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U.S. GPL lawsuit for BusyBox - profit?

U.S. GPL lawsuit for BusyBox - profit?

Posted Sep 21, 2007 0:54 UTC (Fri) by louie (subscriber, #3285)
In reply to: U.S. GPL lawsuit for BusyBox - profit? by ndye
Parent article: SFLC files first U.S. GPL violation lawsuit

It has been suggested that this is a strategic response to the Jacobsen case, which suggested that the Artistic License was weak in a way which might impact all free/open licenses. I've blogged about the case a bit here, here, and here.


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