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:BusyBox Developers and Monsoon Multimedia Agree to Dismiss GPL Lawsuit
BusyBox Developers and Monsoon Multimedia Agree to Dismiss GPL Lawsuit
Oct 31, 2007, 12 :45 UTC (8 Talkback[s]) (5385 reads)

"The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) and Monsoon Multimedia today jointly announced that an agreement has been reached to dismiss the GPL enforcement lawsuit filed by SFLC on behalf of two principal developers of BusyBox.

"BusyBox is a lightweight set of standard Unix utilities commonly used in embedded systems and is open source software licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2. One of the conditions of the GPL is that re-distributors of BusyBox are required to ensure that each downstream recipient is provided access to the source code of the program. Monsoon Multimedia uses BusyBox in its HAVA TV place-shifting devices..."

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"The settlement also includes an undiscl ...   Welcome the highwaymen.   
Rainer Weikusat
Oct 31, 2007, 13:57:36
 
> ... as soon as> somebody starts to mak ...   Re: Welcome the highwaymen.   
blackhole
Oct 31, 2007, 16:04:39
 
>Publish a lot of really trashy code,Bus ...   Re: Welcome the highwaymen.   
CD Baric
Oct 31, 2007, 16:18:30
 
Is that you Terekhov? ...   Re: Welcome the highwaymen.   
asdfdaergfrg
Oct 31, 2007, 17:00:39
 
> That's an exciting, new 'open  ...   Re: Welcome the highwaymen.   
Tony OBryan
Oct 31, 2007, 17:03:19
 
> >Publish a lot of really trashy code,. ...   Re: Re: Welcome the highwaymen.   
Rainer Weikusat
Oct 31, 2007, 17:13:34
 
> > >Publish a lot of really trashy code ...   Re: Re: Re: Welcome the highwaymen.   
DDahl
Oct 31, 2007, 19:30:36
 
I believe I read that the developers of  ...   Re: Re: Re: Welcome the highwaymen.   
Anonymous Maximus
Oct 31, 2007, 21:57:09
 
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