Skype Violated the GPL - German Appeals Court
Date : 2008 05 13 Category : Web News
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It's difficult to say whether or not Niklas Zennström, founder of Skype who also created Kazaa, had envisioned that his software would one day be drug through the courts over GPL violations, but that is what has happened recently. Skype has recently lost an appeals court decision in a German court over GPL violations with its SMC network.
Heise online is reporting that Skype Limited lost in the Munich appeals court. Skype argued that the GPL license violated German anti-trust laws. In response, the judge said that even if the GPL license was not valid in Germany, Skype had no right to use and sell the GPL software.