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The (Sony) plot thickens
By alex | November 18, 2005
vnunet.be - DN - Sony rootkit accused of licence violation
Seems like the XCP program developed by First4Internet and distributed by Sony as theu XCP copy protection program re-used parts of open-source programs like mpeg123, which is mostly GPL’ed.
Thus Sony would be, if this is true, in license violation by not including a copy of the GPL license and including the source code.
Of course, all of this is moot - since the DCMA law prevents people from reverse-compiling it to see if this is actually so or not…
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