Our friends @conservancy đł are in the last stretch of their annual fundraiser!
They've been a great partner, both in helping us grow the project sustainability and being our legal home until we created @godotfoundation
You can support their work here: https://sfconservancy.org/sustainer/
https://sfconservancy.org/sustainer/
Become a Sustainer to support our critical copyleft compliance and enforcement efforts: https://sfconservancy.org/sustainer/#annual
the Software Freedom Conservancy (@conservancy) has 10 days left to reach a matching goal. they do great work! they established a legal right to request source code on copylefted code. They give paid internships to folks that need them most. They educate students & support free software developers. Consider pitching in:
https://sfconservancy.org/sustainer/
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Big news on the Vizio case - the court rejected Vizio's arguments in their summary judgment motion. The decision cuts to the core of the case, with clear and conclusive language. Now on to *our* motion for summary adjudication...
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2024/jan/03/vizio-sj-rejected/
You can read more about the decision and our own Motion for Summary Adjudication here: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2024/jan/03/vizio-sj-rejected/
Join us to ask questions and learn what SFC is up to on BigBlueButton: https://bbb.sfconservancy.org/b/pon-nxm-psh-pek
Can't wait to see you there!
I'm making my end of year donations today! Please please please include @conservancy in yours this year. I feel so lucky to work on this important cause with such an incredible team and your donation will make a world of difference as to whether we can keep doing it.
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Read more about our Director of Compliance's thoughts on how the Tesla efforts don't meet compliance standards and how that's harming consumers and endangering people. GPL compliance is not just a theoretical issue!
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/dec/21/tesla-no-source-code-no-safety/
You can read more about the report and ongoing work of the FTC here: https://www.ftc.gov/policy/advocacy-research/tech-at-ftc/2023/12/elevating-voices-creative-professionals-report-quote-book
We're hard at work ensuring your software freedom and digital rights. Just in the past week and a half, we've had major accomplishments:
* We joined an amicus curiae brief in Green v. Department of Justice along with other organizations. https://sfconservancy.org/news/2023/dec/06/sfc-amicus-curiae-in-dmca-suit/
* We started the December Outreachy round! 59 interns in eleven different countries will start work this week in 21 different FOSS communities. We canât wait to see all that the interns learn and accomplish.
* Since we first filed comments in the U.S. Copyright Officeâs so-called âArtificial Intelligence Studyâ, we've responded to Microsoft's comments to make sure we stay engaged and represent community over corporate interests. https://sfconservancy.org/news/2023/dec/11/response-to-bigtech-arguments-copyright-office/
* In our lawsuit against Vizio, we've filed a we submitted our âMotion for Summary Adjudicationâ, seeking a pre-trial ruling on two key arguments in the case. First, the motion seeks to establish that distributors of GPLâd and LGPLâd software (such as Vizio) have a legal duty to the recipients of the software to provide the complete, corresponding source code (CCS) upon request. Second, we counter Vizioâs claims that the contractual rights under the GPL Agreements are preempted by copyright law. in our view, third parties (i.e., consumers and users of the devices) do have a right to CCS â even if they are not a copyright holder. A blog post about this is soon to follow!
You can read our rebuttal here: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2023/dec/11/response-to-bigtech-arguments-copyright-office/