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As reported in Groklaw and on the plaintiff's blog, Skype has decided to withdraw its appeal against a 2007 German court decision that found it was violating the terms of the GPL. What's interesting here is not the scale of Skype's problems (they were shipping mobile devices without including the required source code, or an offer to send it, with the device), but that things played out in court pretty much as the original GPL designers would have liked.