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Press Release - VideoLAN is 20 years old! - VideoLAN

VideoLAN originally started as a project from the Via Centrale Réseaux student association, after the successful Network 2000 project. But the true release of the project to the world was on 1st of February 2001, the École Centrale Paris director, Mr. Gourisse, allowed the open-sourcing of the whole VideoLAN project under the GNU GPL.