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Re:VLC is blacklisting recent Huawei devices to combat negat... by djrogers on Thursday July 26, 2018 @11:13AM (#17618083)
No, why would it be? It wasn’t produced by the partner, and was never authorized to be copied by anyone. It was straight up copied - source code and all - by Hauwei after their partner got access to our SVN repos.
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Re:VLC is blacklisting recent Huawei devices to combat negat... by random314 on Thursday July 26, 2018 @12:12PM (#17618567)
Why wasn't Huawei sued? I would assume that Huawei acquired the code and design legally if there was no lawsuit.
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