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Re:Hacking Team used open source code to build Android monit... by dublinben on Wednesday July 22, 2015 @12:23PM (#9930576)
Their use was a violation of the license (GPL v2) of the software at issue. If commercial copyright infringement can be called "theft" then Hacking Team certainly "stole" his code. End users of software, not just the paying clients/spooks, have rights under the original license of his app.
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Re:Hacking Team used open source code to build Android monit... by FireBeyond on Wednesday July 22, 2015 @02:11PM (#9931306)
Based on what? Do you know of a single end user client that's complaining that they don't have the source code to the tools? More than likely they do.

Or are you saying that the license applies to the 'end user', the person unknowingly and/or unwillingly being monitored by the injection of this software onto their devices?

Is that really a road you want to go down - that people with no knowledge or consent are still parties to a license? The whole "click through" EULA thing is bad enough. Now I can come along, commit a felony to install something on your computer without your knowledge and you're still a party to the license of the software I installed.

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