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Begin forwarded message: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dewayne Hendricks) Date: December 11, 2007 3:52:07 PM EST To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Open source software developers sue Verizon; Claim FiOS violates GPL Open source software developers sue Verizon; Claim FiOS violates GPL Information Week By Paul McDougall In what could become a major test case for the most widely used open source software license, a group that represents open source developers has sued Verizon Communications -- claiming that the telecom giant's FiOS broadband service violates the terms of the GNU General Public License. In court papers filed Friday, The Software Freedom Law Center maintains Verizon's use of an open source program called BusyBox in FiOS violates version 2 the GPL because Verizon has not made the product's source code available to its customers--as the license requires. Since November 2006, "Verizon has distributed to the public copies of the firmware in the infringing product, and none of these distributions included source code to BusyBox or offers to provide such code," SFLC alleges in its complaint, which was filed in federal court in New York. <http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=204800422 > ------------------------------------------- Archives: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/247/=now RSS Feed: http://v2.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/247/ Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com -- Frederick Noronha http://fn.goa-india.org Ph +91-832-2409490 12000+ downloadable, sharable hi-res photos http://www.flickr.com/photos/fn-goa/ PLEASE READ, a story on what's possible when there's a marriage between the Right to Information and media: The Indian Navy's deadly aircraft (The Mint) http://www.livemint.com/2007/11/26013747/The-Indian-Navy8217s-deadly.html _______________________________________________ Fsf-friends mailing list [email protected] http://mm.gnu.org.in/mailman/listinfo/fsf-friends
