{% extends "base_conservancy.html" %}
{% load date_within %}
{% load static %}
{% block category %}Home{% endblock %}
{% block head %}
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Software Freedom Conservancy Complete Feed" href="/feeds/omnibus/" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Software Freedom Conservancy News" href="/feeds/news/" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Software Freedom Conservancy Blogs" href="/feeds/blog/" />
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  <section class="w-70-ns mh2 mb3 mb0-ns pa2 ba bw1 b--light-blue overflow-auto">
    <p class="mb0" style="font-size: 18px">Software Freedom Conservancy is a nonprofit organization
centered around ethical technology. Our mission is to ensure the right to
repair, improve and reinstall software. We promote and defend these rights
through fostering free and open source software (FOSS) projects, driving
initiatives that actively make technology more inclusive, and advancing policy
strategies that defend FOSS (such as copyleft). <a href="/about" class="orange">Learn more.</a></p>
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  <section class="w-30-ns mh2 pa3 bg-light-blue ba b--gray">
    <h2 class="f4 ttu">SFC files updated MSA in Vizio</h2>
    <p>Recently, in the historic Vizio lawsuit, SFC has filed a new Motion for Summary Adjudication. Seeking to establish the right of "third-party beneficiaries" to the GPL. This is the right we are hope to enshrine for all users and recievers of copyleft software. Follow along as we move to trial later this year in this landmark lawsuit.</p>
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{% for pressr in press_releases|slice:":4" %}
  {% if forloop.first %}
    {% include "news/pressrelease_partial.html" with pressr=pressr show="summary" only %}
  {% else %}
    {% include "news/pressrelease_partial.html" with pressr=pressr show="dateline" only %}
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{% for entry in blog|slice:":5" %}
  {% if forloop.first or entry.pub_date|date_within_past_days:180 %}
    {% if not forloop.first %}<hr class="clear">{% endif %}
    {% include "blog/entry_partial.html" with entry=entry show="dateline" only %}
  {% endif %}
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    <h3 class="ttu">Featured Term</h3>
    <h4 id="foss-commons">third-party beneficiary</h4>
<p>People who aren’t a party to a <acronym title="General Public License">GPL</acronym> agreement, but who would benefit from the contract if the parties to the <acronym title="General Public License">GPL</acronym> do as they promise under the agreement. An example of such a benefit might be the receipt of the source code of the GPL’d software. See also General Public License (GPL).</p>
    <p><a href="/copyleft-compliance/glossary.html#third-party-beneficiary" class="orange ttu">Visit our glossary of terms</a></p>
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