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Ovum: Companies Need to Play Fair with the GPL

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“BT and Cisco have both been recently denounced for failing to
meet the General Public Licence (GPL) requirements in their
respective wireless broadband router Home Hub and iPhone WIP300
products. They had not published details of all the code they were
using.

“The two companies should have known better and need to improve
their internal processes to deal with GPL requirements (the GNU
General Public Licence–GNU GPL or simply GPL is the most
widely-used licence amongst open source projects). This is
particularly the case with Cisco, which had already been linked
with GPL violation in the past…”

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