Hyman Rosen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >In any event, the BusyBox developers seem to have decided that having >the manufacturer provide the GPLed sources is sufficiently in >compliance with the GPL that they chose not to pursue Verizon. As the >copyright holders, that is their privilege.
We should be careful to not draw too broad a conclusion. The BusyBox copyright holders are not pursuing a copyright lawsuit against Verizon but we don't know the reasons. Maybe they wish to conserve their litigation funds and they carefully pick the most cost-effective battles. Or maybe Verizon is sufficiently in compliance as you speculated (although it seems to not be). Or maybe they have discussed the matter with Verizon, and Verizon agreed to take corrective steps in the near future. Or maybe they made some other agreement with Verizon that benefits both parties. Or maybe they are simply biding their time, and think that a small win now against one defendant will help a bigger win later against another. They are not obliged to sue everybody all at once. There could be other reasons that I overlooked that might occur to you if you gave this more thought instead of jumping to a single conclusion. You don't have the whole story and neither do I. -- Rahul http://rahul.rahul.net/ _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
