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<h1 id="software-freedom-conservancy-proposal-for-gpl-enforcement-grant">History and Future Strategy</h1>
<p>The Software Freedom Conservancy is a 501(c)(3) non-profit charity
registered in New York that continues it work in the are of important
licensing policy work involves defending and upholding the rights of
software users and consumers under copyleft licenses, such as the GPL.</p>
<h2 id="brief-history-of-user-focused-gpl-enforcement">Brief History of
User-Focused GPL Enforcement</h2>
<p>The spring of 2003 was a watershed moment for software freedom on
electronic devices. 802.11 wireless technology had finally reached the
mainstream, and wireless routers for home use had flooded the market
earlier in the year. By June
2003, <a href="https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/03/06/08/1749217/is-linksys-violating-the-GPL">the
general public knew that Linksys (a division of Cisco) was violating the
GPL</a> on their WRT54G model wireless routers. Hobbyists discovered
(rather easily) that Linux, BusyBox and many GNU programs were included in
the router, but Linksys and Cisco had failed to provide source code or any
offer for source code to its customers.</p>
<p>A coalition formed including organizations and individuals — including
Erik Andersen (major contributor to and former leader of the BusyBox
project) and Harald Welte (major contributor to Linux’s netfilter
subsystem) — to enforce the
GPL. <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/about/staff/#bkuhn">Bradley
M. Kuhn</a>, who is now Conservancy’s Policy Analyst and
Hacker-in-Residence, led and coordinated that coalition when he was
Executive Director of the FSF. By early 2004, this coalition, through the
process of GPL enforcement,compelled Linksys to release an
almost-GPL-compliant source release for the
WRT54G. A <a href="https://openwrt.org/about/history">group of volunteers
quickly built a new project, called OpenWRT</a> based on that source
release. In the years that have followed, OpenWRT has been ported to almost
every major wireless router product. Now, more than 15 years later, the
OpenWRT project routinely utilizes GPL source releases to build, improve
and port OpenWRT. The project has also joined coalitions to fight the FCC
to ensure that consumers have and deserve rights to install modified
firmwares on their devices and that such hobbyist improvements are no
threat to spectrum regulation.</p>
<p>Recently, OpenWRT decided to join Conservancy as one its member projects,
and Conservancy has committed to long-term assistance to this project.</p>
<p>OpenWRT has spurred companies to create better routers and other wireless
devices than they would otherwise have designed because they now need to
either compete with hobbyists, or (better still) cooperate with them to
create hardware that fully supports OpenWRT’s features and improvements
(such as dealing
with <a href="https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/traffic-shaping/sqm">the
dreaded “bufferbloat” bugs</a>). This interplay between the hobbyist
community and for-profit ventures promotes innovation in
technology. Without both permission <em>and</em> the ability to build and
modify the software on their devices, the hobbyist community
shrinks. Eventually, instead of encouraging people to experiment with their
devices, hobbyists are limited by the oft-arbitrary manufacturer-imposed
restraints in the OEM firmware. OpenWRT saved the wireless router market
from this disaster; we seek to help other embedded electronic subindustries
avoid that fate. The authors of GPL’d software chose that license so its
source is usable and readily available to hobbyists. It is our duty, as
activists for the software freedom of hobbyists, to ensure these legally
mandated rights are never curtailed.</p>
<p>(More on the OpenWRT project’s history and its connection to GPL
enforcement can be found
in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4lCMx-EI1s">Kuhn’s talk
at <em>OpenWRT Summit 2016</em></a>.)</p>
<p>Conservancy has had substantial success in leveraging more device freedom
in other subindustries through GPL compliance. In 2009, Conservancy, with
co-Plaintiff Erik Andersen, sued fourteen defendants in federal court under
copyright claims on behalf of its BusyBox member project. Conservancy was
able to achieve compliance for the BusyBox project in all fourteen
cases. Most notably, the GPL-compliant source release obtained in the
lawsuit for certain Samsung televisions provided the basis for
the <a href="https://www.samygo.tv/">SamyGo project</a> — an alternative
firmware that works on that era of Samsung televisions and allows consumers
to modify and upgrade their firmware using FOSS.</p>
<p>Harald Welte also continued his efforts during the early and mid-2000s
after the Linksys enforcement through
his <a href="https://gpl-violations.org/">gpl-violations.org
