At last, Apple has removed VLC media player from its application store. Thus the incompatibility between the GNU General Public License and the AppStore terms of use is resolved - the hard way. I am not going to pity the owners of iDevices, and not even the MobileVLC developers who doubtless wasted a lot of their time. This end should not have come to a surprise to anyone.

Rémi Denis-Courmont

I couldn’t believe my eyes when I read that from a core member of VLC.  I’ve been loosely following the VLC drama ever since this developer asked Apple to take down VLC from the app store due to a “perceived” licensing violation.  In the grand scheme of things, thousands if not millions of users will no longer have access to to VLC code.

This is definitely a case where it only takes one to ruin it for everyone. I would think if one makes the decision to release their source code as open source, they actually want to see their code actually being used.

For me the bigger question is who owns the copyright over the project?  Can any developer assert a copyright violation at anytime without the consensus of the other developers?

I just can’t support a project where petty politics and an inflated sense of self worth are more important than the users.