*Source: CIO Today (
http://www.cio-today.com/news/Will-F...11100DEWFC09)*
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On Thursday, the free software world saw a first. The Software Freedom Law Center announced that it filed the first-ever U.S. copyright infringement lawsuit based on a violation of the GNU General Public License (GPL) on behalf of its clients.
The plaintiffs are the two principal developers of BusyBox, a set of Unix utilities for embedded systems. BusyBox is open-source software licensed under GPL version 2. The defendant in the case is Monsoon Multimedia. The lawsuit was filed in Manhattan Federal District Court.
"We licensed BusyBox under the GPL to give users the freedom to access and modify its source code," Erik Andersen, a developer of BusyBox and a named plaintiff, said in a statement. "If companies will not abide by the fair terms of our license, then we have no choice but to ask our attorneys to go to court to force them to do so."
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