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First US GPL Lawsuit Heads For Quick Settlement

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the owning-up-shows-character dept.

DeviceGuru writes to tell us that the first lawsuit centered around the GPL seems to have been quickly resolved outside of the courtroom. Monsoon Multimedia was quick to admit that they had violated the GPLv2 in their modified BusyBox code and will soon be releasing the source to come into full compliance with the license.

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  1. Cue Amelia from slayers by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: 4, Funny

    Victory!!! ^_^

  2. Aha! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    1. Violate GPL
    2. Get sued and get massive publicity for your little device that's actually kinda cool, then settle
    3. Profit!

  3. Bargaining chip by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 3, Funny

    They did not win on technical grounds, and any sane (or insane) lawyer would have done the same.
    They backed down once they found out RMS might be called to testify.

    In reality, this means that there is still no precedent for the GPL in court which is a shame.

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    1. Re:Bargaining chip by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Yeah, his B.O. is considered a weapon of mass destruction.

  4. Re:Call the Grammar Nazi by KermodeBear · · Score: 3, Funny

    Does definition determine usage or does usage determine definition?

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  5. Conspiracy theory in favor of Monsoon by tygt · · Score: 4, Funny
    Ok I really don't know anything about this, but... what if Monsoon is actually on the tux side and wanted to provide an opportunity for a court case which they were already planning on caving on, just so that others would think "well you *can* get sued and those guys caved".

    I know, far fetched. But still, I love a good conspiracy theory.

  6. Re:Precedent by maxume · · Score: 4, Funny

    Only the sandman can loose sleep. Other creatures occasionally lose it though.

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