Settlement Reached in Verizon GPL Violation Suit

eldavojohn writes "A settlement has been reached in the Verizon GPLv2 violation suit. The now famous BusyBox developers, Erick Andersen and Rob Landley, will receive an undisclosed sum from subcontractor Actiontec Electronics. 'Actiontec supplied Verizon with wireless routers for its FiOS broadband service that use an open source program called BusyBox. BusyBox developers Andersen and Landley in December sued Verizon -- claiming that the usage violated terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License.'"

Comments

Cha-ching!

[Citizen of Earth]

And people say you can't make money by giving your software away.

Re:Now that they have the money..

[ColdWetDog]

This isn't even apples and oranges. It's apples and school bus yellow race cars.

You've managed to create a car analogy without really creating a car analogy. This is almost as good as recursion.

Congrats!

Re:Actually the software was free

[swillden]

hording the source code

How does source code horde?

I have this image of millions of angry lines of code rampaging across the steppings, raping and pillaging peaceful programs, stealing their output and burning their execution platforms.

Oh, right. You meant "hoarding the source code". Sorry, my bad.

Re:Actually the software was free

[vertinox]

I have this image of millions of angry lines of code rampaging across the steppings, raping and pillaging peaceful programs, stealing their output and burning their execution platforms.

Thats odd. Thats exactly what it says on the Windows ME warranty disclaimer.