In Israel, Class-Action Plaintiff Requests Waze Source Code Under GPL

Posted by timothy on Thursday March 27, 2014 @03:46AM from the just-want-to-take-a-look-around dept.

jonklinger (1166633) writes "A class action lawsuit was brought against Waze (a community-based traffic and navigation app), claiming that their source code and map data were licensed to Waze by the community under the GPL. The plaintiff, Roey Gorodish, requests a copy of the recent source code and map data. This is (as far as I know) the first ever GPL class action suit, too bad it will be quashed by bad facts later as I see it." Google seems to do a credible translation of this source article.

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A far more interesting story by phozz+bare · 2014-03-27 04:33 · Score: 4, Interesting

I believe a far more interesting story about Waze has eluded Slashdot:
Two Technion students reverse-engineered Waze's method for detecting a traffic jam, then created a network of fake clients that reported traffic patterns that caused Waze to mark as jammed what was in reality a perfectly empty road.
Sources: Jerusalem Post, Wired.