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GPL scores another win
Mar. 07, 2008

The Software Freedom Law Center and High-Gain Antennas jointly announced March 6 that High-Gain will conform to the General Public License and that as a result the SFLC will dismiss its GPL lawsuit.

The suit began when the developers of BusyBox, a set of embedded Unix utilities licensed under the GPLv2, asked High-Gain to provide access to its source code, which used BusyBox code. The company didn't respond, so BusyBox brought the licensing disagreement to the SFLC's attention.

High-Gain, which uses the BusyBox code in several of its Wi-Fi devices, has agreed to publish the code and to appoint an open-source compliance officer to make sure the company doesn't violate the GPL again. BusyBox's developers, Erik Andersen and Rob Landley, also received a financial settlement.

"We are extremely pleased to have resolved this matter and wish High-Gain Antennas all the best," Dan Ravicher, the SFLC's legal director, said in a statement.

"This has been an education about the GPL—one that all manufacturers and resellers need to be up to speed on," Richard Bruckner, CEO and founder of High-Gain Antennas, said in a statement.

Bruckner also said he appreciated that "BusyBox was very open to learning what our position is in the wireless marketplace, and the quick dismissal shows the effort made by BusyBox to assist in the education of GPL compliancy without seeking costly and unnecessary litigation."

BusyBox and the SFLC's biggest litigation target, Verizon, have yet to agree to a settlement. Jim Garrison, the SFLC's public relations coordinator, did tell Linux-Watch, however, "We're in settlement talks with them."


-- Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols



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