project</a>. Harald successfully sued many companies (mostly in the
wireless router industry) in Germany to achieve compliance and yield source
releases that helped OpenWRT during that period.</p>
<h2 id="importance-of-linux-enforcement-specifically">Importance of Linux Enforcement Specifically</h2>
<p>In recent years, embedded systems technology has expanded beyond wireless
routers to so-called “Internet of Things” devices designed for connectivity
with other devices in the home and to the “Cloud”. Consumer electronics
companies now feature and differentiate products based on Internet
connectivity, and related services. Conservancy has seen Linux-based
firmwares on refrigerators, baby monitors, virtual assistants, soundbars,
doorbells, home security cameras, police body cameras, cars, AV receivers,
and televisions.</p>
<p>This wide deployment of general purpose computers into mundane household
devices raises profound privacy and consumer rights
implications. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/15/us/Hacked-ring-home-security-cameras.html">Home</a> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/01/23/family-says-hacked-nest-camera-warned-them-north-korean-missile-attack/">security</a> <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/06/05/617196788/s-c-mom-says-baby-monitor-was-hacked-experts-say-many-devices-are-vulnerable">cameras</a> <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/12/tech/ring-security-camera-hacker-harassed-girl-trnd/index.html">are</a> <a href="https://abc7.com/baby-monitor-hack-leads-to-kidnap-scare/4931822/">routinely</a> <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-44117337/security-footage-viewed-by-thousands">compromised</a>
— invading the privacy and security of individual homes. Even when
companies succeed in keeping out third parties, consumers
are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/29/ring-amazon-police-partnership-social-media-neighbor">pressured
by camera makers</a> to automatically upload their videos to local
police. Televisions
routinely <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/07/vizio-settlement-moves-forward/">spy
on consumers for the purposes of marketing and massive data
collection</a>.</p>
<p>There is one overarching irony to this growing dystopia: nearly all these
devices are based primarily on software licensed under the GPL: most
notably, Linux. While Linux-based systems do allow proprietary user-space
applications not licensed under GPL, the kernel (and many other system
utilities routinely used in embedded systems, such as Conservancy’s BusyBox
project) are under that license (or similar copyleft licenses such as the
LGPL). These licenses require device markers to provide complete,
corresponding source code to everyone in possession of their
devices. Furthermore, Linux’s specific license (GPL, version 2), mandates
that source code must also include “the scripts used to control compilation
and installation of the executable”. In short, the consumers must receive
all the source code and the ability to modify, recompile and reinstall that
software. Upholding of this core freedom for Linux made OpenWRT
possible. We work to preserve (or, more often, restore) that software
freedom for consumers of other types of electronic devices.</p>
<p>When devices are compliant with the GPL’s requirements, customers can
individually or collectively take action against the surveillance and other
predatory behavior perpetuated by the manufacturers of these devices by
modifying and replacing the software. Hobbyists can aid their community by
providing these alternatives. People with no technical background already
replace firmware on their wireless routers with OpenWRT to both improve
network performance and allay privacy concerns. Furthermore, older
equipment is often saved from planned obsolescence by alternative
solutions. E-recyclers
like <a href="https://www.freegeek.org/">Freegeek</a> do this regularly for
desktop and laptop machines with GNU/Linux distributions like Debian, and
with OpenWRT for wireless routers. We seek to assure they can do this for
other types of electronic products. However, without the complete,
corresponding source code and the scripts to control its compilation and
installation, the fundamental purpose of copyleft is frustrated. Consumers,
hobbyists, non-profit e-recyclers and the general public are left without
the necessary tools they need and deserve, and which the license promises
them.</p>
<p>Additionally, copyleft compliance relates directly to significant
generational educational opportunities. There are few easier ways to
understand technology than to experiment with a device one already
has. Historically, FOSS has succeeded because young hobbyists could
examine, modify and experiment with software in their own devices. Those
hobbyists became the professional embedded device developers of today!
