Fortinet accused of GPL violation
News Harald Welte, a Linux kernel developer who runs gpl-violations.org, said on Thursday that he has obtained a preliminary injunction against Fortinet, banning them from distributing their products until they comply with the conditions of the GPL.
[April 14, 2005, 17:10]
Companies accused of violating the GPL
News Harald Welte, a Linux kernel developer who runs gpl-violations.org, personally handed over warning letters to 13 technology companies at CeBIT this week, including telecoms giant Motorola and PC manufacturer Acer.
[March 16, 2005, 15:45]
BT under fire over GPL 'violation'
News After a complaint was made to gpl-violations.org, the organisation that ensures compliance with the GPL, BT uploaded several pieces of software to its website. The gpl-violations.org team has examined the code that BT uploaded, and concluded that...
[January 26, 2007, 16:04]
German court convicts Skype of GPL breach
News In response to legal action from the gpl-violations.org project, a website run by software developer Harald Welte, Skype included a flyer in the package giving a web link to the source code, but it was still not strictly in compliance with GPLv2...
[July 25, 2007, 16:04]
Skype agrees to obey GPL
News The licence requires vendors to ship source code with any open-source product, but Skype's WSKP100 phone was sold without giving users access to the source code, according to a case brought by gpl-violations.org, a group policing open-source...
[May 9, 2008, 14:36]
BT accused of GPL violation
News It appears that the catalyst 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. This claim was made on the Home Hub Blog, which also made the initial complaint to...
[January 23, 2007, 16:02]
Defender of the Linux faith
News In 2004 set up gpl-violations.org, which aims to prevent companies from contravening the rules set down in the GNU General Public License. What gives you the legal right to pursue the GPL violations? If we allowed violations to become common, the...
[March 17, 2005, 12:35]
Missing GPL detail may make it harder to enforce
News Harald Welte, the founder of GPL-violations.org, said in an interview in March that he is able to take legal action against companies that have violated the GPL as he is the author of the GPL-licensed software that companies have misappropriated.
[June 1, 2005, 15:35]
Microsoft memo: Linux fight backfiring
News Messaging that discusses possible Linux patent violations, pings the OSS (open-source software) development process for lacking accountability, attempts to call out the 'viral' aspect of the GPL (General Public License), and the like are only...
[November 7, 2002, 9:33]
Netgear router not open source, says coder
News The coder, who runs GPL-violations.org, said there were also security issues with binary-only kernel modules. This may break the terms of the GNU Public Licence (GPL), as the GPL does not allow open-source applications to link to binary-only kernel...
[October 7, 2009, 16:48]
