Go GPL!
March 19, 2008
http://phnix.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/go-gpl/
The GPL has won another victory -- its biggest so far. Linux-Watch, in
the article "Biggest legal victory ever for GPL", reports:
The Software Freedom Law Center filed a copyright infringement
lawsuit on Dec. 6 against Verizon Communications on behalf of
its clients, the two principal developers of BusyBox. The suit
alleged that Verizon violated the GNU GPLv2 by distributing
Actiontec MI424WR wireless routers -- which contained
unsanctioned GPLv2 code -- that were used with Verizon's
fiber-optic Internet and television service, aka FiOS.
On March 17, the SFLC announced that Verizon has come to an
agreement with the SFLC and the BusyBox developers, which
enables them to dismiss the GPL enforcement lawsuit. BusyBox
is a lightweight set of standard Unix utilities commonly used
in embedded systems. The popular development tool kit is
licensed under GPL. Verizon and Actiontec violated the GPL
condition that redistributors of BusyBox are required to
ensure that every user of the code, or a device containing
the code, must be provided access to the program's source code.
Read the entire post at:
http://phnix.wordpress.com/2008/03/19/go-gpl/
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