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Skype Withdraws Appeal Case and GPL Wins

May 09, 2008 (6:00:00 PM)  -  1 year, 6 months ago
After last year's case, when the high district court of Munich, Germany, issued an injunction against Skype for selling the SMC WSKP 100 Linux-based WiFi VoIP phone, the Luxembourg-based company seems to be plagued with legal problems once more, this time related to the violation of the GPL license. After the initial GPL violation, Skype provided a flier with the URL for the source code with the package and now they decided to make an appeal on the court's decision... and they've lost!
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