VLC Core is LGPL
This is my website :) (I did not expect that to come on HN, to be honest)Anyway, the title is, of course, misleading. VLC core, named libVLCcore is LGPL since last year (I did it too in december) and the wrapper for 3rd party applications libVLC was relicensed too at the same time.This is different, since most modules of VLC are now LGPL.
We speak about codecs, demuxers, format parsers, protocol accesses, filter and outputs.
And those modules are way more important in terms of contributors and lines of code than the VLC core. In fact, we speak here of 230 people with around 300,000 lines of code, compared to 80 people and 80,000 lines of code for the VLC core.Of course, from a higher-level point of view, all those playback modules are part of the "core of VLC" :)