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Free Software Foundation, Inc. v. Cisco Systems, Inc.

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FSF v. Cisco is a lawsuit initiated by the Free Software Foundation against Cisco Systems on December 11, 2008 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.[1] The FSF claims that various products sold under the Linksys brand by Cisco have violated the licensing terms of many programs on which FSF holds copyright, including GCC, binutils, and the GNU C Library. Most of these programs are licensed under the GPL, and a few are under the LGPL.[2] The Software Freedom Law Center is acting as the FSF's law firm in the case.[3] The foundation has asked the court to enjoin Cisco from further distributing Linksys firmware that contains FSF copyrighted code, and also asked for all profits that Cisco received "from its unlawful acts."[4] Cisco has stated that they are reviewing the issues in the suit, but they believe to be "substantially in compliance".[5]

The FSF is contending that code it holds the copyright to is found in the Linksys models EFG120, EFG250, NAS200, SPA400, WAG300N, WAP4400N, WIP300, WMA11B, WRT54GL, WRV200, WRV54G, and WVC54GC, and in the program QuickVPN,[6] which is used to connect VPN clients via the RV and WRV series Linksys routers.[7] [8]

References

  1. ^ "Free Software Foundation Files Suit Against Cisco For GPL Violations" (Press release). Free Software Foundation. 2008-12-11. Retrieved 2008-12-12.
  2. ^ Full Complaint
  3. ^ "SFLC Files Lawsuit against Cisco on Behalf of the FSF" (Press release). Software Freedom Law Center. 2008-12-11. Retrieved 2008-12-12.
  4. ^ McDougall, Paul (2008-12-11). "Free Software Group Sues Cisco For Open Source Violations". InformationWeek. Retrieved 2008-12-14.
  5. ^ Schofield, Jack (2008-12-11). "FSF sues Cisco over Linksys open source code". The Guardian Technology Blog. Retrieved 2008-12-14.
  6. ^ Thomson, Iain (2008-12-11). "Cisco sued by FSF over GPL violation". PC Magazine. Retrieved 2008-12-30.
  7. ^ "QuickVPN Almost Lives Up to Its Name". eWEEK. 2005-07-11. Retrieved 2008-12-30.
  8. ^ Linksys page on QuickVPN

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