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Verizon Settles Open Source Software Lawsuit
The issue centered on claims that a subcontractor used an open source program called
BusyBox in Verizon's wireless routers.

By Paul McDougall
InformationWeek
March 17, 2008 12:50 PM


Two software developers have reached a settlement in a lawsuit against Verizon
Communications in which they claimed the telecom giant's broadband service violated
the terms of the widely used open source agreement under which their product was
licensed.
As part of the settlement announced Monday, Verizon (NYSE: VZ) subcontractor
Actiontec Electronics must pay an undisclosed sum to developers Erick Andersen and
Rob Landley. It must also appoint an internal officer to ensure that it's in
compliance with licenses governing the open source software it uses.

Actiontec supplied Verizon with wireless routers for its FiOS broadband service that
use an open source program called BusyBox. BusyBox developers Andersen and Landley in
December sued Verizon -- claiming that the usage violated terms of version 2 of the
GNU General Public License.