Welte v. Skype going to trial [LWN.net]

Welte v. Skype going to trial

Posted May 7, 2008 18:54 UTC (Wed) by and (guest, #2883)
Parent article: Welte v. Skype going to trial

Is this case about the source code of Skype or of the linux distribution 
on the phone? I assume it's the latter since skype is clearly an 
application running within its own address space and thus not a derived 
work by standard gnu/linux convention...

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Welte v. Skype going to trial

Posted May 7, 2008 19:02 UTC (Wed) by dowdle (subscriber, #659) [Link]

RTFA... it is tiny.  From what little info that is there... Skype has a hardware phone
appliance that is based on the Linux kernel... which is like... kinda GPLed, right?

Welte v. Skype going to trial

Posted May 7, 2008 19:21 UTC (Wed) by ericc72 (guest, #41737) [Link]

Actually, the short FA didn't state much in regards as to what was in violation.  I would
think the previous poster asks a valid question.

Welte v. Skype going to trial

Posted May 8, 2008 2:22 UTC (Thu) by jamesh (subscriber, #1159) [Link]

The most likely candidate would be the same thing Harald has successfully sued people about in
the past: distributing the Linux kernel in violation of the license terms (i.e. without a copy
of the license or without the source or a written offer to provide the source code).

Welte v. Skype going to trial

Posted May 7, 2008 19:27 UTC (Wed) by smurf (subscriber, #17840) [Link]

Harald's blog states:

This case is about a GPL violation of Skype, related to their sales of Wifi Skype phones based on the Linux operating system kernel.