Subj : Re: Does blizzard violate the GPL?
To   : comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux
From : Abdullah Ramazanoglu
Date : Thu Nov 11 2004 03:47 am

begin  Tomas Carnecky dedi ki:

> Hi folks,
> 
> Blizzard has created a tool to download the WoW instalation files, it's 
> based on bittorrent, but it uses other ports. I extracted the .torrent 
> files out of the exe and imported them into azureus. It works great, I 
> can download the files. The other clients have the identification string 
> 'shareaza', which is an opensource bittorrent client released under the 
> gpl. It seems like blizzard took the shareaza client, modified it by 
> compiling the .torrent file into the exe and released it. There is no 
> source nor the GPL text in the package. Does blizzard violate the GPL?

Hi Tom. Thanks for bringing up the issue.
I would suggest you contact shareaza copyright owner, for it is possible
that copyright owner might have granted/sold a proprietary license to
blizzard.

If it's not the case, then they can go after the issue as the copyright
owner(s).

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