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7 months agoYou can hear a more detailed explanation on VLC’s stance from the man himself (JB Kempf) in the FOSS pod S1E11 episode around 22:10.
Basically:
- Not that many threats become lawsuits
- Patent trolling is countered with publicly accessible prior art
- Having no money is also a good deterrent
We have hundred of individual repos and use git flow: short lived feature branches but also long lived develop, master and support branches (for LTS releases).