[ Thanks to Arend
Lammertink for this link. ]
“I’m sure you’ve already heard about the Sony rootkit that was
first revealed by Mark Russinovich of Sysinternals. After the
Finnish hacker Matti Nikki (aka muzzy) found some revealing strings
in one of the files (go.exe) that are part of the copy protection
software, the rootkit is also suspected to be in violation of the
open-source license LGPL. The strings indicate that code from the
open-source project LAME was used in the copy protection software
in a way that’s not compatible with the LGPL license which is used
by LAME…”