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Anderson, et al v. Monsoon Multimedia, Inc.: Out of Court Settlement for First U.S. GPL Lawsuit

Posted on 09/25/2007 by Keith Henning

Monsoon Multimedia admitted that it violated the GPLv2 (GNU General Public License version 2), and said it will release its modified BusyBox code in full compliance with the license.
I have always been skeptical of the GPL. In theory it seems good, but in practice I don’t see that it meshes well with sections 101 and [...]

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