[Fsf-friends] Fwd: [IP] Open source software developers sue Verizon; Claim FiOS violates GPL

[Frederick Noronha [फ़रेदरिक नोरोनया]]

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From: David Farber <dave at farber.net>
Date: 12 Dec 2007 19:15
Subject: [IP] Open source software developers sue Verizon; Claim FiOS
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From: dewayne at warpspeed.com (Dewayne Hendricks)
Date: December 11, 2007 3:52:07 PM EST
To: Dewayne-Net Technology List <xyzzy at warpspeed.com>
Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Open source software developers sue Verizon;
Claim FiOS violates GPL

Open source software developers sue Verizon; Claim FiOS violates GPL
Information Week
By Paul McDougall

In what could become a major test case for the most widely used open
source software license, a group that represents open source
developers has sued Verizon Communications -- claiming that the
telecom giant's FiOS broadband service violates the terms of the GNU
General Public License.

In court papers filed Friday, The Software Freedom Law Center
maintains Verizon's use of an open source program called BusyBox in
FiOS violates version 2 the GPL because Verizon has not made the
product's source code available to its customers--as the license
requires.

Since November 2006, "Verizon has distributed to the public copies of
the firmware in the infringing product, and none of these
distributions included source code to BusyBox or offers to provide
such code," SFLC alleges in its complaint, which was filed in federal
court in New York.

<http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=204800422
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