• Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
      15·
      7 months ago

      I’d be fine with VLC having a way to watch proprietary Blu-Rays. I think it has that feature and it does seem useful for those who want to watch Disney Blu-Rays. VLC is supposed to be pretty much a swiss army knife of media players, after all.

      If you wanted to compare to the kernel then best comparison would be to something like proprietary drivers or something.

        • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
          11·
          7 months ago

          There’s room for both the principled take and the practicality. We have both FOSS distros and those that ship patent encumbered stuff and proprietary driver.

            • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
              11·
              7 months ago

              VLC has been distributed with libdvdcss and patent incumbered codecs for ages.

              Beware: VLC media player binaries are distributed with the libdvdcss library included.

              I don’t see this as at all different tbh