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:

• The SFLC’s press announcement,
• The filing itself,
• Lots of blogs that follow legal open source happenings:
• Luis Villa
• Mark Radcliffe
• Jason Haislmaier

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.)