The District Court in Munich has ruled against the Luxembourg-based company Skype in a case in which the company was alleged to have violated the terms of the General Public License (GPL). On the background: On its website the vendor of VoIP software had offered a handset by the Spanish manufacturer SMC Networks, which runs with Linux. However, SMC had shipped the handsets without including the source code and the GPL license text; these omissions amount to violations of the terms of the GNU General Public License. Harald Welte of gpl-violations.org, who holds the right of use to parts of the Linux kernel, had thereupon filed an appropriate complaint.
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de: Skype found guilty of violating the terms of the GPL
The District Court in Munich has ruled against the Luxembourg-based company Skype in a case in which the company was alleged to have violated the terms of the General Public License (GPL).