On 9/21/07, Raj Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > The first lawsuit for GPL violation in the USA has been filed yesterday > against Monsoon Multimedia, who were distributing busybox without > making the source code available.
yup! it's a gpl2 violation, not a gpl3 violation. >This appears to be primarily a > precedent-setting action, [snip]..it would be a big step for GPL > compliance in the US, and hopefully could also be used to get a > precedent in India and other countries. India? hehehee, YES. well, there's more to the story than meets the eye, but anecdotal. monsoon multimedia http://monsoonmultimedia.com/, also has an office in india, right here in greater noida: http://monsoonmultimedia.com/contactus.html i reckon the said device, hava, was partly developed here in india, but ymmv, esp given that they are on the agra express highway. if there's anyone on the mailing list from monsoonM, would be nice to hear your point-of-view... :-) niyam _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
