[www-doc] [Git][VideoLAN.org/websites][master] Add press release for VideoLAN 20y

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

Jean-Baptiste Kempf pushed to branch master at VideoLAN organization / websites


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e1ce400e by Jean-Baptiste Kempf at 2021-02-01T16:25:16+01:00
Add press release for VideoLAN 20y

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+<?php
+   $title = "Press Release - VideoLAN is 20 years old!";
+   $lang = "en";
+   $menu = array( "vlc" );
+   require($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"]."/include/header.php");
+?>
+<style>
+ body {
+      color: #232525;
+    }
+p { font-size:14px; line-height: 26px; }
+.subtext { position: relative; top: -20px; left:300px; width: 300px; text-align: center; }
+.productDescription li { margin-left: 20px; font-size: 13px; }
+
+h2 { margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 12px; }
+h3 { color: #999; font-size: 16px; }
+em { font-style: italic; }
+
+</style>
+
+<h1>VideoLAN is 20 years old!</h1>
+<br />
+
+<div class="longtext productDescription">
+<div class="date"><b>Paris, Feb 1<sup>st</sup> 2020</b></div>
+
+<h2>VideoLAN celebrates its 20 years anniversary</h2>
+
+<p>The <b>VideoLAN</b> project and the <a href="/videolan/">VideoLAN</a> non-profit organization are happy to celebrate today the 20<sup>th</sup> anniversary
+ of the open-sourcing of the project source code, that happened on the 1<sup>st</sup> of February 2001.</p>
+
+<p>On that date, 20 years ago, the <a href="https://www.centralesupelec.fr/">École Centrale Paris</a> director, Mr. Gourisse, allowed the open sourcing of the whole
+VideoLAN project under the <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html">GNU GPL</a>.<br />
+This open sourcing concerned all the software developed by the VideoLAN project, including <em>VideoLAN Client</em>, <em>VideoLAN Server</em>, <em>VideoLAN Bridge</em>, <em>VideoLAN Channel Switcher</em>, but also libraries to decode DVDs, like <em>libdca</em>, <em>liba52</em> or <em>libmpeg2</em>.</p>
+<p>At that time, this was a risky decision for the <a href="https://www.centralesupelec.fr/">École Centrale Paris</a>, and the VideoLAN project is very grateful.</em>
+
+<span style="margin: 10px;"><?php image('VideoLAN_LGPL.jpeg', "VideoLAN decision to GPL"); ?></span>
+
+<p>Of course, VideoLAN started before, as a project from the <a href="https://viarezo.fr/">Via Centrale Réseaux</a> student association, after the successful
+<em>Network 2000</em> project. <br />
+But the true release to the world came 20 years ago, when we were allowed to move to a <b>Free Software</b> license.</p>
+
+<p>Since then, the project became a French non-profit organization, and continued developing numerous solutions around the free software multimedia world.</p>
+<p>In addition to the popular <a href="/vlc/">VLC media player</a> <em>(the new name of VideoLAN Client)</em>, VideoLAN also developed <b>x264</b>, the most popular
+software encoder in the world, streaming software like DVBlast, DVD and Blu-Ray stack libraries or, recently the <a href="https://code.videolan.org/videolan/dav1d">dav1d</a>AV1 decoder.</p>
+
+<h2>About VideoLAN</h2>
+
+<p><a href="/">VideoLAN</a> is a non-profit organization, run by volunteers, that supports the development of free and open source multimedia solutions.<br />
+Its most famous distributed software, the <a href="/vlc">VLC media player</a>, is completely free and also one of the most used programs in the world. The application is free of advertisements, spyware, bloatware and other misfeatures that could be deceptive to its users.</p>
+
+<p>Visit <a href="http://www.videolan.org/">http://www.videolan.org</a>.</p>
+
+<h3>Press Contact</h3>
+<p>press at videolan.org</p>
+
+</div>
+<?php footer('$Id:$'); ?>
+



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