FSF sues Cisco
Today the Free Software Foundation (FSF) has announced that it has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Cisco. It seems that Cisco violated the licenses of GCC, binutils, and the GNU C Library through its Linksys brand. All of them are released under GPL and LGPL, so basically everyone had the right to modify and share Cisco’s stuff but the company denied this right to the users.
“Our licenses are designed to ensure that everyone who uses the software can change it,” said Richard Stallman, president and founder of the FSF. “In order to exercise that right, people need the source code, and that’s why our licenses require distributors to provide it. We are enforcing our licenses to protect the rights that everyone should have with all software: to use it, share it, and modify it as they see fit.”
These are parts from a press release I got today, with a few modifications. I’m wondering what will be Cisco’s next move. Will they open up their stuff according to the General Public License and LGPL or will they try to prove they’re “innocent”?
Yay! been waiting for this since WRT54GL support was discontinued!