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German Court Convicts Skype For Breaching GPL

Posted by kdawson on from the means-what-it-says dept.

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)."

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  1. Re:Slashdot Hypocrisy by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  2. Please Convict These: +1, Patriotic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


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    Kilgore Trout

  3. Re:Correct terminology by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  4. Does this mean the Germans are coming for my Skype by ElvisGump · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Was it over when the Germans bombed Perl Harbor?

    HELL NO! When the going gets tough, the tough get going!

    WHO'S WITH ME?!!1!