Skype responds to Euro GPL rebuke

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"The violation reportedly involved the manner in which Skype distributed a third-party product, a VoIP handset with an embedded Linux kernel and supplied by SMC Networks as model WSKP100 (depicted on the right). The suit alleged that Skype failed to supply a copy both of the source code and of the GPL license itself -- as required by the GPL -- along with the handset to its purchasers."

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