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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2007-02-17
It won't go to a court case. Monsoon Multimedia will find that they are obliged by the GPL to publish the source code for BusyBox, and they will determine that they may as well do just that because BusyBox is already open source anyway. This course of action is immeasurably cheaper for Monsoon Multimedia than going to court would be.
As soon as Monsoon Multimedia publish the source code, the whole lawsuit will go away for them.
A similar thing happened recently with a company called "Parallels" and a product for the Apple which used GRUB.