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The only problem is that like most lawsuits most of the money received goes to pay the lawyers and all the court related costs. Even if settling out of court is cheaper than a trial it's still very expensive.
BusyBox settles another lawsuit
Posted Mar 6, 2008 22:07 UTC (Thu) by landley (guest, #6789) [Link]
The SFLC does this stuff pro bono for open source projects. It's very nice. :)
Posted Mar 7, 2008 0:05 UTC (Fri) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330) [Link]
They are a nonprofit, and I'm sure that their pay scale is low, so it isn't like they're getting rich on this.
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