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From: Craig on 22 Jun 2010 09:31
Shoutcast, owned by AOL, changed its licensing such that integration
conflicted with open-source project licensing. Below is a snippet from VLC:

> What happened?
>
> During the last year, the VLC developers have received several
> injunctions by e-mail from employees at AOL, asking us to either
> comply to a license not compatible with free software or remove the
> SHOUTcast capability in VLC...
>
> Moreover, the license forces us to integrate the spyware and adware
> based Shoutcast Radio Toolbar inside your browser as stated at
> chapter 6.6:
>
> "Integrated Product. You agree to promote the SHOUTcast Radio toolbar
> on your web site and within the documentation of the Integrated
> Product subject to placement agreed to by You and Nullsoft in
> writing. If the Integrated Product is a software download, You agree
> to bundle the SHOUTcast Radio toolbar with the Integrated Product."

<http://www.videolan.org/press/2010-1.html>


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-Craig
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