Theoretically, the advent of the “Internet of Things” — with its many
devices that run Linux — should give opportunities for young hobbyists to
quickly explore and improve the devices they depend on in their every day
lives. Yet, that’s rarely possible in reality. To ensure that both current
and future hobbyists can practically modify their Linux-based devices, we
must enforce Linux’s license. With public awareness that their devices can
be improved, the desire for learning will increase, and will embolden the
curiosity of newcomers of all ages and backgrounds. The practical benefits
of this virtuous cycle are immediately apparent. With technological
experimentation, people are encouraged to try new things, learn how their
devices work, and perhaps create whole new types of devices and
technologies that no one has even dreamed of before.</p>
<p>“Internet of Things” firmware should never rely on one vendor — even the
vendor of the hardware itself. This centralized approach is brittle and
inevitably leads to invasions of the public’s privacy and control of their
technology. Conservancy’s GPL enforcement work is part of the puzzle that
ensures users can choose who their devices connect to, and how they
connect. Everyone deserves control over their own computing — from their
laptop to their television to their toaster. When the public can modify (or
help others modify) the software on their devices, they choose the level of
centralized control they are comfortable with. Currently, users with
Linux-based devices usually don’t even realize what is possible with
copyleft; Conservancy aims to show them.</p>
<h2 id="the-gpl-compliance-project-for-linux-developers">The GPL Compliance
Project for Linux Developers</h2>
<p>In May 2012, Software Freedom Conservancy
formed <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/">The GPL
Compliance Project for Linux Developers</a> in response to frustration by
upstream Linux developers about the prevalence of noncompliance in the
field, and their desire to stand with Conservancy’s BusyBox, Git and Samba
projects in demanding widespread GPL compliance. This coalition of Linux
developers works with Conservancy to enforce the GPL for the rights of
Linux users everywhere — particularly consumers who own electronic
devices. We accept violation reports from the general public, and
prioritize enforcement in those classes of devices where we believe that we
can do the most good to help achieve GPL compliance that will increase
software freedom for the maximum number of device users.</p>
<h2 id="the-need-for-litigation">The Need for Litigation</h2>
<p>While we still gain some success, we have found that the landscape of GPL
compliance has changed in recent years. Historically, the true “bad actors”
were rare. We found in the early days that mere education and basic
supply-chain coordination assistance yielded compliance. We sought and
often achieved goodwill in the industry via education-focused
compliance.</p>
<p>Those tactics no longer succeed; the industry has taken advantage of that
goodwill. After the BusyBox lawsuit settled, we observed a slow move toward
intentional non-compliance throughout the embedded electronics
industry. Companies use delay and “hardball” pre-litigation tactics to
drain the limited resources available for enforcement, which we faced for
example
in <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vmware-lawsuit-links.html">the
VMware violation</a>. While VMware ultimately complied with the GPL, they
did so by reengineering the product and removing Linux from it — and only
after the product was nearing end-of-life.</p>
<p>Conservancy has recently completed an evaluation of the industry’s use of
Linux in embedded products. Our findings are disheartening and require
action. Across the entire industry, most major manufacturers almost flaunt
their failure to comply with the GPL. In our private negotiations, pursuant
to
our <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/principles.html">Principles
of Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement</a>, GPL violators stall, avoid,
delay and generally refuse to comply with the GPL. Their disdain for the
rights of their customers is often palpable. Their attitude is almost
universal: “if you think we’re really violating the GPL, then go ahead and
sue us. Otherwise, you’re our lowest priority.”</p>
<h2 id="conservancys-plan-for-action">Conservancy’s Plan For Action</h2>
<p>Conservancy has a three-pronged plan for action: litigation, persistent
non-litigation enforcement, and alternative firmware development.</p>
<h3 id="litigation">Litigation</h3>
<p>Conservancy has many violation matters that we have pursued during the
last year where we expect compliance is impossible without litigation. We
are poised to select — from among the many violations in the embedded
electronics space — a representative example and take action in USA courts
