[www-doc] [Git][VideoLAN.org/websites][master] Rewording to make it less bad

[Jean-Baptiste Kempf]

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 <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>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.</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>
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+<p><b>VideoLAN</b> originally started as a project from the <a href="https://viarezo.fr/">Via Centrale Réseaux</a>
+ student association, after the successful Network 2000 project.<br /> But the true release of the project to the world was on 1st of February 2001, 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>.</p>
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+<p>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_GPL.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>
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-<p>Since then, the project became a French non-profit organization, and continued developing numerous solutions around the free software multimedia world.</p>
+<p>Since then, the project evolved to become 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>
 



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