Bell Microproducts, Inc. and Super Micro Computer, Inc. On December 14, 2009, SFLC announced the filing of a lawsuit on behalf of its clients, Software Freedom Conservancy and Erik Andersen, against 14 companies, including Best Buy, Samsung, and Westinghouse alleging these companies had violated GPLv2 by distributing BusyBox in some of their products without releasing BusyBox source code. For instance, Samsung released its LN52A650 TV firmware in 2010, which was used later as the base for the community SamyGO project. By 21 September 2013, all of the defendant companies had agreed on settlement terms with the plaintiffs, except for Westinghouse, against whom default judgment was entered. Cisco lawsuit On December 11, 2008, SFLC announced the filing of a lawsuit on behalf of its client, the Free Software Foundation, against Cisco Systems, Inc. This lawsuit was the first suit ever initiated by the Free Software Foundation,. On May 20, 2009, the parties announced a settlement. Staff , SFLC's staff included: Eben Moglen, President and Executive Director Mishi Choudhary, Legal Director Tanisha Madrid-Batista, Chief Operating Officer Daniel Gnoutcheff, Systems Administrator Directors , SFLC's directors were: Eben Moglen Diane M. Peters Daniel Weitzner Former staff Richard Fontana, Counsel Jim Garrison, Public Relations Coordinator Bradley M. Kuhn, Policy Analyst and Technology Director Matt Norwood, Counsel Jonathan D. Bean, Counsel Daniel J. Byrnes, Counsel Albert Cahn, Counsel Daniel B. Ravicher, Legal Director Karen M. Sandler, General Counsel James Vasile, Counsel Rachel A. Wiener, Office Manager Justin C. Colannino, Counsel Aaron Williamson, Counsel Marc Jones, Counsel Clients SFLC adds Wine to client list Press Release: SFLC to represent the Wine project (see also Wine) X.Org Foundation Hires Software Freedom Law Center SFLC to represent Plone and the Plone Foundation (see Plone) References External links New York Times article about SFLC launch eWeek article about SFLC launch Moglen plans "general counsel's office for the entire movement" Feb 2005, Newsforge ZDNet interview with Eben Moglen where SFLC is discussed Free and open-source software organizations Organizations established in 2005 Legal advocacy organizations in the United States 501(c)(3) organizations Organizations based in New York City