This talk will speak about the work we've done in order to relicense an important part of the VLC framework from GPLv2+ to LGPLv2.1+ It will detail the reasons behind that change, the history of this change, and the important work and tasks accomplished to contact all developers in a no-copyright-assignment project in order to relicense to a more permissive license. It will also speak of the usual legal issues we have with VLC, notably on software patents and DRM breakage.