2025-05-07 Hacker News Top Articles and Its Summaries
1. Unity’s Open-Source Double Standard: the ban of VLC Total comment counts : 28 Summary VideoLAN began offering binaries for VLC integration with Unity in 2019, creating a bridge between the Unity engine and VLC multimedia. However, in late 2023, Unity banned their publisher account, despite many other assets using LGPL dependencies being available. In response, VideoLAN established the Videolabs Store to sell VLC for Unity binaries and provide consulting services for LibVLC and FFmpeg....