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{% 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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    <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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    <h2 class="f4 ttu">Vizio Lawsuit</h2>
    <p>Software Freedom Conservancy files right-to-repair lawsuit against California TV manufacturer Vizio Inc. for alleged GPL violations</p>
    <a href="/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html" class="f5 dib pa2 ttu b btn-orange">More information</a>
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  <h2 class="f4 ma0 ttu"><a href="/news/2021/oct/28/2021-DMCA-final-exemptions-win/">Software Freedom Conservancy's DMCA Exemption Requests Granted</a></h2>
<p>Software Freedom Conservancy is proud to announce that its efforts to stand up for the rights of FOSS developers have been successful and that it has been granted almost all of the exemptions that it requested in the Librarian of Congress' recent rule making, according to the final rule <a href="https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2021-23311.pdf">Exemption to Prohibition on Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems for Access Control Technologies</a>, which was published today.  </p>
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<h2 class="f4 mt0 mb2 ttu"><!--<a href="/feeds/news/" class="feedlink"><img src="/img/feed-icon-14x14.png" alt="[RSS]"/></a>--> <a href="/news/" class="dark-gray">News</a></h2>
{% for pressr in press_releases|slice:":4" %}
  {% if forloop.first or pressr.pub_date|date_within_past_days:365 %}
    {% if not forloop.first %}<hr class="clear">{% endif %}
    {% include "news/pressrelease_partial.html" with pressr=pressr show="dateline" only %}
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<!-- <p><span class="continued"><a href="/news/">Conservancy News Archive&hellip;</a></span></p> -->
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    {% if not forloop.first %}<hr class="clear">{% endif %}
    {% include "blog/entry_partial.html" with entry=entry show="dateline" only %}
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    <h3 class="ttu">Term of the week</h3>
    <h4 class="f4 mt3 mb2 i navy">copyleft compliance</h4>
    <p>When companies utilize copylefted software, they thereby agree to the terms associated with its use. By utilizing copylefted software when designing products, companies agreed to these terms, and so have both contractual and copyright obligations to take certain actions to ensure others have the same rights they did with regard to the software.</p>
<p>When rights are respected, the sharing of software under copyleft licensing is a mutually beneficial approach, but many companies are not holding up their side of the bargain. A company is in compliance when it ensures that all of its customers have the same rights, permission, and ability that it has to improve that software and install their improvements onto a device. The best way a company can demonstrate its intent to be in full compliance is by creating a vibrant third-party marketplace for improved software.</p>
    <p><a href="/copyleft-compliance/glossary.html" class="orange ttu">Visit our glossary of terms</a></p>
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    <h2 class="f6 ttu mt2 mb1">Follow us</h2>
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