Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 9th May 2008 13:19 UTC, submitted by Moulinneuf
In July of 2007, Skype lost a court case over their failure to include a copy of the GPL in their WSKP100 VoIP phone - it ran Linux, GPL software, which means a copy of the GPL license must be included. The case was started by the gpl-violations.org group. Skype decided to appeal against the decision, but it has decided to withdraw that appeal.
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RE[2]: Pity about the venue really.
by melkor on Sat 10th May 2008 11:35
in reply to "RE: Pity about the venue really."
Member since:2006-12-16
Agreed.
Once again, I'll state the simple facts - if you don't like the GPL code, then don't use our GPL software. This is really why I want GPL v3 pushed, it *protects* that code from abuse even better than GPL v2 does (which doesn't do a bad job of it I do admit).
Dave
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2005-07-24
What's the hurry? I'm quite content to see one company after another voluntarily comply. A more serious problem , I should think, would be those companies who violate the licensing and go undetected.
Edited 2008-05-09 15:10 UTC