GPL upheld in France

> The hidden hard-coded password must have been intentional - it's not just a mistake like failing to check the length of a buffer. Someone had to decide to put in a backdoor

Or someone might have decided to hardcode a password only for convenience, and then hide it just for "security". It does not mean they planned to actually use it as a backdoor. Skype is doing something like this (in a more elaborated way), and no one brought them to a court yet.