amicus_curious wrote:
The SFLC then filed a dismissal and nothing happened to Verizon.
Incorrect. Verizon chose to comply with the GPL, through the agency
of its router manufacturer.
The manual for Verizon's FiOS router, branded with Verizon and its
logo on the cover, can be found here:
<http://support.actiontec.com/doc_files/MI424WR_Rev._E_User_Manual_20.8.0_v3.pdf>
On page 204, it now says
C.4 GPL (General Public License)
This product includes software code developed by third parties,
including software code subject to the enclosed GNU General Public
License (GPL) or GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). The GPL
Code and LGPL Code used in this product are distributed WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY and are subject to the copyrights of the authors, and to
the terms of the applicable licenses included in the download. For
details, see the GPL Code and LGPL Code for this product and the
terms of the GPL and the LGPL, which are available on the enclosed
product disk and can be accessed by inserting the disk into your
CD-ROM drive and opening the “GPL.exe” file.
The router manufacturer, Actiontec, now displays a link on its support
page
labeled "GPL Code Download Center" leading to
<http://opensource.actiontec.com/>
where the GPLed sources can be downloaded under the image of a smiling gnu
and
penguin and a reversed copyright symbol.
When the result of a GPL enforcement action is GPL compliance, we call
that
"victory".