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]: Incorrect statement:
by lemur2 on Mon 12th May 2008 10:45
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Well more or less. The source code must be available to the one who owns the program, and for free, or at least not more expensive than the shipping cost.
Actually, I think the GPL requires that the source code must be made available to anyone who asks for it, and for no cost other than reasonable costs of reproduction and/or mailing.
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Note: A copy of the GPL license is required with the software, but a copy of the source code is not.
Edited 2008-05-10 02:51 UTC