Popular media player VLC has been pulled from Apple's App Store at the request of one of the program's original developers.
Apple App Store has dropped the VLC media player at the request of one of its original developers. Photo credit: Charles McLellan
The situation involves a conflict between the General Public License, which governs VLC and many other open-source programs, and Apple App Store policies.
"On January 7, Apple removed VLC media player from its application store for iDevices," Remi Denis-Courmont, one of the developers of the desktop version of VLC, wrote in a blog post picked up by the website of the nonprofit group behind the original software. "Thus the incompatibility between the GNU General Public License and the App Store terms of use is resolved — the hard way. This end should not have come as a surprise to anyone, given the precedents."
For more on this ZDNet UK-selected story, see Alt media player VLC cut from Apple App Store on CNET News.
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