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Originally Posted by dottedmag
Linksys + GPL became a public issue after the gpl-violations.org won in court and forced Linksys to released the source code and pay some money to the developers.
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Not quite correct. Linksys' violations of the GPL were documented in 2002 by Eben Moglen, and was known about community wide prior to the settlement. The case was already well underway in 2003. gpl-violations.org was not founded until January 2004.
I haven't been able to find any references to payments made to the devs, only that Cisco was forced to release proprietary code. There were payments made to the FSF in a case prior to the Cisco one.
You might find this an informative (if slanted) article:
http://www.forbes.com/technology/200...14linksys.html