A GPL compliance case against Iliad
A GPL compliance case against Iliad
[Announcements] Posted Nov 19, 2007 16:41 UTC (Mon) by corbet
Harald Welte, who recently announced
his departure from OpenMoko, has lost little time in getting back into the
GPL compliance arena. A release has been sent out (click below for the
full text) stating that Harald and others are going to court to get Iliad
(a French telecom company) to release the source for the GPL-licensed code
shipped in its "Freebox" set-top box.
"At the same time, a donation campaign has been launched to try and
cover the procedural expenses and lawyers' fees. For the writers, this
is a 'real challenge', the necessary sum already amounting to €25.000,
and subject to increase should Iliad not withdraw.
" More
information is available on the
campaign web site.