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:Biggest Legal Victory Ever for GPL
Biggest Legal Victory Ever for GPL
Mar 17, 2008, 20 :30 UTC (4 Talkback[s]) (6376 reads)

(Other stories by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols)

[ Thanks to sjvn for this link. ]

"For decades, almost no one challenged the General Public License in legal matters. In fact, no one has even dared to try to break it in court. That record remains unsullied as the biggest company to date--Verizon--that had been accused of a GPL violation opted to settle out of court.

"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..."

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I've one of the affected units, so I ...   Heh... Got the source already...   
Frank Earl (aka Svartalf)
Mar 17, 2008, 21:58:30
 
I've never fully understood the lega ...   I am still trying to understand   
blackhole
Mar 18, 2008, 13:07:46
 
...in general the idea behind GPLv2; if  ...   While I support...   
OrlandoNative
Mar 18, 2008, 13:26:03
 
"I guess the manufacturer, Actiontec, us ...   How did Verizon get in the mix?   
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