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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 has filed a Motion for Remand in our lawsuit against Vizio for their flagrant GPL & LGPL violations</p>
    <a href="/blog/2021/dec/28/vizio-update-1/" class="f5 dib pa2 ttu b btn-orange">More information</a>
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<p>We recently filed <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cacd.837808/gov.uscourts.cacd.837808.14.0.pdf">a Motion for Remand in our
lawsuit against Vizio</a> for their flagrant GPL violations, alleged
with great detail in <a href="/docs/software-freedom-conservancy-v-vizio-complaint-2021-10-19.pdf">our complaint in California state
court</a>.  This skirmish in what will likely be a long lawsuit is of particular interest, because the issues explored
directly address one fundamental legal truth of the GPL: it simultaneously operates as a copyright license granted by the copyright holders and as a contract that benefits everyone in the software supply chain &mdash; most importantly, the consumers at the end of that supply chain. <a href="/blog/2021/dec/28/vizio-update-1/">Read more&hellip;</a></p>
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    <h3 class="ttu">Term of the week</h3>
    <h4 id="right-to-repair">right-to-repair software</h4>
    <p>The ability to repair the software on your device in the same way you can repair the physical aspects of your tools. Software Freedom Conservancy asserts that this right is overlooked and needs additional legal protections (as the <acronym title="Federal Trade Commission">FTC</acronym> has agreed with) to protect consumers. Software Freedom Conservancy focuses specifically on the right to software repair; other great organizations like the <a href="https://www.repair.org/">Repair Association</a> focus on the right to hardware repair. The two rights go hand-in-hand in our modern world where nearly all electronic devices also have small computers inside them.</p>
    <p><a href="/copyleft-compliance/glossary.html" class="orange ttu">Visit our glossary of terms</a></p>
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