Apple Pulls VLC from the iOS App Store [Video]

We were pretty excited when VLC, our favorite multi-format video player, dropped for iOS , nonetheless it appears like the sun has already set on that glorious endeavor. Just as we’d heard it will probably , VLC has been removed from the App Store-though not at Apple’s request. Rémi Denis-Courmont, a lead contributor to the project, decided that the the DRM inside the App Store violated the GNU public license, requesting that Apple remove it. We’re uncertain we buy this interpretation of the GPL, and it doesn’t quite make sense that it takes what was an absolutely free and easily available app far from millions of users. Worse, it doesn’t set the most effective precedent for other open source projects, especially with the Mac App Store having similar DRM features. We hope you all grabbed your copy once you had a raffle. [via TUAW ]

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