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

Welte v. Skype going to trial

Posted May 7, 2008 19:02 UTC (Wed) by dowdle (subscriber, #659)
In reply to: Welte v. Skype going to trial by and
Parent article: Welte v. Skype going to trial

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?

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Welte v. Skype going to trial

Posted May 7, 2008 19:21 UTC (Wed) by ericc72 (guest, #41737) [Link] (1 responses)

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 (guest, #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).