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The Software Freedom Law Center has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Verizon Communications, alleging the telecommunications giant is illegally distributing the GPL-licensed BusyBox to Verizon FiOS customers. The complaint alleges that Verizon distributed BusyBox to FiOS customers with Actiontec MI424WR wireless routers, and is obligated to provide BusyBox's source code to its customers under terms of the GPL. BusyBox… Read More

In what may turn out to be an important legal precedent for the open software movement, the Software Freedom Law Center has filed the first U.S. copyright infringement lawsuit over violation of the terms of the GNU General Public License, or GPL. The SFLC's clients? Erik Andersen and Rob Landley, the developers of BusyBox, an application which implements several Unix-like utilities for use in embedded systems. The lawsuit's… Read More