Changeset - 0967c8379c63
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Denver Gingerich - 4 years ago 2020-07-20 18:25:21
denver@ossguy.com
Copyleft Compliance: minor word updates/HTML fixes
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  and "the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the
 
  executable".</p>
 

	
 
<p>We encourage our supporters and software freedom enthusiasts everywhere to
 
  <a href="/copyleft-compliance/enforcement-strategy.html">read our detailed
 
  strategic plan for GPL enforcement</a> and its companion
 
  project, <a href="/copyleft-compliance/firmware-liberation.html">Our
 
  project, <a href="/copyleft-compliance/firmware-liberation.html">our
 
    Firmware Liberation Project</a>.</p>
 

	
 
<h2 id="projects">Compliance Relationship to Fiscally Sponsored Projects</h2>
 

	
 
<p>Historically, Conservancy was well-known for its ongoing license
 
compliance efforts on behalf of its BusyBox member project.  Today,
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  (such as dealing
 
  with <a href="https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/network/traffic-shaping/sqm">the
 
  dreaded “bufferbloat” bugs</a>). This interplay between the hobbyist
 
  community and for-profit ventures promotes innovation in
 
  technology. Without both permission <em>and</em> the ability to build and
 
  modify the software on their devices, the hobbyist community
 
  shrinks. Without intervention to assure companies respect the hobbyist
 
  shrinks. Without intervention to ensure companies respect the hobbyist
 
  community, hobbyists are limited by the oft-arbitrary manufacturer-imposed
 
  restraints in the OEM firmware. OpenWRT saved the wireless router market
 
  from this disaster; we seek to help other embedded electronic subindustries
 
  avoid that fate. The authors of GPL’d software chose that license so its
 
  source is usable and readily available to hobbyists. It is our duty, as
 
  activists for the software freedom of hobbyists, to ensure these legally
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  products and makes a bona fide commitment to future compliance.</p>
 

	
 
<p>Conservancy, after years of analyzing its successes and failures of
 
  previous GPL compliance litigation, has developed — in conjunction with
 
  litigation counsel over the last year — new approaches to litigation
 
  strategy.  We believe this will bring to fruition the promise of copyleft:
 
  a license that assures the rights and software freedoms of hobbyists who
 
  a license that ensures the rights and software freedoms of hobbyists who
 
  seek full control and modifiability of devices they own. With the benefit
 
  of this grant, Conservancy plans to accelerate these plans in 2020 and to
 
  keep the public informed at every stage of the process.</p>
 

	
 
<h3 id="persistent-non-litigation-enforcement">Persistent Non-Litigation Enforcement</h3>
 

	
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{% block subtitle %}Copyleft Compliance Projects - {% endblock %}
 
{% block submenuselection %}EnforcementStrategy{% endblock %}
 
{% block content %}
 

	
 
<h1 id="software-freedom-conservancy-proposal-for-firmware-liberation-project">Firmware Liberation Project</h1>
 

	
 
Conservancy plans to select a class of product in the Linux-based embedded
 
<p>Conservancy plans to select a class of product in the Linux-based embedded
 
system space.  For this product, Conservancy will launch, or assist, a
 
project that creates a functioning alternative firmware for those devices.
 
The promise of GPL enforcement is only realized through actual, practical use
 
and improvement of the released software for users.
 
and improvement of the released software for users.</p>
 

	
 
<h2 id="gpl-enforcement-needs-follow-through">GPL Enforcement Needs Follow-Through</h2>
 

	
 
<p>Simply enforcing the GPL is an important first step, and Conservancy
 
  <a href="enforcement-strategy.html">continues our efforts in that
 
  regard</a>. However, We can
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<p>Conservancy has seen non-compliant Linux-based firmwares on refrigerators,
 
  baby monitors, virtual assistants, soundbars, doorbells, home security
 
  cameras, police body cameras, cars, AV receivers, and televisions.  We
 
  believe that building an alternative firmware for one of these classes of
 
  devices &mdash; or joining our work with an existing alternative firmware project
 
  that is struggling due to lack of sources available &mdash; will lead to
 
  more palatable software freedom for users of these device.</p>
 
  more palpable software freedom for users of these device.</p>
 

	
 

	
 
<h2 id="limited-success-of-alternative-hardware">Limited Success of
 
  Alternative Hardware</h2>
 

	
 
<p>Alternative hardware projects remain an essential component of small
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