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Best Buy Caught in GPL Tussle

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Sean Michael Kerner
Dec 15, 2009

“In a lawsuit filed today, the Software Freedom Law Center
(SFLC) is taking aim at alleged GPL license violation by 14
consumers electronics vendors including retail giant Best Buy.

“The violations are related to the GPL licensed BusyBox
collection of utilities which are found in products sold by Best
Buy and included by multiple consumer electronics vendors including
Samsung, Westinghouse, and JVC. BusyBox is a collection of Unix
utilities that have been optimized for size and are most commonly
used in embedded environments such as TV sets and DVD players.”

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