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BT accused of GPL violation

...for this move was a complaint made on 5 January, 2007 to gpl-violations.org, a project that tries to prevent companies abusing the GPL... Read more

23 January, 2007 by Graeme Wearden

Fortinet settles GPL violation suit

...it violated the GPL, the company said on Tuesday. Earlier this month, gpl-violations.org founder Harald Welte obtained a court injunction against Fortinet, banning... Read more

26 April, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

Netgear router not open source, says coder

...in the end form one program, said Welte. The coder, who runs GPL-violations.org, said there were also security issues with binary-only kernel... Read more

7 October, 2009 by Tom Espiner

Skype agrees to obey GPL

...users access to the source code, according to a case brought by gpl-violations.org, a group policing open-source licence violations. Skype's appeal... Read more

9 May, 2008 by Peter Judge

German court convicts Skype of GPL breach

...open-source licence would require. In response to legal action from the gpl-violations.org project, a website run by software developer Harald Welte, Skype... Read more

25 July, 2007 by Peter Judge

BT under fire over GPL 'violation'

...make this source code freely available. After a complaint was made to gpl-violations.org, the organisation that ensures compliance with the GPL, BT uploaded... Read more

26 January, 2007 by Graeme Wearden

Missing GPL detail may make it harder to enforce

...to do the right thing," Stallman added. Harald Welte, the founder of GPL-violations.org, said in an interview in March that he is able... Read more

1 June, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

BitKeeper: No holds barred open source infighting

...who maintains the packet filter subsystem in the Linux kernel and runs gpl-violations.org, says he has always refused to use Bitkeeper to develop... Read more

20 April, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

Fortinet accused of GPL violation

...licensed under the GPL. Harald Welte, a Linux kernel developer who runs gpl-violations.org, said on Thursday that he has obtained a preliminary injunction... Read more

14 April, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

Defender of the Linux faith

...the packet filter subsystem in the Linux kernel. In 2004 set up gpl-violations.org, which aims to prevent companies from contravening the rules set... Read more

17 March, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

Companies accused of violating the GPL

...General Public License (GPL). Harald Welte, a Linux kernel developer who runs gpl-violations.org, personally handed over warning letters to 13 technology companies at... Read more

16 March, 2005 by Ingrid Marson

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