Legal

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Licences, source code, trademarks and the credits of everything shown on this site.

Licence

MacLC is free software under the GNU General Public License, version 2 or later. It contains code from VLC, whose playback engine, libVLC, remains under the GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1 or later. As with VLC on some platforms, the distributed app is de facto under the GPL 3.0 because of the licences of some bundled libraries.

The app includes VideoLAN’s libmedialibrary and libdvbpsi (LGPL 2.1 or later) and TagLib (LGPL 2.1 or MPL 1.1), the RIFE v4.25 model (MIT, from Practical-RIFE) and SDR to HDR models trained by Hazen Studio (LGPL). The upscalers are NIS and FSR 1 (MIT, with NVIDIA’s and AMD’s notices kept verbatim), Anime4K and ArtCNN (MIT), and FSRCNNX (LGPL-3.0, downloaded only after you accept its licence). The licences of the 143 bundled libraries — FFmpeg, dav1d, libass, FreeType, libmatroska, libplacebo, libtorrent-rasterbar and others — are in MacLC.app/Contents/Resources/Licenses.

Source code

The complete corresponding source is public, free and without registration at github.com/OZBM/MacLC. You may study, change and redistribute it under the terms of those licences.

Trademarks

MacLC is not affiliated with, endorsed by or supported by VideoLAN. “VLC”, “VideoLAN” and the traffic-cone logo are trademarks of VideoLAN. MacLC uses none of them: it has its own name, its own icon and its own bundle identifier, org.maclc.MacLC. Please report MacLC problems to MacLC, not to VideoLAN.

Apple, Mac, macOS, Apple Silicon, Liquid Retina XDR, Pro Display XDR, ProMotion, QuickTime, Metal and VideoToolbox are trademarks of Apple Inc. Dolby Vision is a trademark of Dolby Laboratories. HDR10+ is a trademark of HDR10+ Technologies, LLC. YouTube is a trademark of Google LLC. Stremio is a trademark of its owner. IINA and Infuse belong to their respective owners. They are named here only to describe compatibility and to compare.

MacLC is not affiliated with YouTube or Google, nor with any streaming service named in the app (Netflix, Apple TV+, Disney+, Prime Video, HBO Max, Hulu, Paramount+, Peacock, Crunchyroll, MUBI, Criterion Channel, Canal+, SkyShowtime, BBC iPlayer, Starz, Shudder). The services filter only reads public catalogs listed by a community add-on.

Add-ons

Add-ons are run by third parties, not by Hazen Studio. MacLC does not host, index or provide films, shows or streams. The services filter only reads public catalogs listed by a community add-on. Please respect copyright law where you live; use add-ons only for content you have the right to watch. MacLC is not affiliated with Stremio, YouTube, Google, or any streaming service named in the app.

Thank you, VideoLAN

MacLC builds on more than twenty years of work on VLC by the VideoLAN project and many volunteers, whose engine plays nearly everything ever encoded: thank you.

Pictures on this site

The screenshots are drawn from reproductions of MacLC’s interface. The films and videos inside them are free to reuse:

Tears of Steel (2012), (CC) Blender Foundation, mango.blender.org — CC BY 3.0.
Panoramas Spiaggia di Mondello, Shanghai Bund, The Sky Is On Fire, Venice Sunset and Alps Field from Poly Haven — CC0.
Posters of Big Buck Bunny, Sintel, Cosmos Laundromat, Spring and Sprite Fright, and the cover of Caminandes: Llama Drama: Blender Foundation and Blender Studio (studio.blender.org), CC BY 3.0 or CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Frames were cropped and resized, and the SDR to HDR demonstration simulates on an ordinary screen how highlights change on an HDR one. The titles given to the videos in the library screenshot are illustrations.