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Public release of the source code
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| The source code of Postgres-R has been released to the public, today. The
| project leader Markus Wanner has posted a patch to the Postgres-hackers
| mailing list and started the discussion on mostly technical aspects of the
| system. He invited the community to take a look and comment, in the hope that
| this project will soon be ready for production use.
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http://www.postgres-r.org/about/news/source_code_release
SFLC Files GPL Violation Lawsuit Against Extreme Networks, Inc.
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| The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) today announced that it has filed a
| copyright infringement lawsuit against Extreme Networks, Inc. on behalf of
| its clients, two principal developers of BusyBox, alleging violation of the
| GNU General Public License (GPL).
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http://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/2008/jul/21/busybox/
Recent:
Compro Technology accused of GPL violation
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| An eagle-eyed user of the Linux Kernel Mailing List archive, going by the
| name of Jo Shields (who many of you may know), has accused Compro Technology
| of violating the General Public License (GPL).
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http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=13430
First Understand the GPL! (Then Comply!)
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| Do your homework! Document yourself from Warren's case with MEPIS from 2006,
| when he also misunderstood the requirements of GPLv2 and «thought» he only
| had to be able to provide somehow «only the modified sources»!
|
| No. The GPL requires (section 3) you to be able to: (i) either provide the
| FULL, COMPLETE sources; (ii) or come with a written offer (valid for at least
| 3 years! can you guarantee that?) that you can provide the FULL, COMPLETE
| sources. You can charge for the cost of physically making and sending
| CDs/DVDs, if this is the case.
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http://beranger.org/index.php?page=diary&2008/05/20/07/13/57-first-understand-the-gpl-then-co
The GPL Wins Again - Welte vs. Skype Technologies SA (Germany)
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| Well, today was the hearing, and Welte reports that one of the judges told
| Skype's lawyer that if a copyright owner wants a publisher to publish his
| book in a green envelope, it might seem odd to the publisher, but he can't
| publish without the green envelope. In short, don't touch the GPL code if you
| don't follow the requirements of the license.
|
| Like it or lump it. I think that's how one would translate into English the
| judge's mindset.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080508212535665
Related:
Another GPL Lawsuit is Settled
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| Third lawsuit over open source license violations is now closed. This time,
| it's a 'learning experience.'
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http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3732511/BusyBox+Settles+Another+GPL+Lawsuit.htm
BusyBox and Xterasys Settle GPL Lawsuit
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| BusyBox has just successfully settled its GPL ligitation against Xterasys.
| Xterasys has agreed to stop all binary distribution of BusyBox until the
| Software Freedom Law Center confirms that it has published complete source
| code on its web site.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20071217142920618
BusyBox Developers, SFLC Sue Verizon for GPL Infringement
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| The same two principal developers already successfully sued Monsoon Media,
| and they have litigation pending against Xterasys Corporation and High-Gain
| Antennas, LLC. Here is the press release from the Software Freedom Law Center
| on the Verizon suit, followed by the complaint as text.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2007120713435029
Verizon Being Sued for GPL Infringement
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| According to the SFLC, Verizon can be added to the list of companies
| infringing on the GPL. They filed a lawsuit in New York yesterday (pdf)
| alleging that the company is handing out routers using the GPL'd
| software 'BusyBox' without accompanying source code.
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http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/07/1953217&from=rss
Second Round of GPL Infringement Lawsuits Filed on Behalf of BusyBox Developers
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| The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) today announced that it has filed two
| more copyright infringement lawsuits on behalf of its clients, two principal
| developers of BusyBox, alleging violation of the GNU General Public License
| (GPL). The defendants in the lawsuits are Xterasys Corporation and High-Gain
| Antennas, LLC. BusyBox is a lightweight set of standard Unix utilities
| commonly used in embedded systems and is open source software licensed under
| GPL version 2.
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http://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/2007/nov/20/busybox/
Is the Monsoon settlement a missed opportunity?
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| Certainly more was hoped for from the first US GPL lawsuit. “This case is
| very important because it will establish what type of remedies (either
| contract or copyright) are available to licensors for breach of the GPLv2,”
| wrote Mark Radcliffe at the time the complaint was filed.
|
| However, for those looking for legal precedent, all may not be lost. “Stay
| tuned, however, as this is likely not the last lawsuit we will see here in
| the U.S. to enforce the terms of the GPL,” notes Haislmaier.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2007/10/31/is-the-monsoon-settlement-a-missed-opportunity/
Do Microsoft's EULAs have any real legal basis?
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| "Microsoft has no special exemption from the sale of goods act." Well,
| no, probably not - but it might still be selling you "services"
| instead of "goods". But the real point to remember is that it doesn't
| matter a jot what the "logical" position is, it is what the courts
| decide that matters.
|
| As far as I know, no one has tested Microsoft's EULAs in a UK court
| and, until someone does, Microsoft will just go on assuming that they
| work. And I don't fancy the risk of taking on Microsoft's expensive
| lawyers in court myself...
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http://www.regdeveloper.co.uk/2007/04/25/microsoft_eula/
BusyBox Developers and Monsoon Multimedia Agree to Dismiss GPL Lawsuit
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| The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) and Monsoon Multimedia today jointly
| announced that an agreement has been reached to dismiss the GPL enforcement
| lawsuit filed by SFLC on behalf of two principal developers of BusyBox.
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http://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/2007/oct/30/busybox-monsoon-settlement/
And Just Like That, The Games End — First Ever GPL Lawsuit Dismissed
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| In the agreement to dismiss the lawsuit, the SFLC is reporting that Monsoon
| Multimedia has agreed to appoint an “Open Source Compliance Officer” within
| its organization “to monitor and ensure GPL compliance, to publish the source
| code for the version of BusyBox it previously distributed on its web site,
| and to undertake substantial efforts to notify previous recipients of BusyBox
| from Monsoon Multimedia of their rights to the software under the GPL.
|
| [...]
|
| Stay tuned, however, as this is likely not the last lawsuit we will see here
| in the U.S. to enforce the terms of the GPL.
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http://thinkingopen.wordpress.com/2007/10/30/and-just-like-that-the-games-end-first-ever-gpl-lawsuit-dismissed/
SFLC: Setting Legal Precedent Not the Goal of GPL Case
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| Software Freedom Law Center co-founder Dan Ravicher says the Center’s
| copyright infringement case against Monsoon Multimedia on behalf of the
| creators of BusyBox is not about setting legal precedent for the use and
| interpretation of the GNU General Public License.
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http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/osb/?p=241
GPL defenders say: See you in court
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| The license also requires anyone distributing GPL software, in an executable
| form that a computer can run, to make the complete source code available. One
| example: Cisco Systems subsidiary Linksys, which shares the GPL software
| used in its wireless networking equipment.
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http://www.news.com/GPL-defenders-say-See-you-in-court/2100-7344_3-6210837.html
First U.S. GPL lawsuit heads for quick settlement
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| The first U.S. GPL-related lawsuit appears to be headed for a quick
| out-of-court settlement. Monsoon Multimedia admitted today that it had
| violated the GPLv2 (GNU General Public License version 2), and said it will
| release its modified BusyBox code in full compliance with the license.
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http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS3761924232.html
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
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