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Reports: SFLC, Monsoon Multimedia May Be Heading Toward A Deal

September 25, 2007

Nancy Gohring of the IDG News Service reports that Monsoon Multimedia and the Software Freedom Law Center are discussing a settlement regarding Monsoon's open-source licensing violation, but a deal isn't certain as of yet.

"Simply coming into compliance now is not sufficient to settle the matter because that would mean anyone can violate the license until caught because the only punishment would be to come into compliance," said Dan Ravicher, SFLC's legal director, in a statement. He confirmed that the parties are in settlement discussions but said an agreement hasn't yet been reached.

For its part, Monsoon said it never intended not to comply with licensing requirements, and in fact would do so within two weeks.

The situation wratcheted up considerably last week when the SFLC filed a lawsuit against Monsoon on behalf of embedded systems Unix utility builder BusyBox. Monsoon uses BusyBox uner the GNU General Public License version 2, which requires distributors of software that uses the licensed software to make their source code available. Failing to do so is considered copyright infringement.

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