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FSF Files Suit Against Cisco For GPL Violations

Posted by timothy on 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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  1. This is why copyright laws are bad by Throtex · · Score: 5, Funny

    They allow abusive entities such as the Free Software Foundation to go after Cisco. If only the software was distributed without cumbersome GLP and LGPL licensing restrictions, and was truly free like software wants to be, then Cisco wouldn't have been forced to violate the licenses.

    For shame.

    1. Re:This is why copyright laws are bad by Amazing+Quantum+Man · · Score: 5, Funny

      Replied Cisco, "Curse you, Stallman!"

      Actually, their exact words were, "Curse you, Stallman! We'd have gotten away with it, too; if it wasn't for you meddling kids!"

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      Fascism starts when the efficiency of the government becomes more important than the rights of the people.
    2. Re:This is why copyright laws are bad by Hal_Porter · · Score: 5, Funny

      How "free" is your iPhone?

      Free as in stolen.

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      echo -e 'global _start\n _start:\n mov eax, 2\n int 80h\n jmp _start' > a.asm; nasm a.asm -f elf; ld a.o -o a;
    3. Re:This is why copyright laws are bad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      That's what she said!

      Oh...uhhh, nevermind.

  2. Get the name right by SnarfQuest · · Score: 5, Funny

    Get the name right. It's Gnu/Cisco.

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    Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.