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

  • pinkdrunkenelephants
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    5 months ago

    You sound like a bully when you presume to ad-hom someone who actually overcame impossible odds because you don’t want to admit I’m right and that you’re actually going to have to save yourself since you’ll never get the validation and rescue from your community that you want.

    You are 100% at fault for your own suffering because you won’t take responsibility and act to save yourself, and you have no one to blame for your plight but yourself. It’s as simple as that.

    I already know what you’re going to do though; you’re just going to keep whining, feeling sorry for yourself and playing victim while Unity apathetically locks you out of your life’s work and hides it behind a paywall, and the only one who’s going to suffer from that is you. 🤷