GPL vs. Skype Back In Court 369
mollyhackit writes "Hackaday reports that the GPL vs Skype case is going back to court today. This as an appeal to the court's decision Slashdot reported last July. The original case was brought against Skype for the Linux based SMC Skype WiFi phone. The court upheld the GPLv2 and decided that Skype had not gone far enough in meeting section 3 which details how to provide the original source. This time around Skype is apparently trying to argue that the GPL violates anti-trust regulations."
I fought the license.... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I fought the license.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Shooting itself in the foot (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Simple Solution (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Antitrust? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Violates Anti-Trust?? (Score:4, Funny)
Ahhh...Following the book : History for geeks
You couldn't fork communism in USSR. They didn't have any upgrade after the 1.917 version...The cosmetic changes of the 1.922 aren't worth to remember and they didn't last anyway. The massive refactoring of Stalin didn't help either. Khrushchev tried extreme programming with the cuba crisis and some clever UI interface codename sputnik...The marketing department (called politburo) ruined all his efforts few years after. In the end Gorbatchev had to sold out the assets.
As you see this is totally different from GPL. You can fork application since the beginning of GPL. See Emacs vs Xmacs.
(I love Slashdot probably the only place on earth where GPL can be seriously compared with communism.)