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Article: GNU Sues Cisco.
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- Linux Gram
- Article date:
- December 22, 2009
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The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has sued Cisco for copyright infringement.
It says Cisco's Linksys division uses GNU code and won't honor the GPL 2 and LGPL 2 and 2.1 licenses that the GNU software's distributed under and give customers the source code to the Cisco-modified embedded firmware that would of course let users in turn modify the software.
FSF wants the profits that Cisco's made off of Linksys' allegedly offending widgetry, damages on top of that doubtlessly tidy sum, and an injunction.
This is the first time FSF has ever filed suit. For the last 15 years its enforcers have been able to persuade erring companies to comply with ...