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GPL Violations of Miranda IM

Posted by Zonk on from the bad-devs-bad dept.

Eesh writes "The Miranda project developers have recently posted to their development blog about two GPL violations of companies using their code - vBuzzer and StarMessenger. Today, they also posted that vBuzzer are taking steps to correct that violation. Hopefully this will work out fine. Miranda 0.401 stable was released recently"

3 of 245 comments (clear)

  1. Oh Miranda! by Seumas · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh Miranda - you came and you gave without taking!

  2. Re:Star messanger source code by Psionicist · · Score: 5, Funny
    Dear god they can't even run the spyware correctly.
    WinExec

    The WinExec function runs the specified application.

    Note This function is provided only for compatibility with 16-bit Windows. Applications should use the CreateProcess function.
  3. Re:Star messanger source code by qazwsxqazwsx90 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now that they have released their source, you can create a patch that uses CreateProcess instead. See how beneficial open source is to developers.