent program to my workplace, a non-commercial city
> administration. I know that VLC is freeware, so there is no problem
> with the player itself. My question is the following: For playing back
> the different types of videos, for instance, you employ different
> codecs. Do I have to fear legal problems when using VLC with its
> implemented codecs for anything else than private use? This is really
> important, because if I want to use it, it has to be clean.

These issues are the same for private and non-private use.  You're
just more likely to get caught in a non-private situation.  The
legality depends on two things: 1) whether software is patentable in
your country, and 2) whether your courts will enforce invalid patents.

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Måns Rullgård
mru at inprovide.com

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