Posted on August 15, 2008 by jasonhaislmaier
While much of the open source community was in San Francisco last week at the LinuxWorld Expo , I was in New York at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Bar Association (ABA) speaking at the “Life after GPLv3: New Developments in Open Source Software Licensing” event organized by the ABA Section of Intellectual [...]
Filed under: Busybox, Erik Andersen, GPL, GPLv3, Microsoft, Open Source, Presentations and Panels, Rob Landley, SFLC | Tagged: ABA, Busybox, FSF, IBM, Illardi, Markwith, Microsoft, SFLC | Leave a Comment »
Posted on July 22, 2008 by jasonhaislmaier
Adding to the already substantial list of lawsuits filed on behalf of its clients Erik Andersen and Rob Landley (the two principal developers of the BusyBox open source utility), the The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) has announced today the filing of yet another suit alleging copyright infringement based on a violation of version 2 [...]
Filed under: Busybox, Erik Andersen, GPL, Law, News and Alerts, Open Source, Rob Landley, SFLC | Tagged: Extreme Networks, Summit X450 | 1 Comment »
Posted on June 10, 2008 by jasonhaislmaier
The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) has announced today that it has filed a new round of 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). [...]
Filed under: Busybox, Erik Andersen, GPL, Law, News and Alerts, Open Source, Rob Landley, SFLC | Tagged: Bell Micro, MyShare HN1200 network attached storage device, OC-SIM1U+ IPMI 2.0 System Management Card, Super Micro | Leave a Comment »
Posted on April 5, 2008 by jasonhaislmaier
Last week marked the completion of another very successful Open Source Buinsess Conference (OSBC) in San Francsico. Presentations from OSBC 2008 are now online.
Included among those presentations is my presentation on Putting Open Source Compliance to Work (On Your Own Terms). The presentation covers a lot of ground, but is focused on providing companies that [...]
Filed under: Admin, Busybox, GPL, News and Alerts, Open Source, Presentations and Panels | Tagged: Compliance, Open Source Business Conference, OSBC 2008, San Francisco | Leave a Comment »
Posted on March 18, 2008 by jasonhaislmaier
The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) announced on Monday that an agreement has been reached to dismiss the lawsuit brought by Eric Andersen and Rob Landley, the two principal developers of the BusyBox open source software utility, against telecommunications giant Verizon Communications alleging that Verizon violated version 2 of the GNU General Public License (GPL) [...]
Filed under: Busybox, Erik Andersen, GPL, Law, Monsoon Multimedia, News and Alerts, Open Source, Rob Landley, SFLC | Tagged: High-Gain, Verizon Communications, Xterasys | 1 Comment »
