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


From: Hyman Rosen
Subject: Re: SFLC's GPL court enforcement -- track record
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:49:13 -0400
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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?


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