[www-doc] License

[Rémi Duraffort]

Hello,
> The Bavarian (German) police would like to use the portable VLC player.
> The website "http://www.videolan.org/support/faq.html" I could read that there
> is no restriction or to use the VideoLan software does.
> How is it with the used codec? Are these a license?
Software patents does not applied in Europe so their is no problem for
patents on codecs. Moreover VLC media player is open source: it can be used
without any restriction.

> Or simply:
> Can the player in full, without necessarily incurred costs that will be used by
> the Bavarian police?
Yes and you don't need any agreement from us to use it.


Best regards

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Rémi Duraffort | ivoire