First GPL lawsuit in the US

Posted by Stormy on September 23rd, 2007 in Open Source, Licenses

A couple of days ago the Software Freedom Law Center filed the first GPL violation lawsuit in the US.  Basically they are saying that Monsoon Multimedia is shipping GPL software without the source code (or an offer for the source code.)

You can read about it:

This case just underscores the fact that you have to know what open source software you are using (see our free Discovery tool) and what licenses that software is under (see OLEX, the OpenLogic Exchange.)

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