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<h1>Give Up GitHub!</h1>
<p>Since June 2022,
we <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/jun/30/give-up-github-launch/">have been
encouraging and help FOSS developers</a> to <strong>give up on
GitHub</strong>! </p>
<p>On Wednesday 29 June 2022, we <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2022/jun/30/give-up-github-launch/">began
calling on all FOSS developers</a> to <strong>give up on
GitHub</strong>. </p>
<div class="picture-small right">
<img src="{% static 'img/GiveUpGitHub.svg' %}" alt="GitHub so-called “Octocat” logo/mascot in one tentacle holds 💰. Six other tentacles form a cage for the words “USER RIGHTS” — which are set in blue stone but are crumbling under the force of the tentacles. The final tentacle reaches out with an open palm — presuambly to collect even more rights & money from its users."/>
<img src="{% static 'img/GiveUpGitHub.svg' %}" alt="A parody of the GitHub logo, walling off user rights and demanding payment"/>
</div>
<p>We realize this is not an easy task; GitHub is ubiquitous. Through their
effective marketing, GitHub has convinced Free and Open Source Software
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that
Microsoft <a href="https://www.geekwire.com/2025/github-will-join-microsofts-coreai-group-with-departure-of-ceo-thomas-dohmke/">fully
incorporated GitHub to be a mere division of its &ldquo;CoreAI&rdquo;
division</a>. GitHub users and their work are (sadly) willingly-offered input
division. GitHub users and their work are merely willingly offered input
to that division's work!</li>
<li id="ICE-contract-details"><p>In 2020, the community discovered that
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<ul>
<li><a href="https://forgejo.org">Forgejo</a></li>
<li><a href="https://gitea.io">Gitea</a></li>
<li> <a href="https://gitlab.com/rluna-gitlab/gitlab-ce">GitLab
Community Edition</a> (note, the GitLab Enterprise Edition, which is
provided to the public on gitlab.com, is (like GitHub) trade-secret,

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boards of the Freedombox Foundation, Linux Professional Institute, and
Aleph Objects.</p>
<h2 id="bkuhn">Bradley Kuhn</h2>
<h2 id="bkuhn">Bradley Kuhn &ndash; Treasurer</h2>
<p>In addition to being a Director-at-large of SFC,
<p>In addition to being a Director-at-large of SFC and its Treasurer,
Bradley Kuhn is also on staff as
<acronym title="Software Freedom Conservancy">SFC</acronym>&apos;s
<a href="/about/staff/#bkuhn">Policy Fellow and

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@ -11,13 +11,11 @@ New York State. Below, Conservancy makes available these filings for
public inspection, in reverse chronological order:</p>
<ul>
<li>Filing Year 2024: Fiscal Year from 2024-03-01 through 2025-02-28
<p><a href="https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/return-due-dates-for-exempt-organizations-annual-return">The
2024 filing deadline for FY 2024-25 is 2025-07-15</a>. The IRS typically
grants an extension to 2026-01-15, and we have requested that extension.</p>
</li>
<li>Filing Year 2023: Fiscal Year from 2023-03-01 through 2024-02-29
<p>FY2023-24 was filed on 2025-01-15.</p>
<li>Filing Year 2023: Fiscal Year from 2023-03-01 through 2024-02-28<br/>
<p>This fiscal period <strong>has not yet completed</strong>,
but <a href="https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/return-due-dates-for-exempt-organizations-annual-return">the
2023 filing deadline for FY 2023-24 is 2024-07-15</a>. The IRS typically
grants an extension to 2025-01-15, and we may seek the extension.</p>
</li>
<li>Filing Year 2022: Fiscal Year from 2022-03-01 through 2023-02-28<br/>
<ul>

