Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 24th Sep 2007 17:35 UTC, submitted by Rahul
Monsoon Multimedia, which was subjected to the first US lawsuit on non-compliance with the GPL, has published a press release in which they agree to make any modifications public and thereby complying to the requirements stipulated in the GPL license. "Monsoon Multimedia today announced efforts to fully comply with the GPL. Monsoon is in settlement negotiations with BusyBox to resolve the matter and intends to fully comply with all open-source software license requirements. Monsoon will make modified BusyBox source code publicly available on the company web-site in the coming weeks."
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2005-11-11
"Since we intend to and always intended to comply with all open source software license requirements, we are confident that the matter will be
quickly resolved ... "
If this is the case, how come it came to a lawsuit? Hopefully we can chalk their initial lack of response up to intercontinental communication issues, but why weren't they complying with the license in the first place? Oh well, this seems to be settling out amicably at least
and in reply to the above,
"Homicide bomber" isn't a phrase I like at all. It's redundant. Bombing is about killing people. The thing that separates the stereotypical cafe-bombing terrorist's technique from that of someone in a bomber plane is that the terrorist is committing suicide.