Beta News: Cisco Says It Will Resolve iPhone GPL Violation

"Late last week, Cisco acknowledged on its corporate blog that a contributor to the GNU Violations Project notified the company that its VoIP iPhone--up until last November known as the WIP300--may violate terms of the GNU General Public License. Since it's a Linux phone, full source code for its implementation must be made public to comply with the license terms.

"Armijn Hemel, who co-manages the GPL Violations Project with Harald Welte, notified journalists and bloggers, before notifying Cisco itself, the company said, that certain of its technologies in its Linux-enabled phone had not been made public..."

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