VLC was pulled from the appstore because of a licencing conflict bettwen the GPL and apple's terms of service. In the way apple distributes its apps, availability of source code, DRM and the 5 device limit apple imposes for both paid and free apps.
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/news/comments/vlc-developer-claims-app-stor e-infringing-vlc-license/ This deprives the end user of the software mainly because apple doesn't allow you to modify the software, considering over 90% of iDevice owners cannot write for iOS, and every iOS device can access all free apps, isn't the GPL being too restrictive? Daniel. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
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