Unity's Open-Source Double Standard: The Ban of VLC

VLC for Unity integration For the readers unaware, we started distributing binaries on the Unity Store for the open-source VLC for Unity integration back in December 2019. The integration essentially was a bridge between the Unity game engine and the VLC multimedia engine, allowing to build your own media-player based on VLC technology in Unity-based games. Both Unity, through Mono, and LibVLC are highly portable so this is a compelling argument for this cross-platform integration. Since the start, we have had many users downloading the assets from the Unity Store for their Unity apps and games when requiring demanding multimedia solutions. We had 3 assets targeting specific platforms: Windows, UWP, Android. Unity Store ban This all changed at the end of the summer 2023 when Unity emailed us the following: And just like this, our publisher account was instantly banned. After months of slow back-and-forth over email trying to find a compromise, including offering to exclude LG ... Read full article.