Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record

[Alexander Terekhov]

Hyman Rosen wrote:
> 
> Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> >  And before you mention Actiontec: sources were
> > available from Actiontec prior to SFLC sued Verizon.
> 
> The complaint against Verizon is dated December 6, 2007:
> <http://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/2007/dec/07/busybox/verizon.pdf>
> 
> This article says that the Actiontec FIOS router was available
> in January of 2007:
> <http://www.fibercrap.com/article/actiontec-mi424wr-router-fios-weapon-of-choice-1150-1.html>
> 
> Looking for http://opensource.actiontec.com/ on the WaybackMachine
> shows that as late as Aug 2007 the software available on the site
> contained sources for a Dual PC Modem, but not for a FIOS router:
> 
> August 2007:
> <http://web.archive.org/web/20070822230857/http://opensource.actiontec.com/index.html>
> Current:
> <http://opensource.actiontec.com/index.html>
> 
> So it doesn't look to me as if the FIOS router firmware was
> available before the lawsuit was filed. Do you have a URL or
> other evidence that shows something different?

Try this. 

http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/07/1953217 
                                       ^^^^^^^^ 

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Looking on Actiontec's "Support: Open Source" website 
(http://opensource.actiontec.com/index.html [actiontec.com]), I see the 
following: 

GPL Code Download is available for the following Actiontec products: 
Wireless Broadband Router Model MI424WR 

The following is the portion of the Actiontec source code for the 
MI424WR Products. 

List of modules: 

busybox-0.50 
Release Date Filename 
11/27/2007 actiontec_opensrc_mi424wr.tar.gz 

Hmmm... looks like Actiontec is at least attempting to honor the 
license. I haven't researched what's in the tarball, but at least it's 
there. 

So, again, why is SFLC suing Verizon? 
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Then if you still have doubts go and ask Actiontec when did first appear
on web site. (The latest wayback-archived version of the site is of
08/22/2007.)

regards, 
alexander. 

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