Since I'm not the only copyright holder of busybox, I can't STOP the SFLC suing people over it. I added affirmative defenses to the BusyBox license page:
http://busybox.net/license.html
But that didn't stop them from creating a self-funding legal machine where they NEVER found any actual useful code that should have gone upstream, but they still demanded $15k or so in legal fees each time so they could go sue the NEXT company.
My current employer is doing videoconferencing systems based on Android, and has specifically forbid its engineers from shipping any GPL code in userspace, because it's just too legally dangerous. After the SFLC went _back_ after Cisco five years after the first settlement, no amount of "compliance" effort is considered sufficient. The GPL has been _poisoned_ by the actions of the FSF and the SFLC.
http://landley.net/notes-2011.html#16-12-2011
I'm sad this happened, but I'm not going to put on a "Han Shot First!" T-shirt and defend the glorious past. I'm going to distance myself from the crazy and rebuild.
Re: please do your homework first
http://busybox.net/license.html
But that didn't stop them from creating a self-funding legal machine where they NEVER found any actual useful code that should have gone upstream, but they still demanded $15k or so in legal fees each time so they could go sue the NEXT company.
My current employer is doing videoconferencing systems based on Android, and has specifically forbid its engineers from shipping any GPL code in userspace, because it's just too legally dangerous. After the SFLC went _back_ after Cisco five years after the first settlement, no amount of "compliance" effort is considered sufficient. The GPL has been _poisoned_ by the actions of the FSF and the SFLC.
http://landley.net/notes-2011.html#16-12-2011
I'm sad this happened, but I'm not going to put on a "Han Shot First!" T-shirt and defend the glorious past. I'm going to distance myself from the crazy and rebuild.