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From: dewayne@warpspeed.com (Dewayne Hendricks) Date: December 11, 2007 3:52:07 PM EST To: Dewayne-Net Technology List xyzzy@warpspeed.com Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Open source software developers sue Verizon; Claim FiOS violates GPL

Open source software developers sue Verizon; Claim FiOS violates GPL Information Week By Paul McDougall

In what could become a major test case for the most widely used open source software license, a group that represents open source developers has sued Verizon Communications -- claiming that the telecom giant's FiOS broadband service violates the terms of the GNU General Public License.

In court papers filed Friday, The Software Freedom Law Center maintains Verizon's use of an open source program called BusyBox in FiOS violates version 2 the GPL because Verizon has not made the product's source code available to its customers--as the license requires.

Since November 2006, "Verizon has distributed to the public copies of the firmware in the infringing product, and none of these distributions included source code to BusyBox or offers to provide such code," SFLC alleges in its complaint, which was filed in federal court in New York.

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