Re: Open source software developers sue Verizon; Claim FiOS violates GPL

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Tom Gray <tom_gray_grc () yahoo com>
Date: December 12, 2007 3:20:17 PM EST
To: dave () farber net, tom_gray_grc () yahoo com
Subject: Re: [IP] Open source software developers sue Verizon; Claim  
FiOS violates GPL

Prof Faber

For your IP list, if you think it suitable.

I wonder if the prolifieration of open source and open
source law suits will tend to stifle innovation. This
law suit is looking for an injunction on the use of a
piece of software. This is the ultimate penalty in
patent law and one that is not causally given.

Tom Gray


--- David Farber <dave () farber net> wrote:

> Begin forwarded message:
>
> From: dewayne () warpspeed com (Dewayne Hendricks)
> Date: December 11, 2007 3:52:07 PM EST
> To: Dewayne-Net Technology List
> <xyzzy () warpspeed com>
> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Open source software
> developers sue Verizon;
> Claim FiOS violates GPL
>
> Open source software developers sue Verizon; Claim
> FiOS violates GPL
> Information Week
> By Paul McDougall
>
> In what could become a major test case for the most
> widely used open
> source software license, a group that represents
> open source
> developers has sued Verizon Communications --
> claiming that the
> telecom giant's FiOS broadband service violates the
> terms of the GNU
> General Public License.
>
> In court papers filed Friday, The Software Freedom
> Law Center
> maintains Verizon's use of an open source program
> called BusyBox in
> FiOS violates version 2 the GPL because Verizon has
> not made the
> product's source code available to its customers--as
> the license
> requires.
>
> Since November 2006, "Verizon has distributed to the
> public copies of
> the firmware in the infringing product, and none of
> these
> distributions included source code to BusyBox or
> offers to provide
> such code," SFLC alleges in its complaint, which was
> filed in federal
> court in New York.
<http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=204800422
> >
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