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{% extends "base_compliance.html" %}
{% block subtitle %}Copyleft Compliance Projects - {% endblock %}
{% block submenuselection %}ImpactLitigationCopyleft{% endblock %}
{% block submenuselection %}PastLawsuits{% endblock %}
{% block content %}
<h1>Impact Litigation for Copyleft</h1>
<h1>Previous Copyleft Litigation</h1>
<p>Pursuant to our <a href="/copyleft-compliance/principles.html">Principles of
Community-Oriented GPL enforcement</a>, Software Freedom Conservancy
(<abbr>SFC</abbr>) engages in
litigation only as an last resort when other methods to adjudicate users'
rights under copyleft fail. However, when necessary, SFC engages in impact
litigation in lawsuits around the world &mdash; both as a Plaintiff
ourselves and by paying the legal fees of other Plaintiffs.</p>
Community-Oriented GPL enforcement</a>, Software Freedom Conservancy sees
litigation as an last resort when other methods to achieve copyleft
compliance fail. Below, we discuss the outcome of past compliance
lawsuits where Conservancy played a role.</p>
<h2>Current Copyleft Litigation</h2>
<h2 id="best-buy-et-al">Software Freedom Conservancy v. Best Buy, et al</h2>
Our current impact litigation against <a href="/vizio/">Vizio</a> is ongoing
to establish users' rights under the GPLv2 and LGPLv2.1. Please
do <a href="/vizio/">read more about it</a> and <a href="/sustainer">donate
to support this work!</a>
<p>On 14 December 2009, Software Freedom Conservancy filed a federal copyright
lawsuit against 14 defendants, including Best Buy, Samsung, Westinghouse, and
JVC.
The <a href="https://ia600207.us.archive.org/21/items/gov.uscourts.nysd.355978/gov.uscourts.nysd.355978.docket.html">docket
of that lawsuit is available (on archive.org)</a> and
the <a href="/docs/busybox-complaint-2009-12-14.pdf">original complaint is on
our website</a>.</p>
<h2 id="#past">Past Copyleft Litigation</h2>
<p>Conservancy settled with each defendant at different times, and the
dismissals can be seen in the docket. Generally speaking, and pursuant to
our <a href="/copyleft-compliance/principles.html">Principles of
Community-Oriented GPL enforcement</a>, Conservancy never settles a lawsuit
unless we believe that full compliance has been achieved (or will be
achieved imminently) with the terms of <em>all</em> copyleft licenses
on <em>all</em> software included in the devices at issue in any lawsuit
that we've filed.</p>
These past lawsuits are listed in reverse chronological order.
<p>One oft-stated confusion about this litigation was that we sued Best Buy
for sales of third-party devices in their stores. <strong>That is not
accurate</strong>. Best Buy had a house-brand DVD player under the
&ldquo;Insignia&rdquo; &ldquo;house brand&rdquo; that they produced as
their own product.</p>
<h3 id="avm">Sebastian Steck's AVM Lawsuit</h3>
<h2 id="vmware">Christoph Hellwig's VMware Lawsuit</h2>
<p>This <acronym title="Software Freedom Conservancy">SFC</acronym>-funded user rights lawsuit was filed by Sebastian Steck in Berlin in 2023 and received a positive final decision from the court in June 2024 with AVM providing "the scripts used to control ... installation of the executable" for the LGPLv2.1 works in the AVM router that Steck purchased. More details are available in our press release and informational page, which provides the source code that was received from AVM allowing users to modify and reinstall copylefted works into the router's flash memory:</p>
<p>
<ul>
<li><a href="/news/2025/jan/09/avm-copyleft-lawsuit-resolved-with-install/">SFC-funded lawsuit gets software repair and reinstall for users of AVM routers</a></li>
<li><a href="/copyleft-compliance/avm.html">Court documents and source code of successful SFC-funded lawsuit in Germany against AVM</a></li>
</ul>
</p>
<h3 id="vmware">Christoph Hellwig's VMware Lawsuit</h3>
<p><acronym title="Software Freedom Conservancy">SFC</acronym> partially funded and assisted in coordination of Christoph
<p>Conservancy partially funded and assisted in coordination of Christoph
Hellwig's lawsuit against VMware in Germany. That case concluded in 2019.
You can view the relevant announcements and analysis that Conservancy has
published about the case below, starting with the announcement regarding
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</ul>
</p>
<h3 id="best-buy-et-al">Software Freedom Conservancy v. Best Buy, et al</h3>
<h2 id="avm">Sebastian Steck's AVM Lawsuit</h2>
<p>On 14 December 2009, <acronym title="Software Freedom Conservancy">SFC</acronym> filed a federal copyright
lawsuit against 14 defendants, including Best Buy, Samsung, Westinghouse, and
JVC.
The <a href="https://ia600207.us.archive.org/21/items/gov.uscourts.nysd.355978/gov.uscourts.nysd.355978.docket.html">docket
of that lawsuit is available (on archive.org)</a> and
the <a href="/docs/busybox-complaint-2009-12-14.pdf">original complaint is on
our website</a>.</p>
<p>This SFC-funded user rights lawsuit was filed by Sebastian Steck in Berlin in 2023 and received a positive final decision from the court in June 2024 with AVM providing "the scripts used to control ... installation of the executable" for the LGPLv2.1 works in the AVM router that Steck purchased. More details are available in our press release and informational page, which provides the source code that was received from AVM allowing users to modify and reinstall copylefted works into the router's flash memory:</p>
<p>SFC settled with each defendant at different times, and the
dismissals can be seen in the docket &mdash; the last occurring in
September 2012. Generally speaking, and pursuant to
our <a href="/copyleft-compliance/principles.html">Principles of
Community-Oriented GPL enforcement</a>, Conservancy never settles a lawsuit
unless we believe that full compliance has been achieved (or will be
achieved imminently) with the terms of <em>all</em> copyleft licenses
on <em>all</em> software included in the devices at issue in any lawsuit
that we've filed.</p>
<p>
<ul>
<li><a href="/news/2025/jan/09/avm-copyleft-lawsuit-resolved-with-install/">SFC-funded lawsuit gets software repair and reinstall for users of AVM routers</a></li>
<li><a href="/copyleft-compliance/avm.html">Court documents and source code of successful SFC-funded lawsuit in Germany against AVM</a></li>
</ul>
</p>
{% endblock %}

