The twists and turns in the Sony Rootkit DRM Scheme just keep twisting and turning. According to this article in eWeek, software writers have uncoverd sections of OpenSource code that doesn't follow the OpenSource rules of being identified as such. Without such disclosure this apparently violates copyright laws.
"If open source software is tightly integrated into a single executable program, the whole application has to become open source software, even open source software such as LAME whose MP3 encoder is licensed under the more relaxed Lesser General Public License (LGPL), a lawyer said."
"That's the flipside of open source: If you don't respect the open source rules, the old regime of copy protection comes back in full force," said attorney and Internet specialist Christiaan Alberdingk Thijm at law firm SOLV in the Netherlands."
For a company that was wrapping itself in the mantle of protecting the rights of intellectual property holders as it's defense in this DRM scheme, this has to be more than a little embarassing.
