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According to Information Week, Diebold is using GPL software in its voting machines in violation of the license terms.

According to news reports, the SFLC has filed a couple more GPL-violation suits relating to open source firmware used in many embedded Linux devices.

According to news reports, the Software Freedom Law Center has filed suit against a consumer electronics company for use of GPL code in an embedded system without compliance with the GPL. The complaint can be found here.

According to the GPL Violations Project, as quoted in an article in Inforworld, Cisco’s iPhone violates the GNU GPL requirements relating to making source code available.

Harald Welte (gpl-violations.org) has apparently won another court action in Germany, this time against D-Link for use of Linux in a network attached storage device. An english translation is available here.

A must read article for anyone concerned with the legal limits of the GPL.

Apparently, after discovering that portions of the firmware for Linksys routers was licensed under the GPL, requiring source code publication, Cisco replaced the firmware with new code that uses a different operating system that is more difficult to modify.