against a violator who has failed to properly provide source code
sufficient for consumers to rebuild and install Linux, and who still
refuses to remedy that error after substantial friendly negotiation with
Conservancy.</p>
<p>Our goal remains the same as in all matters: we want a source release that
works, and we’ll end any litigation when the company fully complies on its
products and makes a bona fide commitment to future compliance.</p>
<p>Conservancy, after years of analyzing its successes and failures of
previous GPL compliance litigation, has developed — in conjunction with
litigation counsel over the last year — new approaches to litigation
strategy. We believe this will bring to fruition the promise of copyleft: a
license that assures the rights and software freedoms of hobbyists who seek
full control and modifiability of devices they own. With the benefit of
this grant, Conservancy plans to accelerate these plans in 2020 and to keep
the public informed at every stage of the process.</p>
<h3 id="persistent-non-litigation-enforcement">Persistent Non-Litigation Enforcement</h3>
<p>While we will seek damages to cover our reasonable costs of this work, we
do not expect that any recovery in litigation can fully fund the broad base
of work necessary to ensure compliance and the software freedom it
brings. Conservancy is the primary charitable watchdog of
GPL compliance for Linux-based devices. We seek to use litigation as a tool
in a broader course of action to continue our work in this regard. We
expect and welcome that the high profile nature of litigation will inspire
more device owners to report violations to us. We expect we’ll learn about
classes of devices we previously had no idea contained Linux, and we’ll
begin our diligent and unrelenting work to achieve software freedom for the
owners of those devices. We will also build more partnerships across the
technology sector and consumer rights organizations to highlight the
benefit of copyleft to not just hobbyists, but the entire general
public.</p>
<h3 id="alternative-firmware-project">Alternative Firmware Project</h3>
<p>The success of the OpenWRT project, born from GPL enforcement, has an
important component. While we’ve long hoped that volunteers, as they did
with OpenWRT and SamyGo, will take up compliant sources obtained in our GPL
enforcement efforts and build alternative firmware projects, history shows
us that the creation of such projects is not guaranteed and exceedingly
rare.</p>
<p>Traditionally, our community has relied exclusively on volunteers to take
up this task, and financial investment only comes after volunteers have put
in the unfunded work to make an MVP alternative firmware. While volunteer
involvement remains essential to the success of alternative firmware
projects, we know from our fiscal sponsorship work that certain aspects of
FOSS projects require an experienced charity to initiate and jump start
some of the less exciting aspects of FOSS project creation and
development.</p>
<p>Conservancy plans to select a specific class of device. Upon achieving
compliant source releases in that subindustry through GPL enforcement,
Conservancy will <a href="firmware-liberation">launch an alternative
firmware project</> for that class of device.</p>
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<h1 id="software-freedom-conservancy-proposal-for-firmware-liberation-project">Firmware Liberation Project</h1>
<h2 id="brief-history-of-openwrt">Brief History of OpenWRT</h2>
<p>The spring of 2003 was a watershed moment for software freedom on
electronic devices. 802.11 wireless technology had finally reached the
mainstream, and wireless routers for home use had flooded the market
earlier in the year. By June
2003, <a href="https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/03/06/08/1749217/is-linksys-violating-the-GPL">the
general public knew that Linksys (a division of Cisco) was violating the
GPL</a> on their WRT54G model wireless routers. Hobbyists discovered that
Linux, BusyBox and many GNU programs were included in the router, but
Linksys and Cisco had failed to provide source code or any offer for source
code to its customers. Linksys had violated the GPL, the license of these
projects.</p>
<p>A coalition successfully enforced the GPL in this case, and Linksys
released source code A <a href="https://openwrt.org/about/history">group of
volunteers quickly built a new project, called OpenWRT</a> based on that
source release. In the years that have followed, OpenWRT has been ported to
almost every major wireless router product. Now, more than 15 years later,
the OpenWRT project routinely utilizes GPL source releases to build,
improve and port OpenWRT. OpenWRT has spurred companies to create better
routers.</p>
<h2 id="gpl-enforcement-needs-follow-through">GPL Enforcement Needs Follow-Through</h2>
<p>Simply enforcing the GPL is an important first step, and Conservancy
