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Techdirt (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Tom wrote about the Skype/GPL case yesterday, and it's worth noting (as many in the comments did) that partway through the hearing, Skype gave in and agreed to drop the appeal and abide by the lower court ruling. That's a good thing. However, from the comments on Tom's post, it appears that many seemed to have misunderstood what he wrote, believing he was (a) supporting Skype or (b) disparaging GPL....
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IMPACT® (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
News is emerging that Skype has dropped its effort in the German Courts to challenge the validity of GPL2, still the most commonly used free software licence despite the launch last year of GPL3. The case is to do with...
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broadstuff (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Edmund Burke noted that: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” There was a post on Techdirt that to my mind exemplifies how this will play out in the Open Source world - as it becomes more valuable, commercial interests are increasingly trying to subvert its precepts. One of the recent Open Source issues was the Skype attempt to avoid the implications of...
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Cnet (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
Groklaw is reporting that the Skype has given up on its appeal against a lower German court's ruling that the GPL is enforceable, thank you very much. Skype had considered appealing on the grounds that the GPL inhibits (???) free trade, but a few minutes of serious reflection must have ...
