Sony Rootkit Allegedly Contains LGPL Software

Deaths Hand writes "According to this Dutch article the Sony DRM software (or rootkit, if you may prefer) contains code from the LAME MP3 encoder project, which is licensed under the LGPL. However, the source code has not also been distrbuted, hence breaching the license. Here is an english translation of the page." So apparently Sony violates your privacy to create a backdoor onto your machine using code that violates an Open Source license. This story just keeps getting stranger.

Comments

Re:Notification?

[AvitarX]

Do you mean the problem is you can't use it in stealth rootkits because everyone would be warned or the distributer is comitting copyright violation?

To me this appears to be a case that the LGPL is doing its job well.

The irony of things is that every CD distributed with help prevent infringement software is in itself a copyright violation.