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Skype Announces Open Source - Sort of...
Originally posted on VoIP & Gadgets Blog, here: http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/skype/skype-announces-open-source---sort-of.asp.
 Slashdot was abuzz with the news that Skype was going open source. Not so fast my friend. Have you not forgotten Skype (News - Alert) founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis who now run JoltId are in a legal fight with Skype?
Surely Skype wouldn't be so bold as to release their P2P 'secret sauce' while still in court litigation with JoltId. Who would want to thumb their nose at the all-powerful judge? In fact, the lawsuit reads: "A source code version of the GI Software (Global Index Software) is licensed by Joltid to Joost (News - Alert), allowing Joost to be the first company to successfully deliver television and other video content in real-time over a peer-to-peer network. An executable-only object code form of the GI Software was licensed by Joltid to Skype, a well-known Internet-based company that providers users throughout the world with free or low-cost telephone services over the Internet. Skype did not obtain a license to the GI Software source code, however, and the license it did obtain was terminated based on Skype's breaches of the license agreement."
Well, it turns out Skype doesn't have balls of steel, but rather they are making the GUI open source on the Linux platform. Whoopdeedoo. So the graphical user interface is going open source. Move along, nothing to see here.
Tags: joltid, open source, skype, voip
Related tags: software licensed, licensed joltid, skype, source, joltid, software
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