Skype 5.5 deobfuscated
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2 days ago, the decompiled/deobfuscated code of the proprietary VoIP software, Skype, was released to public. A free software replacement for Skype is on the FSF's high priority list for a long time but this task is still not fulfilled to these days. Because this is NOT a reverse-engineered code, this does mean that there will be no free/libre client for GNU now (and it is questionable whether that is legally possible at all).
Although using the Skype's proprietary protocol is a bad idea, even if we had a free replacement, it is a good way to help people switching towards freedom. Hope this issue will be sorted out in the foreseeable future.
Source:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA3NzU
http://skype-open-source.blogspot.se/2012/03/skype55-deobfuscated-released.html
Download:
http://depositfiles.com/files/fubowpxeq
https://github.com/downloads/skypeopensource/skypeopensource/skype55.zip
Just to be clear, in the second paragraph, with the "free replacement" I meant a free/libre reverse-engineered Skype client.
There is one good thing to come out of Skype's hard work: Opus
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