SFC reports a successful (L)GPL suit in Germany

Date:
Thu, 09 Jan 2025 15:31:02 +0000

Description:
The Software Freedom Conservancy is reporting that AVM has released the full source and installation scripts for its
routers in response to a lawsuit, filed by Sebastian Steck, based on Lesser
GNU Public License rights. Historically, lawsuits have focused on the copyrights licensed
under GPL (or the GPL and LGPL together). Steck's lawsuit uniquely
focused exclusively on users' rights under the LGPL. Steck's work
showed that despite being a "Lesser" license than GPL, LGPLv2.1
still guarantees users the right to repair, modify and reinstall
modified versions of the software on their device. There is now no
doubt that both GPL and LGPL mandate the device owner's ability to
make changes to the software in the flash memory so those changes
persist across reboots.

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Link to news story:
https://lwn.net/Articles/1004595/


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