SFLC Sues 14 Companies For BusyBox GPL Violations

eldavojohn writes "The Software Freedom Law Center has filed a lawsuit accusing fourteen companies, including Best Buy, Samsung and Westinghouse, of violating the GPL in nearly 20 separate products. This is similar to earlier BusyBox GPL suits. The commercial uses of BusyBox must be much more prolific than anyone could have imagined. Having dealt with hundreds of compliance problems and finding an average of one violation per day, the SFLC recommends one thing: be responsive to their requests (they try to settle things in private first) lest you find one of these (PDF) in your inbox."

Re:But...

[Anonymous Coward]

Noone really likes it, it's just a sad fact of life that if you give people too much freedom they will abuse it.

Freedom un-abused isn't really freedom at all.

Re:To back up parent.....

[s73v3r]

True, but at $1M, he really only needs to sell one copy :-p

Re:Works for me.

[VGPowerlord]

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