In what their lawyers are characterizing as the first test of the legal mettle of the General Public License in the US, the developers of a multipurpose UNIX-style utilities package have sued Monsoon Multimedia - which makes a competitive product to SlingBox called Hava. Their claim is that Monsoon redistributes their BusyBox utilities as part of Hava's software, without also distributing the source code along with it as the GPL mandates.
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