License Violations 2008-2009 Incident #63

FSF v. Cisco/Linksys

Estimated Financial Impact
Undisclosed settlement
Blast Radius
GPL/LGPL in Linksys routers

What Happened

The FSF sued Cisco for distributing GPL/LGPL-licensed programs (GCC, GNU Binutils, glibc) in Linksys routers without source code disclosure. Settled with Cisco appointing a dedicated internal Free Software Compliance Officer.

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Risk Guard: Caught

LICENSE_RESTRICTION_DERIVATIVE_WORK_COPYLEFT.

Risk Guard Check Codes That Flag This Incident

LICENSE_RESTRICTION_DERIVATIVE_WORK_COPYLEFT

How Every Tool Performed

5 Caught 1 Partial 0 Missed
Tool Verdict Details
OSS Risk Guard Caught LICENSE_RESTRICTION_DERIVATIVE_WORK_COPYLEFT.
Socket Partial Has license scanning but not primary focus
Snyk Caught License compliance scanning
Sonatype (Nexus) Caught License compliance in Lifecycle product
Black Duck Caught Industry-leading license compliance; largest knowledge base
Endor Labs Caught License compliance scanning
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