[LINK] Monsoon settles with SFLC

[Rick Welykochy]

Glen Turner wrote:

> That discussion shows that copyright owners' attitudes to non-compliance
> with the obligations of the GPL license is hardening. The new attitude
> very much seems anger that firms are willing to jump through 
> ridiculously tough terms for commercial software (eg, audits) but can't
> be bothered to meet the comparatively minor terms of the GPL (ie,
> publishing source code).

Perhaps a judicious application of the DMCA (2000) would assist with a more
compliant attitude.


> Dear members of the free software community:
[Yada yada yada]
> Regarding claims of "stonewalling", etc. all I can say is that we're
> going through the list of everything we have (it's not just Busybox),
> figuring out where it came from, what was modified, etc. etc. and we
> wish to do this correctly to avoid further controversy. I am
> personally very sorry it is dragging on because I'd like to get back
> to helping customers and being a general pain in the neck to the
> developers.

Disingenuous crap if you ask me. Without the threat of legal action,
no action would have been taken. Lurk on the "GPL licence violations"
mailing list for many more examples of inaction and stonewalling ...
until the threat of legal action arises.


> http://myhava.com/press_releases_monsoon_open_source.html

"Since we intend to and always intended to comply with all open source
  software license requirements, we are confident that the matter will
  be quickly resolved,” said Graham Radstone, Chairman and Chief Operating
  Officer at Monsoon Multimedia.

Hrm ... that statement seems to belie what was reported earlier, i.e.
it took the threat of legal action to get HAVA to this stage, after
months of ignoring pleas from the open source community to comply with
the GPL.

This result shows the power of a copyright licence or the fear that it
can engender.


cheers
rickw



-- 
_________________________________
Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services

Traditionally, most of Australia's imports come from overseas.
      -- Keppel Enderbery