[penguicon-general] Penguicon Co-Founder in the News

[Wolfger]

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On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:02 AM, David R. Campbell
<thefile at ghandeel.org> wrote:
> http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206904096&subSection=News
>
>  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.
>
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