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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. NO IT DOESNT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

    THE FIRST US GPL CASE TOOK TWO YEARS TO SETTLE

    http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20050225223848129

  2. Re:Nice to see a company admit it's mistake by JimDaGeek · · Score: 4, Informative

    Do you work for this company?

    If you read TFA, Monsoon didn't do Sh!t until lawyers got involved. The developers of BusyBox tried to settle things "under the radar". If Monsoon was a company with any morals, they would have corrected their mistake(s) then. However, they did not. It wasn't until a lawsuit came and bad press came that they did what they should have done from the get-go.

    So no, it is not "nice to see that Monsoon is able to admit" anything. They basically said F-U until legal measures were taken. If BusyBox didn't have the ability to get support in fighting this, Monsoon would still be violating the GPL and saying F-U to the developers.

    There is nothing "insightful" about the GP (I don't mean that to offend you GP). This sounds like typical corporate crap. Monsoon continued in their infringement after being notified. Monsoon did nothing until legal matters were taken. Now Monsoon is all like "we 'intended' to comply and we will comply". BS.

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