First U.S. GPL lawsuit heads for quick settlement

Posted by Sander_Marechal on Sep 25, 2007 11:55 PM EDT
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The first U.S. GPL-related lawsuit appears to be headed for a quick out-of-court settlement. Monsoon Multimedia admitted today that it had violated the GPLv2 (GNU General Public License version 2), and said it will release its modified BusyBox code in full compliance with the license. This matter came to the public attention when the SFLC (Software Freedom Law Center) announced on Sept. 20 that it had just filed the first-ever U.S. copyright infringement lawsuit based on a violation of the GPL on behalf of its clients, BusyBox's two principal developers

[Oops. Beaten to it by Scott Ruecker. See this article. – Sander]

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