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Monsoon Multimedia GPL lawsuit settled

Monsoon Multimedia GPL lawsuit settled

Posted Oct 30, 2007 18:50 UTC (Tue) by endecotp (guest, #36428)
In reply to: Monsoon Multimedia GPL lawsuit settled by jwb
Parent article: Monsoon Multimedia GPL lawsuit settled

> defendants always capitulate eventually

I think it's hard to say who capitulated without knowing how much the "consideration" was.


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The SFLC achieved their goals

Posted Oct 31, 2007 13:02 UTC (Wed) by emk (subscriber, #1128) [Link]

> I think it's hard to say who capitulated without knowing how much the "consideration" was.

The long-standing policy of the FSF and SFLC has been to achieve compliance with the GPL. They
don't especially want money (though they may ask for it as part of a settlement, generally
when the offending company has been uncooperative).

So if history is any indicator, the SFLC got exactly what they wanted here.

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