[...] Find All About News Updated and Events or Everything Here at World Flat wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt The SFLC has settled yet another GPL lawsuit, this time agreeing to dismiss its case against High-Gain Antennas. Similar to prior agreements to comply, the latest GPL settlement comes with some key requirements for the defendant, which was sued for distributing GPL’d BusyBox code in its wireless connectivity devices without properly sharing source code. To dismiss the case, High-Gain Antennas has agreed to appoint an open source compliance officer, publish source code for the version of BusyBox [...]

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[...] while there are things FOSS vendors and groups can do to stop the misuse of FOSS code and the term ‘open source‘ there is little that can be done to prevent the benefits of [...]

[...] There was a major open source legal development this week and surprisingly, it did not involve the string of BusyBox lawsuits, which included settlement from mobile and telecom giant Verizon in March 2008. [...]

[...] many are indicating there is likely a fight ahead. However, based on previous lawsuits and resulting settlements, including a suit and settlement against telco giant Verizon, I think the more likely result is [...]

[...] sued networking and IT giant Cisco late last year, others (including me) anticipated a settlement along the lines of previous resolutions between free and open source software proponents and users/vendors that [...]

[...] of the first group are being dealt with one at a time by the SFLC. With reference to the second group it is important to note that contributing [...]

[...] transparency aren’t entirely comfortable with the unspecified monetary payments included in previous settlements. Now even some BusyBox developers are questioning the [...]