{% 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/" />
<style>
 #mainContent hr {
   /* Hide the <hr> elements in the list of news and blog items. */
   display: none;
 }

 .date {
   font-size: 1em;
   font-style: normal;
   margin-top: 0;
 }

 .press-release h3, .blog-entry h3 {
   margin-bottom: 0;
 }
</style>
{% endblock %}

{% block content %}

<div class="mt3 mh2-ns pt2 flex-ns">
  <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>
  </section>
  <section class="w-30-ns mh2 pa3 bg-light-blue ba b--gray">
    <h2 class="f4 ttu">Vizio Trial This September!</h2>
    <p>SFC's historic <a href="/vizio">lawsuit against Vizio</a> for their
      violations of the GPLv2 &amp; LGPLv2.1 goes to trial starting MON
      2025-09-22.  Would you like an opportunity 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>

<div class="mt3 mh2-ns mb4 flex-ns">
  <div class="w-70-ns mh2">
<section class="mh0 pa3 bg-light-blue ba b--gray">
<video style="height: auto;" controls="" poster="/videos/sfc-introduction-video_poster.jpg">
<source src="/videos/sfc-introduction_1080p.mp4" />
<track src="{% static 'docs/sfc-introduction-vtt-captions.txt' %}" kind="subtitles" srclang="en" label="English" />
<a href="/videos/sfc-introduction_1080p.mp4"><img src="/videos/sfc-introduction-video_poster.jpg" alt="Software Freedom Conservancy introduction video"></a><br/>
<a href="https://youtu.be/yCCxMfW0LTM">(watch on Youtube)</a>
</video>
 </section>

    <section class="mv3 ph2">
<h2 class="f4 mt0 mb2 ttu"><!--<a href="/feeds/news/" class="feedlink"><img src="{% static '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 %}
    {% include "news/pressrelease_partial.html" with pressr=pressr show="summary" only %}
  {% else %}
    {% include "news/pressrelease_partial.html" with pressr=pressr show="dateline" only %}
  {% endif %}
{% endfor %}

<!-- <p><span class="continued"><a href="/news/">Conservancy News Archive&hellip;</a></span></p> -->
</section>

<section class="mt4 mb3 ph2">
<h2 class="f4 mb2 ttu"><!-- <a href="/feeds/blog/" class="feedlink"><img src="{% static 'img/feed-icon-14x14.png' %}" alt="[RSS]"/></a> --> <a href="/blog/" class="dark-gray">Articles</a></h2>
{% 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 %}
{% endfor %}

<!-- <p><span class="continued"><a href="/blog/">Conservancy Blog Archive&hellip;</a></span></p> -->
</section>
</div>

<div class="w-30-ns mh2">
  <div class="ph3 pv2 ba b--gray">
    <h3 class="ttu">Featured Term</h3>
    <h4 id="summary-judgment">Summary Judgment</h4>
<p>In a <em>summary judgment</em> motion, a party in a lawsuit asks the Court
to rule immediately on some (or all) of the claims made
in <a href="#complaint">the complaint</a>.  A motion for summary judgment on
just some issues is called &ldquo;partial&rdquo; &mdash;.  To rule
affirmatively for summary judgment, the Judge must determine there are no
issues of <em>fact</em> in dispute on the issue(s) in question.  The Judge
rules as a matter of <em>law</em> on the issue.  In some state courts &mdash;
including California &mdash; these motions are called &ldquo;motion for
summary adjudication&rdquo;.</p>
    <p><a href="/copyleft-compliance/glossary.html" class="orange ttu">Visit
    our full glossary of terms &hellip;</a></p>
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    <div class="ml2">
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    <h2 class="f6 ttu mt2 mb1">Follow us</h2>
    <div class="ml2">
      {% include 'socials_partial.html' %}
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{% endblock %}