giantcrazy wrote:I have no use for the app, but is it even legal to charge for this? VLC is an open source project - aren't you building an add-on to it, which would require being GPL'd?
As you say, VLC is GPL, but I don't use any of their code. I just interact with VLC through their published interface. This kind of interaction doesn't bring any requirements for me to GPL my code.
(similarly - windows can say to VLC 'please open this file' without Windows becoming GPL'd)