Motorola, Acer get GPL ‘misuse’ warnings
p2pnet.net News:- Motorola and Acer are among 13 software and appliance product vendors at CeBIT who are about to get, or may have already received, warning letters alleging their misuse of GPL licensed software.
“Those warning letters will be personally handed over to the respective companies at their CeBIT booth by Mr. Harald Welte, free software developer and founder of the gpl-violations.org project,” says gpl-violations.org.
“While the Free and Open Source community is very happy to see more and more vendors adopt Linux and other GPL-licensed software, it is of great importance that those vendors comply with the respecitve license conditions, just like with any other software” says Welte.
“The warning notice gives them a chance to fix their products, before someone might get them into legal troubles.”
gpl-violations.org says it, “tries to bring vendors who use GPL licensed software in their products into license compliance. To achieve this goal, it uses a number of measures, ranging from warning letters over public documentation of GPL violations, up to legal proceedings. In this year, the project managed to conclude more than 25 amicable agreements, two preliminary injunctions and one court order.”
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gpl-violations.org – 13 Companies at CeBIT receive warning letter regarding their alleged GPL incompliance, March 14, 2005
