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		_tggb on Dec 17, 2009 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: VLC desperately needs a Mac OS developer to help o... Isn't there a nonprofit behind VLC? I was mostly wondering what what their focus is on. Is their focus primarily licensing issues?

wmf on Dec 17, 2009 [–]

http://www.videolan.org/contribute.html

They have a nonprofit, but it looks like they don't use it to pay developers. I didn't see any financials, so I don't know whether they just don't have enough money to pay developers or they have consciously decided not to (see http://wiki.mako.cc/Crowding_out ).

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