Settlement reached in Busybox-Monsoon GPL case

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Oct 31, 2007 2:31 AM EDT
Linux.com; By Bruce Byfield
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A settlement has been reached in the case filed last month against Monsoon Multimedia by the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) on behalf of two BusyBox developers. BusyBox is a collection of lightweight, standard utilities that is often used in embedded devices -- and has also been the victim of at least 18 possible license violations in the past. As reported earlier on Linux.com, the case concerned Monsoon's shipment of code borrowed from BusyBox, in a product called Hava -- without any accompanying offer of source code, as required by the GNU General Public License (GPL), under which BusyBox is released.

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