FSF Files Suit Against Cisco For GPL Violations

Posted by timothy on Thursday December 11, 2008 @06:20AM from the was-that-print-too-fine-for-you? dept.

Brett Smith writes "This morning the Free Software Foundation filed suit against Cisco for violations of the GPL and LGPL. There's a blog post with background about the case. The full complaint is available too." The short version, as excerpted by reader byolinux, is that "in the course of distributing various products under the Linksys brand Cisco has violated the licenses of many programs on which the FSF holds copyright, including GCC, binutils, and the GNU C Library. In doing so, Cisco has denied its users their right to share and modify the software."

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Re:This is why copyright laws are bad by geminidomino · 2008-12-11 06:58 · Score: 0, Flamebait

BSD and the like are more "free" for the developer / manufacturer while GPL is more "free" for the user / recipient of the software.
Which license that is more free depends on whose freedom one is concerned about.
Neither is more "free" for the user. Both are distribution licenses and don't cover use. If the recipient wants to change and distribute the source code, he is a developer. Point: BSD-like.