LWN: Comments on "BusyBox Developers Agree To End GPL Lawsuit Against Verizon"

Apparently, Verizon wasn't distributing?

JoeBuck — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 01:30:28 +0000

It seems to make clear that the responsibility for the violation was Actiontec's.

Actiontec source distribution

salvarsan — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:58:01 +0000

Here:
http://opensource.actiontec.com/index.html

Actiontec's compliance started on a Friday two months ago.

Perhaps this late settlement suggests that Actiontec, despite their eventual compliance, took
no responsibility and referred all legal action to Verizon.

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Apparently, Verizon wasn't distributing?

sepreece — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:21:03 +0000

At the time the suit was announced, there was a lot of discussion (here and in Groklaw) about
whether Verizon actually was subject to GPL terms or not - whether they were distributing the
software, or simply selling/renting boxes that contained software that Actiontec was the
distributor for.

The text of the announcement seems to imply, by omission, that it was not - no mention was
made of Verizon having agreed to do anything differently.