Ciaran O'Riordan <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well, here's the answer. > > [This press release is available on the web at > <http://www.fsf.org/news/2009-05-cisco-settlement.html>. > FSF Compliance Engineer Brett Smith has written about what we can > learn from this settlement at > <http://www.fsf.org/blogs/licensing/2009-05-settlement>.] > > BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Wednesday, May 20, 2009 -- The Free > Software Foundation (FSF) and Cisco Systems, Inc. are pleased to > announce that they have reached a joint agreement. > > Under the agreement, the FSF has agreed to dismiss its lawsuit against > Cisco. > > Cisco has agreed to appoint a Free Software Director for Linksys, a > subsidiary of Cisco, to supervise Linksys' compliance with the > requirements of free software licenses such as the GPL (the GNU > General Public License). > ..... > .....
Thanks, Ciaran! This news is particularly welcome here, since it makes it that much harder for those with unconventional modes of thinking to distort the reality in the mailing list. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
