[Discussioni] Netfilter/ Iptables project reaches out-of-court settlement

[Francesco Potorti`]

http://www.allnet.de/netfilter.html

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Netfilter/ IPTABLES Project Reaches OUT-OF-COURT SETTLEMENT ON THE
INFRIGEMENT OF THEIR COPYRIGHT BY ALLNET GMBH

BERLIN, Germany Feb, 02, 2004 -- The netfilter/iptables project
(http://netfilter.org/) announces out-of-court settlement with Allnet GmbH
(http://www.allnet.de/) on Allnet's infringing use of copyrighted material.

Allnet was offering two products, a wireless access router and a
load-balancing DSL router, both including software developed by the
netfilter/iptables project.

However, Allnet did not fulfill the obligations of the GNU General
Public License covering the netfilter/iptables software. Specifically,
Allnet did not make any source code offering or include the GPL license
terms with their products.

Allnet has now agreed to adhere to all clauses of the license and inform
its customers about their respective rights and obligations of the
GPL. It will further refrain from offering any new netfilter/iptables
based products without adhering to the GPL.

"We are very happy with the cooperative manner of Allnet in which this
issue was resolved and an amicable agreement reached", notes Harald
Welte, the Chairman of the Netfilter Core Team.

As part of the aggreement, Allnet will make a significant donation to
two tax-exempt non-for-profit organizations established under german
law: The Free Software Foundation Europe (http://www.fsfeurope.org/),
and the Foundation of a Free Information Infrastructure
(http://www.ffii.org/).