The next round of BusyBox lawsuits

[Posted November 20, 2007 by corbet]

The Software Freedom Law Center has sent out a press release stating that it has filed two more GPL-infringement lawsuits on behalf of the BusyBox developers. The defendants this time around are Xterasys Corporation and High-Gain Antennas LLC.

The next round of BusyBox lawsuits

Posted Nov 20, 2007 19:03 UTC (Tue) by manuel.flury (guest, #7880) [Link] (2 responses)

Great.

Doing this dirty job is necessary for the GPL to be respected everywhere.

The next round of BusyBox lawsuits

Posted Nov 20, 2007 19:41 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (1 responses)

Plus the list of busybox violators always was notably enormous. Maybe this 
will scare some of the others into compliance :)

The next round of BusyBox lawsuits

Posted Nov 20, 2007 23:09 UTC (Tue) by landley (guest, #6789) [Link]

They've already settled out of court with buckets of companies.

They've been _trying_ to settle out of court with Xterasys, for 
compliance rather than money, since...

/me checks email...

May, apparently.

*shrug*

The next round of BusyBox lawsuits

Posted Nov 27, 2007 22:06 UTC (Tue) by rwuest (guest, #32932) [Link]

It always baffles me when I read something like this.  How can a business not know that they
have the obligation to distribute source?  I won't believe them if they claim ignorance, the
GPL is just not that hard to understand.  They must think the copyright holders won't do
anything about it.  Looks like they're wrong this time :).  Go busybox!

Robert