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Friday, September 21, 2007

Lawsuit Charges Open-Source License Violation

In what may be the first action of its kind in the U.S., a lawsuit has been filed to enforce an open-source license.

Nancy Gohring, IDG News Service



Friday, September 21, 2007 7:00 AM PDT

In what may be the first action of its kind in the U.S., the Software Freedom Law Center has filed a lawsuit to enforce an open-source license.

The SFLC filed the suit on Wednesday in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York against Monsoon Multimedia Inc., on behalf of the developers of BusyBox, Erik Andersen and Rob Landley. The suit charges Monsoon with using BusyBox under the GNU General Public License version 2 but failing to publish its source code. Under the terms of the license, distributors of software that uses the licensed software must make their source code available. Failing to do so is considered copyright infringement.

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