Andersen v. Monsoon Multimedia, The Busybox Complaint, as text
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| It's a copyright infringement lawsuit, based on infringement of the GPL in
| that Monsoon, the complaint alleges, acknowledges that its products and
| firmware contain BusyBox but are not providing recipients with source code,
| as required by the license.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070920153227686
The device behind the GPL's first U.S. legal test
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| Moonsoon Multimedia has used embedded Linux to build a consumer DVR (digital
| video recorder) with remote multimedia file serving capabilities.
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http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS2535349507.html
First U.S. GPL lawsuit filed
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| In a statement, Eben Moglen, Founding Director of the SFLC, said, "Free
| software licenses such as the GPL exist to protect the freedom of computer
| users. If we don't ensure that these licenses are respected, then they will
| not be able to achieve their goal. Our goal is simply to ensure that Monsoon
| Multimedia complies with the terms of the GPL."
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http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS3973290690.html
What’s in a free software license?
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| For software to be free, it is universally accepted that users must be
| granted unalienable four rights.
|
| 1. The freedom to run the program for any purpose
| 2. The freedom to study how the program works and adapt it as desired.
| 3. The freedom to redistribute copies to other people.
| 4. The freedom to improve the program and release these improvements to
| the public.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/14546/1054/
Related:
On Behalf of BusyBox Developers, SFLC Files First Ever U.S. GPL Violation
Lawsuit
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| The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) today announced that it has filed the
| first ever U.S. copyright infringement lawsuit based on a violation of the
| GNU General Public License (GPL)...
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http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,182497.shtml
New Method To Detect and Prove GPL Violations
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| "A paper to be presented at the upcoming academic conference Automated
| Software Engineering describes a new method to detect code theft and could be
| used to detect GPL violations in particular. While the co-called birthmarking
| method is demonstrated for Java, it is general enough to work for other
| languages as well..."
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http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/25/1648253&from=rss
German Court convicted Skype of violating the GPL
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| German district court Munich has convicted Skype of violating the GPL. One of
| the VoIP telephones sold by Skype run Linux, but the GPL text was not handed
| out together with the phone, although the GPL requires that.
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http://liquidat.wordpress.com/2007/07/24/german-court-convicted-skype-of-violating-the-gpl/#comment-27057
German GPL defender claims legal victory
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| Open-source programmer Harald Welte said Thursday he won a civil court
| case in Germany centered on the General Public License (GPL). The license
| governs many open-source projects and permits anyone to use software
| covered by it, but requires that companies incorporating GPL software
| make the underlying source code available.
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http://news.com.com/2061-10795_3-6113453.html?part=rss&tag=6113453&subj=news
gpl-violations.org project prevails in court case on GPL violation by D-Link
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| D-Link Germany GmbH, a subsidiary of D-Link Corporation, Taiwan R.O.C.,
| distributed DSM-G600, a network attached storage (NAS) device which uses a
| Linux-based Operating System. However, this distribution was incompliant
| with the GNU General Public License (GPL) which covers the Linux Kernel and
| many other software programs used in the product.
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http://gpl-violations.org/news/20060922-dlink-judgement_frankfurt.html
Wallace's Appeal Firmly Rejected - GPL Has Nothing to Fear [pdf]
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| PJ: "Just so you know, Daniel Wallace's appeal of the ruling
| against him in his pro se quest to overthrow the GPL on antitrust
| grounds, one of SCO's daydreams too, has been firmly rejected by
| the appeals court, as I knew it would be."
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http://www.groklaw.net/pdf/WallaceAppealRejected.pdf
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