Free Software Foundation Vs. Cisco

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News of Tuesday 16/12/2008

The Free Software Foundation has decided to drag to court no less than Cisco Systems, the giant global networking equipment and network management; men of Richard Stallman contest to the violation of GPL in the distribution of its applications.

Among the FSF and Cisco reports were not always thesis, indeed, begun in 2003 was active cooperation between the two realities of information on the adaptation of software Lynksys GPL License. But if the FSF interested in the philosophy which is distributed a program, the Cisco affects a little more money.

Thus, despite the Cisco software was distributed in many cases licensed Open Source, the company would not have made available to users the source code of applications themselves for possible changes. Now the word passes to the solicitors and judges.