SAN FRANCISCO (AP)—eBay Inc. has settled a legal skirmish with the founders of Skype that threatened to complicate eBay’s plans to sell most of the Internet phone service to a group of investors for $2 billion.

The online marketplace operator said Friday that the settlement gives Skype ownership of critical software that had been licensed from Joltid Ltd., which is a company founded by Skype co-founders Niklas Zennstrom and Janus Friis. The settlement effectively ends Zennstrom and Friis’ litigation against the investor group and eBay.