Re: [ilugd] [X-POSTED] First GPL violation filed in USA

2007-09-22 Thread Linux Lingam
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. This appears to be

Re: [ilugd] [X-POSTED] First GPL violation filed in USA

2007-09-22 Thread Jasbir Khehra
On 9/22/07, Raj Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 21 September 2007 12:15, Jasbir Khehra wrote: > > [snip] > > Therefore, is my assumption correct that to enforce GPL compilance , > > the complainant has to be one of the following two individuals : > >a) Author of a GPLed software >

Re: [ilugd] [X-POSTED] First GPL violation filed in USA

2007-09-21 Thread Raj Mathur
On Friday 21 September 2007 12:15, Jasbir Khehra wrote: > [snip] > Just going through the case , the 'complainant' ( or 'plantiffs' ) > are the copyright holders of that particular software and hence the > basis of their case. > Therefore, is my assumption correct that to enforce GPL compilance ,

Re: [ilugd] [X-POSTED] First GPL violation filed in USA

2007-09-21 Thread Linux Lingam
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 v

Re: [ilugd] [X-POSTED] First GPL violation filed in USA

2007-09-20 Thread Jasbir Khehra
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. This appears to be

Re: [ilugd] [X-POSTED] First GPL violation filed in USA

2007-09-20 Thread Gaurav Mishra
On 9/21/07, Raj Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Story at: http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070920153227686 > Nice, will follow up for some interesting updates -- See you at 'Freed.in - freedom in technology & software' - India's leading free and open source community event. 28-

[ilugd] [X-POSTED] First GPL violation filed in USA

2007-09-20 Thread Raj Mathur
-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. This appears to be primarily a precedent-setting action, since MM had alread