BusyBox Developers File GPL Infringement Lawsuit Against Verizon

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Dec 7, 2007 10:48 PM EDT
Linux-Watch; By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
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The BusyBox developers, with the SFLC, are suing Verizon on the grounds that it is illegally distributing open-source software to its FiOS customers. The SFLC (Software Freedom Law Center) announced on Dec. 7 that it has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Verizon Communications on behalf of its clients, the two principal developers of BusyBox, alleging that Verizon has violated the GNU GPLv2 (General Public License version 2) in its fiber-optic Internet and television service, aka FiOS.

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