Skype accused of violating the GPL
The District Court of Munich accused Skype of violating the GPL license. One of the VoIP phones sold by Skype worked on Linux, but the GPL text was missing from its delivery, although a license requires it.
The phone is actually owned and supplied by SMC Networks . Harald Welte, founder of the gpl-violations.org website, asked the company to resolve this problem, but SMC only included a list with a set of links to the phone, which was not enough.
Actually, that's why Harald went to court, after which he managed to win the process (acting in Germany). Now Skype delivers license text with every phone.
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Do not you think that we should expect a series of similar processes?
The phone is actually owned and supplied by SMC Networks . Harald Welte, founder of the gpl-violations.org website, asked the company to resolve this problem, but SMC only included a list with a set of links to the phone, which was not enough.
Actually, that's why Harald went to court, after which he managed to win the process (acting in Germany). Now Skype delivers license text with every phone.
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Do not you think that we should expect a series of similar processes?
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/12496/
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