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German Court Convicts Skype For Breaching GPL
terber writes "A German court has once again upheld the GPLv2 and convicted Skype (based in Luxembourg) of violating the GPL by selling the Linux-based VoIP phone 'SMCWSKP 100' without proper source code access. (Original is in German, link is a Google translation.) Skype later added a flyer to the phones' packaging giving a URL where the sources could be obtained; but the court found this insufficient and in breach of GPL section 3. The plaintiff was once again Netfilter developer Harald Welte, who runs gpl-violations.org. The decision is available in German at www.ifross.de (Google translation here)."
What a bunch of GPL Nazis.
Court upholding GPL - Good!
Conviction for copyright violation - Bad!
What's a loyal drone to believe anymore??
"Ask not what your country can do for you." --John F. Kennedy
Why not!
In any case you have completely misrepresented peoples positions and conflated different groups.
Don't look now but I think your strawman is on fire.
Yes we can. And do. You see, RIAA/MPAA are evil. The OSS guys are good. Haven't you seen Star Wars?
Noone would be convicted of "breaching the GPL". The GPL is not an EULA. If you violate the terms of the GPL, you are (re)distributing without a license permitting you to do so (since the GPL, which you violated, is the only thing that gives you permission to do so), which is a copyright violation, not a GPL violation. I wish articles would get the specifics right.
You win today's "Pedant of the day award." Look for your certificate in the mail.
you get runner up for using the word "pedant".
but you don't get a certificate. We're kindof assholes like that.
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My German is a bit rusty, but I'm pretty sure that "Server Error" is not a very good translation.
Engineering is the art of compromise.