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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

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

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Why does VLC need to be in the Unity store when you can download it directly from videolan.org?

[–] [email protected] 91 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 76 points 11 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 72 points 11 months ago

This is further proof of that.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

lots of games in active development still use it while others who were/are planning to use it will find this information useful in evaluating whether their project can still move forward using unity. not everyone can just choose to not use unity, as they’re already too heavily invested to pivot away.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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. :(

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Not enough of us, it seems.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago
[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 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] 25 points 11 months ago

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