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WTF with these lawsuit
you know these lawsuits is starting to get lame.I mean i understand that if you feel that your right or product was violated or compromise then you should take action by mediate among the peers first..
check this out Best Buy, Samsung, others named in GPL suit “ Quote ”Best Buy, Samsung, Westinghouse, and JVC are among 14 consumer electronics companies named in a copyright infringement lawsuit filed Monday in New York by the Software Freedom Law Center.
According to the complaint (PDF), the defendants sold products containing software application BusyBox in violation of the terms of its license, the GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2). The entire list of companies named in the suit is as follows: Best Buy; Samsung; Westinghouse; JVC; Western Digital; Robert Bosch; Phoebe Micro; Humax USA; Comtrend; Dobbs-Stanford; Versa Technology; Zyxel Communications; Astak; GCI Technologies. source info |
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Re: WTF with these lawsuit
wow so basically what this is saying is this if not mistaking and correct me if im wrong...
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Re: WTF with these lawsuit
“ Originally Posted by D/\SH ”wow so basically what this is saying is this if not mistaking and correct me if im wrong...
the problem i think is gpl source code is free, but you can't profit from it as i believe that is whats going on..If they were smart they should have got a conditional use of the codes and all the money they made , they should donate to them for the development beings that its free |
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Re: WTF with these lawsuit
“ Originally Posted by puertoblack2003 ”the problem i think is gpl source code is free, but you can't profit from it as i believe that is whats going on..If they were smart they should have got a conditional use of the codes and all the money they made , they should donate to them for the development beings that its free
true, and i wonder what products they could be going after best buy for..... the only one i can think of possibly is their home brand insignia. or geek squad perhaps for using their version of the hirens boot disc. |
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Re: WTF with these lawsuit
its standard in lawsuit because bestbuy is carrying the product..
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