Would you format your paragraphs properly in future, please?
In gnu.misc.discuss amicus_curious <ACDC@sti.net> wrote:
So they [SFLC] didn't suddenly "become aware" of anything at
all. They just became suddenly aware that they were out to
lunch on the law and were about to have their case tossed out
of court, so they surrendered, begging Verizon to not make
an issue of things and probably paying for Verizon's costs.
It was a total loss.
That's not the way the SFLC sees it. On
http://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/2008/mar/17/busybox-verizon/
we have:
As a result of the plaintiffs agreeing to dismiss the lawsuit
and reinstate Actiontec's and its customer's rights to
distribute BusyBox under the GPL, Actiontec has agreed to
appoint an Open Source Compliance Officer within its
organization to monitor and ensure GPL compliance, to publish
the source code for the version of BusyBox it previously
distributed on its Web site, and to undertake substantial
efforts to notify previous recipients of BusyBox from Actiontec
and its customers, including Verizon, of their rights to the
software under the GPL. The settlement also includes an
undisclosed amount of financial consideration paid to the
plaintiffs by Actiontec.