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On previous occasions it's been mentioned that it takes very specific behaviors for the Free Software Foundation to file suit against a company for violating the GNU GPL license.

Today, the FSF let Cisco Systems know in no uncertain terms that line had been crossed. The complaint centers on the Linksys brand routers, and the firmware used on those products.

By Alistair Croll

When a PC gets a virus, it has to be cleaned. Content produced since the infection is often lost. Developers face a different kind of infection risk: IP violations. Whether it's open source code, a copyrighted library, or someone else's subroutines, code can carry baggage. Now startup Protecode wants to watch developers in real time, right in the IDE, to flag violations before they ruin an entire release.