Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 23rd Sep 2007 13:31 UTC
The Software Freedom Law Center has filed the first US infringement case to defend the General Public License version 2. The case has been brought against Monsoon Multimedia, a specialist in video viewing and capturing devices, which has offices in Silicon Valley and in New Delhi. SFLC legal director Dan Ravicher told The Register: "This case could have far-reaching implications because it's the first case in the US to enforce copyright in GPL."
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2005-07-12
>> Looking passed your broken English deathshadow...
Conversational prose is not broken English; using the word passed instead of past is - as is your own use of unrelated sentence fragments. Helf hit it on the head - what a maroon, next we'll brake and axel, our troops will go rouge (better dead than red I always say), eco-nuts will try to stop the cutting down of timbre, there'll be ignorant ideas and points will be mute: Oh the humanity!
As to most everyone else who responded so far it looks like nobody got the joke. I KNOW what they mean and what this is about. Just to clarify, my point was this part of the article:
>> Monsoon lost its right to distribute BusyBox code
>> because it was, according to the SFLC, not adhering
>> to the terms of the GPL; it was not distributing
>> machine readable code that would allow end-users of
>> the product to modify the software.
Again I ask: Machine readable code? (and yes, that too is proper English.) Last time I checked the only code that was 'machine readable' was native bytecode, often called an executable or binary. If they didn't include that then they had no product.
Last time I checked the GPL was about source code, not binaries...
Oh, and remind me not to try and use intellectual humor in here - it's apparantly wasted.
Edited 2007-09-23 15:27