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Suit Claims Diebold Voting Machines Violate GPL

Posted by kdawson on from the insult-to-injury dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Diebold Inc. and its subsidiary, Premier Election Solutions, is using Ghostscript in its electronic election systems even though Diebold and PES 'have not been granted a license to modify, copy, or distribute any of Artifex's copyrighted works,' Artifex claims in court papers filed late last month in US District Court for Northern California. The gs-devel list first brought up the possible GPL violation a year ago."

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  1. Re:Are they distributing the software? by dotancohen · · Score: 5, Interesting

    When they sell the machine to the buyer it is distributing the software that the machine runs.

    Google Linksys, they were in a similar situation a few years ago. I'd love to see the same outcome this time!

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