Unity’s Open-Source Double Standard: the ban of VLC
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VLC for Unity integration

Everyone can agree on VLC being the best video player, right? Game developers can agree on it too, since it is a great utility for playing multimedia in games, and/or have a video player included. However, disaster struck; Unity has now banned VLC from the Unity Store, seemingly due to it being under the LGPL license which is a “Violation of section 5.10.4 of the Provider agreement.” This is a contridiction however. According to Martin Finkel in the linked article, “Unity itself, both the Editor and the runtime (which means your shipped game) is already using LGPL dependencies! Unity is built on libraries such as Lame, libiconv, libwebsockets and websockify.js (at least).” Unity is swiftly coming to it’s demise.

Edit: link to Videolan Blog Post: https://mfkl.github.io/2024/01/10/unity-double-oss-standards.html

    • BombOmOmEnglish
      91•6 months ago

      It’s for including it in Unity games as a component.

      • themeatbridgeEnglish
        81•6 months ago

        I thought we all agreed that building games in Unity was a bad idea.

        • FaceDeer
          11•6 months ago

          Many people did, but humanity is not a hive mind. “We all” never agree on anything with 100% unanimity.

          • themeatbridgeEnglish
            5•6 months ago

            I’m pretty sure you’re wrong about that. I distinctly remember the meeting, there were cookies and Tim’s grandma made those brownies with the peanut butter M&Ms, and then we all voted and everyone agreed. It might not have been unanimous but everyone agreed to abide by the decision of the group.

            In fact, I remember you were there. We talked about shopping for gifts, and how hard it is to find new indie music these days. You were wearing a sweatshirt with the cool design that everybody liked.

            • FaceDeer
              2•6 months ago

              I think I’d remember wearing a sweatshirt, and I’m not at all into indie music, so that must have been someone else.

              I’m mostly deer so I guess I don’t get invited to humanity’s all-hands meetings where decisions like this get made. :(

      • ZagorathEnglish
        9•6 months ago

        Oh 🤦‍♂️

        I saw Unity and talk about open licences and just assumed that this was talk about Ubuntu and the interface that comes with it…

    • @[email protected]English
      25•6 months ago

      Not a game developer but I have a hunch that its for displaying videos within the game. Like a cut scene.