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<li><span>Court Type:</span> Orange County Superior Court</li>
<li><span>Status:</span> Ongoing</li>
<li><span>Last Update:</span> July 15, 2025</li>
<li><span>Trial Date:</span> <a href="/news/2025/jul/24/travel-grants-for-vizio-trial-to-foss-community/">January 12, 2026</a></li>
<li><span>Trial Date:</span> <a href="/news/2025/jul/24/travel-grants-for-vizio-trial-to-foss-community/">October 6, 2025</a></li>
</ul>
{% endblock %}
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<li><a href="https://usethesource.sfconservancy.org/tmp_vizio_docs/488.pdf">Request for judicial notice in support of Motion for Summary Adjudication</a></li>
<li><a href="https://usethesource.sfconservancy.org/tmp_vizio_docs/490.pdf">Appendix of exhibits</a></li>
<li><a href="https://sfconservancy.org/docs/2025-08-01_SFC-vs-Vizio_Vizio-response-to-second-SFC-MSA.pdf">Vizio's response to SFC's Second Motion for Summary Adjudication (2025-08-01)</a></li>
<li><a href="https://sfconservancy.org/docs/2025-08-15_SFC-vs-Vizio_SFC-reply-to-Vizio-response-to-second-SFC-MSA.pdf">SFC's reply to Vizio's response to SFC's Second Motion for Summary Adjudication (2025-08-15)</a></li>
</ul>
</details>

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{% extends "base_compliance.html" %}
{% block subtitle %}Copyleft Compliance Projects - {% endblock %}
{% block submenuselection %}ImpactLitigationCopyleft{% endblock %}
{% block submenuselection %}PastLawsuits{% endblock %}
{% block content %}
<h1 id="contribution-and-similarity-analysis-of-christoph-hellwigs-linux-code-as-found-in-vmware-esxi-5.5">Contribution and Similarity Analysis of Christoph Hellwig's Linux Code as found in VMware ESXi 5.5</h1>

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{% extends "base_compliance.html" %}
{% block subtitle %}Copyleft Compliance Projects - {% endblock %}
{% block submenuselection %}ImpactLitigationCopyleft{% endblock %}
{% block submenuselection %}PastLawsuits{% endblock %}
{% block content %}
<h2>The time has come to stand up for the GPL.</h2>

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{% extends "base_compliance.html" %}
{% block subtitle %}Copyleft Compliance Projects - {% endblock %}
{% block submenuselection %}ImpactLitigationCopyleft{% endblock %}
{% block submenuselection %}PastLawsuits{% endblock %}
{% block content %}
<h1>Frequently Asked Questions about Christoph Hellwig's VMware Lawsuit</h1>

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<h2 id="GiveUpGitHub">Give Up GitHub</h2>
<p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/15/codeberg_beset_by_ai_bots/">The
Register &ndash; Codeberg beset by AI bots that now bypass Anubis tarpit</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/19/github_copilot_copyright/">The Register - How GitHub Copilot could steer Microsoft into a copyright storm</a></p>
<p><a href="https://www.theregister.com/2022/06/30/software_freedom_conservancy_quits_github/">The Register - Open source body quits GitHub, urges you to do the same</a></p>
<p><a href="https://thenextweb.com/news/github-copilot-works-so-well-because-it-steals-open-source-code-strips-credit">The Next Web - GitHub Copilot works so well because it steals open-source code and strips credit</a></p>