<a href="enforcement-strategy.html">continues our efforts in that regard</a>. However,
the success found with OpenWRT can be replicated <em>only if</em> there is
substantial effort <strong>after</strong> enforcement occurs to turn the
compliant source release into a viable alternative firmware for the
platform.</p>
<p>Conservancy has seen non-compliant Linux-based firmwares on refrigerators,
baby monitors, virtual assistants, soundbars, doorbells, home security
cameras, police body cameras, cars, AV receivers, and televisions.</p>
<p>This wide deployment of general purpose computers into mundane household
devices raises profound privacy and consumer rights
implications. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/15/us/Hacked-ring-home-security-cameras.html">Home</a> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/01/23/family-says-hacked-nest-camera-warned-them-north-korean-missile-attack/">security</a> <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/06/05/617196788/s-c-mom-says-baby-monitor-was-hacked-experts-say-many-devices-are-vulnerable">cameras</a> <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/12/tech/ring-security-camera-hacker-harassed-girl-trnd/index.html">are</a> <a href="https://abc7.com/baby-monitor-hack-leads-to-kidnap-scare/4931822/">routinely</a> <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-44117337/security-footage-viewed-by-thousands">compromised</a>
— invading the privacy and security of individual homes. Even when
companies succeed in keeping out third parties, consumers
are <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/29/ring-amazon-police-partnership-social-media-neighbor">pressured
by camera makers</a> to automatically upload their videos to local
police. Televisions
routinely <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/07/vizio-settlement-moves-forward/">spy
on consumers for the purposes of marketing and massive data
collection</a>.</p>
<p>“Internet of Things” firmware should never rely on one vendor — even the
vendor of the hardware itself. This centralized approach is brittle and
inevitably leads to invasions of the public’s privacy and control of their
technology. Conservancy plans to address this issue in the manner that the
FOSS community knows best: put one foot in front of the other, and work to
create FOSS for every possible task that users want to accomplish. For IoT
devices, this means creating alternative firmware in the same manner that
OpenWRT has done for wireless routers.</p>
<h2 id="limited-success-of-alternative-hardware">Limited Success of
Alternative Hardware</h2>
<p>Alternative hardware projects remain an essential component of small
device freedom. Conservancy supports and engages with communities that seek
to source and build IoT-style devices from the ground up. We’re excited to
see deployable boards that allow Maker efforts to create new devices.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, we remain ever-cognizant that FOSS succeeded on servers,
laptop, desktop, and wireless router computers <em>precisely</em> because
users could buy commodity hardware at any store and install FOSS. There is
no complete, operational base operating system for most IoT devices on the
market.</p>
<h3 id="demonstrating-the-power-of-software-freedom">Demonstrating the power
of software freedom,</h3>
<p>To many, the benefits of software freedom are abstract. For less technical
users, the idea of modifying or even reviewing the software on their
devices is wholly theoretical. For technical users, there is a limited time
available to invest in the devices they use for their everyday
lives. Bringing people together to take collective action for the control
of their own technology is a powerful proposition that has rarely been
demonstrated.</p>
<p>When alternative firmware projects like OpenWRT exist for IoT devices,
non-technical users can replace the software on their devices and benefit
from custom, community-controled software. Technical users are more likely
to contribute knowing their efforts will be meaningful.</p>
<p>However, decades of corporate involvement in copyleft have demonstrated
that without an organized effort, control over one’s own software is purely
theoretical, even when software has a copyleft license, and
sometimes <em>even when</em> compliance with the copyleft license is
acheived. Conservancy recognizes that there is a unique opportunity for
charitable organizations to step in and change the power dynamic of the
tech industry for consumers.</p>
<h2 id="conservancys-plan-for-action">Conservancy’s Plan For Action</h2>
<p>Conservancy seeks to fund work on liberating firmware for a specific
device. This is accomplished with a two-prong approach: first, we will
leverage increased interest and tendency toward GPL compliance throughout
the embedded industry to more quickly achieve compliant source releases in
a particular subindustry.</p>
<p>Second, depending on what subindustry (i.e., specific class of devices)
