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Settlement Reached in Verizon GPL Violation Suit 208

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday March 17, 2008 @05:30PM from the lifetime-of-clicking-i-agree-on-licenses-brought-to-a-halt dept.

eldavojohn writes "A settlement has been reached in the Verizon GPLv2 violation suit. The now famous BusyBox developers, Erick Andersen and Rob Landley, will receive an undisclosed sum from subcontractor Actiontec Electronics. '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.'"

Comment Re:The small should pay for the big? (Score 1) 287

by Gomker on Friday October 07, 2005 @11:04AM (#13739604) Attached to: Blackout Shows Net's Fragility

The thing you are missing is the traffic level.
The peering agreements are, in theory, setup for mutual traffic levels.

Since one is sending 3 times the amount of data (assuming this is true from article) they think its not fair and should be compensated for the increased amount of traffic.

Sounds like they could have a case, if the traffic levels are really that skewed.

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