Posted on March 5, 2008 by jasonhaislmaier
News today from the Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York that Eric Andersen and Rob Landley, the two principal developers of the BusyBox open source utility, have moved to voluntarily dismiss the case they brought again High-Gain Antennas alleging that High-Gain had violated the GNU General Public License (GPL) by distributing [...]
Filed under: Alert, Busybox, Erik Andersen, GPL, Intellectual Property, Law, News and Alerts, Rob Landley, SFLC | Tagged: High-Gain Antennas | Leave a Comment »
Posted on December 7, 2007 by jasonhaislmaier
The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) has announced that it has filed yet another lawsuit on behalf of its clients Erik Andersen and Rob Landley (the two principal developers of the BusyBox open source utility) alleging copyright infringement based on a violation of version 2 of the GNU General Public License (GPL). The defendant in [...]
Filed under: Alert, Erik Andersen, GPL, Open Source, Rob Landley, SFLC | Tagged: Busybox, Compliance, Erik Andersen, GPL, Infringement, Law, Monsoon Multimedia, News and Alerts, Open Source, Rob Landley, SFLC, Verizon Alert | 3 Comments »
Posted on November 21, 2007 by jasonhaislmaier
The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) has announced that it has filed two additional lawsuits on behalf of its clients Erik Andersen and Rob Landley (the two principal developers of the BusyBox open source utility) alleging copyright infringement based on a violation of version 2 of the GNU General Public License (GPL). The defendants in [...]
Filed under: Alert, Busybox, Compliance, Erik Andersen, GPL, Infringement, Law, Monsoon Multimedia, News and Alerts, Open Source, Rob Landley, SFLC | Tagged: High-Gain Antennas, Xterasys Corporation | 2 Comments »
Posted on November 19, 2007 by jasonhaislmaier
The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced the release of version 3 of the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPLv3). AGPLv3 is based on version 3 of the GNU General Public License (GPLv3), but has an additional term to allow users who interact with AGPLv3-licensed software over a network to receive the source code [...]
Filed under: Alert, GPLv3, Licensing, Open Source | Tagged: AGPLv3, Free Software FOundation, FSF, GNU | Leave a Comment »
Posted on September 20, 2007 by jasonhaislmaier
It was announced earlier today that the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) has filed a lawsuit on behalf of two of its clients alleging copyright infringement based on a violation of version 2 of the GNU General Public License (GPL). This lawsuit is significant in that it represents the first lawsuit ever filed in [...]
Filed under: Alert, Busybox, Erik Andersen, GPL, Law, Monsoon Multimedia, Open Source, Rob Landley, SFLC, Updates | 7 Comments »