seems most responsive to increased enforcement activity and willing to
provide compliant source releases quickly, we will launch, coordinate and
fund an alternative firmware project for that class.</p>
<h2 id="leveraging-on-increased-enforcement">Leveraging on Increased
Enforcement</h2>
<p><a href="enforcement-strategy.html">Conservancy plans to select a specific
violation and engage in litigation. Based on past experience, we expect
that the press and attention to that ongoing litigation will yield
increased responsiveness by violators throughout the industry. (A similar
outcome occurred after our litigation in 2006.) This expected change in
behavior will open opportunities to replicate the OpenWRT approach in
another embedded electronic subindustry. Fast action will be necessary;
most IoT products have an 18 month lifecycle, so we seek to quickly
identify the right subindustry, gain compliance there, and move on to the
next phase.</p>
<h3 id="funding-firmware-liberation">Funding Firmware Liberation</h3>
<p>While we’ve long hoped that volunteers would take up compliant sources
obtained in our GPL enforcement efforts and build alternative firmware
projects as they did with OpenWRT, history shows us that the creation of
such projects is not guaranteed and exceedingly rare.</p>
<p>Traditionally, our community has relied exclusively on volunteers to take
up this task, and financial investment only comes after volunteers have put
in the unfunded work to make a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) liberated
firmware. While volunteer involvement remains essential to the success of
alternative firmware projects, we know from our fiscal sponsorship work
that certain aspects of FOSS projects require an experienced charity to
initiate and jump-start some of the less exciting aspects of FOSS project
creation and development. (In our last fiscal year, Conservancy funded 160
contributors to work on FOSS)</p>
<p>In the initial phase of this grant, Conservancy will to select a specific
class of device. Upon achieving compliant source releases in that
subindustry through GPL enforcement, Conservancy will launch an alternative
firmware project for that class of device.</p>
<p>Conservancy will seek to fund the time of project leaders and
infrastructure for the project. The goal is to build a firm base that draws
volunteers to the project. We know that sustaining funding over long
periods for a grassroots hobbyist activity is quite challenging; we seek to
use this grant to bootstrap and catalyze interest and contribution to the
project. Ideally, Conservancy would run the project with a single full-time
staffer for a about a year, and achieve a volunteer base sufficient to
reduce funding to one part-time staffer.</p>
<h3 id="criteria-for-device-selection">Criteria for Device Selection</h3>
<p>The IoT device industry moves quickly and we must be prepared to adapt
based on new information. The first stage in this work will be to carefully
evaluate and select the device on which to focus for this
project. Conservancy will evaluate the following criteria in selecting a
class of devices:</p>
<ul>
<li><p>Do most devices in the subindustry already run a known FOSS system
(such as Android/Linux, BusyBox/Linux or GNU/Linux)?</p></li>
<li><p>In response to our increased enforcement activity, how many existing
GPL-compliant source releases are available from how many different
vendors in this subindustry?</p></li>
<li><p>Is there a known userspace application that runs on Maker-built
hardware that does the task the proprietary userspace software from the
vendor did?</p></li>
<li><p>What is the excitement level among volunteers for this
project?</p></li>
<li><p>What value will hobbyists achieve from replacing the software on their
device? For example, would they be able to avoid surveillance or add
accessibility features?</p></li>
</ul>
<p>Finally, Conservancy will be prepared and willing to recognize temporary
failure and setbacks in a particular subindustry and pivot quickly to
choosing a different class of devices. This project is ambitious, and we’ll
be adept in our approach to ensure success.</p>

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<li class="AboutCompliance"><a href="/copyleft-compliance/about.html">About</a></li>
<li class="CopyleftPrinciples"><a href="/copyleft-compliance/principles.html">Principles of Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement</a></li>
<li class="EnforcementStrategy"><a href="/copyleft-compliance/enforcement-strategy.html">Current Copyleft Enforcement Strategy</a></li>
<li class="LiberateFirmware"><a href="/copyleft-compliance/firmware-liberation.html">Liberate IoT Firmware via GPL Enforcement</a></li>
<li class="VMwareLawsuitLinks"><a href="/copyleft-compliance/vmware-lawsuit-links.html">VMware Lawsuit: Summary and Resources</a></li>
<li class="CopyleftOrg"><a href="https://copyleft.org/">copyleft.org</a></li>
</ul>