Mattel Suit Takes a GNU Twist: The authors of the cphack program, which disables CyberPatrol and decrypts the ban list, turned over all rights to the program they possessed under copyright law to Mattel. Mattel was planning on using those rights to force everybody to delete their copies or at least stop distributing it. Except... cphack was released under the GNU General Public License.
Mattel Suit Takes a GNU Twist: The authors of the cphack program, which disables CyberPatrol and decrypts the ban list, turned over all rights to the program they possessed under copyright law to Mattel. Mattel was planning on using those rights to force everybody to delete their copies or at least stop distributing it. Except... cphack was released under the GNU General Public License.