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Following announcement by Cinema On the Web (COW) and DivXNetworks of the new COW video on demand service, the VideoLAN project team members were informed of a possible violation of VLC media player's license. The VideoLAN project, which owns copyrights to VLC, distributes VLC as free software exclusively under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL). 

The Microsoft installer (MSI) file which can be downloaded off the http://www.cinemaonweb.com/ww1/index.php?ab=cow-sw web page appears to contain several binary VLC and Xvid files covered by the GNU GPL. The End-User License Agreement (EULA), which the user accepts when installing, states that: 

« [...] Cinema on Web. (the "Licensor") grants to you this personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, non-assignable license solely to use in a single copy of the Licensed Works on a single computer for use by a single concurrent user only, and solely provided that you adhere to all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement. [...] » 

And all this sort of things
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