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@lemmy.cafe
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    1 year ago

    Nah, I’m just the abuse survivor who traveled across the country to escape and worked at McDonald’s to escape the subsequent homelessness I found myself in once I reached the other side of the continental U.S. The one who knows what I’m taking about because I had to start my life over from scratch to not be murdered while your lazy, cowardly ass is whining about anything, anything being expected of you. That’s who the fuck I am.

    Now stop your pathetic whining and actually put forth effort into something other than making excuses for yourself. If you invested a fifth of a third of a quarter of the energy you dumped into arguing with me onto porting your games, you’d have been done by now.

    The responsibility for change lies solely on you, and if you refuse to sacrifice for positive change, the situation is solely your fault. The only one you have to blame is yourself.