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by falling 5326 days ago
VLC was pulled because one of the copyright holders complained about the additional restrictions the App Store license adds to the code.

In this case, assuming all the copyright holders agree, they own it and can do whatever they want with the code. It effectively is code with a double license: GPL and the App Store's EULA. In VLC's case, the author didn't want his code distributed under the other license.