Allnet GPL Infringement Settled Constructively

Elektroschock writes "LWN has coverage of a GPL dispute settled in a constructive manner. Allnet GmbH, German manufacturer and distributor of networking equipment, including switches, routers, NICs and wireless adapters, infringed the GNU Public License of netfilter/iptables. As part of the settlement Allnet GmbH will donate money to tax-exempt not-for-profit organizations, i.e. FSF Europe and FFII. Both organisations lobby for better copyright and patent legislation in Europe."

Comments

Cold Spine Shiver

[Mork29]

Wow... people resolving lawsuits....GPL related... and it's on slashdot.... I... I'm speechless... I want to make fun of somebody and talk about how sucky the world is... i..i... can't.....

Re:Cold Spine Shiver

[mattjb0010]

I want to make fun of somebody and talk about how sucky the world is

You'll just have to wait for the next SCO story then. Patience is a virtue. So is agreeing to abide by the GPL.

Re:Cold Spine Shiver

[upside]

Don't worry, we can still turn this into a
- Windows vs Linux
- Linux vs *BSD
- America vs Europe
- Conservative vs Liberal
or
- Everyone vs Mac flamewar

Re:Cold Spine Shiver

[BabyDave]

Don't worry, we can still turn this into a [foo vs. bar] flamewar

Yeah, you upsiders would love that, wouldn't you!

Re:Cold Spine Shiver

[kfg]

Hey, you left out the Confucian, Tierra del Fuego Ona, BeOS users, you insensitive clod!

KFG

Re:Cold Spine Shiver

[Veridium]

Only a nazi would suggest that!

Re:Cold Spine Shiver

[Elektroschock]

* windows vs. linux

Well, IPtables is part of the Linux Kernel.

* Linux vs. *BSD

Under a BSD license Alltechs action wopuld be legal.

* America vs. Europe

In America it would have been a campaign like SCo's. Stallman cries loud echoed by 200 mailing lists As Alltech "stole Linux" Alltech must be owned by Linus. A German world conpiracy, a takeover of the internet backbone
the press writes, the case show the legal incertainties of the GPL. No 3 billion$ as Alltech does not have three billion.

* conservative vs. liberal

I am conservative, I like liberal licenses

* everyone vs. MAC

humm, Mac do hav a license? How is the Mac Eula of this proprietary platform called. :-)

Re:Cold Spine Shiver

[Anonymous Coward]

You idiot! Everybody knows that foo and bar together (such a lovely couple) beats the living shit out of either one alone. Anybody who thinks otherwise is FUBAR! Death to anyone who tries to set foo and bar against each other!

Re:Comic Book Guy

[malignatus]

No, no. I don't think you understand. This is /. CBG is never offtopic.

AAAAAAARRRGH!

[darnok]

I've been taught that copyright infringement is really piracy, so these guys are pirates!

AAAAAARRRGH! Ye knows whats we does with pirates, don't ye? We keelhauls them, we do, matey!

More seriously, I'm dying to hear of one, just *one*, case of GPL infringement by a RIAA member organisation. Oh, the fun we'll have...

Hey!

[AlXtreme]

You forgot emacs vs vim!

Damn kids these days, they just don't know how to start a proper flamewar...

Re:Hey!

[kfg]

Of course, on the system *I* administrate, vi is symlinked to ed.
Emacs has been replaced by a shell script which 1) Generates a syslog
message at level LOG_EMERG; 2) reduces the user's disk quota by 100K;
and 3) RUNS ED!!!!!!

Ed is for those who can *remember* what they are working on. If you
are an idiot, you should use Emacs. If you are an Emacs, you should
not be vi. If you use ED, you are on THE PATH TO REDEMPTION. THE
SO-CALLED "VISUAL" EDITORS HAVE BEEN PLACED HERE BY ED TO TEMPT THE
FAITHLESS. DO NOT GIVE IN!!! THE MIGHTY ED HAS SPOKEN!!!

--Patrick J. LoPresti

KFG

Re:Hey!

[kfg]

Yeah. I lost it in the cut and paste. That's the trouble with Slashdot. No support for ed.

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