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#container #sidebar.EnforcementStrategy ul li.EnforcementStrategy a,
#container #sidebar.CopyleftCompliance ul li.CopyleftCompliance a,
#container #sidebar.LiberateFirmware ul li.LiberateFirmware a,
#container #sidebar.GiveUpGitHub ul li.GiveUpGitHub a,
#container #sidebar.ImpactLitigationCopyleft ul li.ImpactLitigationCopyleft a,
#container #sidebar.PastLawsuits ul li.PastLawsuits a,
#container #sidebar.CopyleftOrg ul li.CopyleftOrg a /* Never put a comma here */
{
color: var(--white);

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<li class="VizioPhotoAssets"><a href="/docs/software-freedom-conservancy-v-vizio-photo-assets.zip">Photo Assets</a></li>
<li class="Glossary"><a href="/copyleft-compliance/glossary.html">Glossary</a></li>
</ul>
<h2>More About Our Copyleft Advocacy</h2>
<h2>More About Copyleft Compliance</h2>
<ul>
<li class="HelpComply"><a href="/copyleft-compliance/help.html">How To Help</a></li>
<li class="EnforcementStrategy"><a href="/copyleft-compliance/enforcement-strategy.html">Strategic GPL Enforcement Initiative</a></li>
<li class="ImpactLitigationCopyleft"><a href="/copyleft-compliance/past-lawsuits.html">Impact Litigation for Copyleft</a></li>
<li class="LiberateFirmware"><a href="/copyleft-compliance/firmware-liberation.html">Liberate IoT Firmware via GPL Enforcement</a></li>
<li class="CopyleftPrinciples"><a href="/copyleft-compliance/principles.html">Principles of Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement</a></li>
<li class="LiberateFirmware"><a href="/copyleft-compliance/firmware-liberation.html">Liberate IoT Firmware via GPL Enforcement</a></li>
<li class="PastLawsuits"><a href="/copyleft-compliance/past-lawsuits.html">Previous Copyleft Litigation</a></li>
<li class="CopyleftOrg"><a href="https://copyleft.org/">copyleft.org</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>

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strategies that defend FOSS (such as copyleft). <a href="/about" class="orange">Learn more.</a></p>
</section>
<section class="w-30-ns mh2 pa3 bg-light-blue ba b--gray">
<h2 class="f4 ttu">Give Up GitHub!</h2>
<p>There's never been a better time than now
to <a href="https://GiveUpGitHub.org"><em>Give Up GitHub!</em></a> Read
more about <a href="https://GiveUpGitHub.org">how &amp; why to give it up today&hellip;</a></p>
<h2 class="f4 ttu">Vizio Trial In Oct.!</h2>
<p>On <strong>MON 2025-10-06, the trial begins</strong> in SFC's historic <a href="/vizio">lawsuit against Vizio</a> for their
violations of GPLv2 &amp; LGPLv2.1. Would you like to attend the trial as an
observer? <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2025/jul/24/travel-grants-for-vizio-trial-to-foss-community/">Apply
for a travel grant today!</a>
</section>
</div>

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</a>
</li>
<li class="ImpactLitigaton">
<li class="CourtBattles">
<a class_="dropdown-item-link" href="/copyleft-compliance/past-lawsuits.html">
<h3>
Impact Litigation
Court Battles
</h3>
<p class_="dropdown-description">
We defend the legal rights of software users. Learn the details, status, and stakes of our court cases.
</p>
</a>
</li>
<li class="GiveUpGitHub">
<a class_="dropdown-item-link" href="https://GiveUpGitHub.org">
<h3>
Give Up GitHub
</h3>
<p class_="dropdown-description">
We urge FOSS Developers to <em>Give Up GitHub!</em> Learn why.
</p>
</a>
</li>
<li class="Outreachy">
<a class_="dropdown-item-link" href="https://outreachy.org">
<h3>

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<!-- <li><a href="{% url 'podjango:cast-home' podcast_slug='the-corresponding-source' %}">The Corresponding Source</a></li> -->
<li class="CopyleftCompliance"><a href="/copyleft-compliance/">Copyleft Compliance</a></li>
<li class="VizioTopBar"><a href="/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html">Vizio Lawsuit</a></li>
<li class="ImpactLitigationCopyleft"><a href="/copyleft-compliance/past-lawsuits.html#past">Past Impact Litigation</a></li>
<li class="GiveUpGitHub"><a href="https://GiveUpGitHub.org/"><em>Give Up GitHub!</em></a></li>
<li class="FIXME2"><a href="/copyleft-compliance/past-lawsuits.html">Previous Lawsuits</a></li>
<li class="FIXME"><a href="/projects/">Member Projects</a></li>
<li class="Outreachy"><a href="https://outreachy.org">Outreachy</a></li>
<li class="UseTheSource"><a href="{% url 'usethesource:landing' %}">Use The Source</a></li>