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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>

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    <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>

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<p>Sustainers help us do our work in a strategic, long-term way. We could not

  do this without the support and financial contributions of individuals like

  you. <a href="/sponsors/#sustainers">We list our Sustainers here</a>.</p>

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<p><h3>The wide range of work we engage in is supported by people like you. </h3></p>

<p>We are so proud that we're funded by individuals and stay unbeholden to corporate interests and pressures. We stand up for developers, consumers and those who have been historically excluded. We work to make technology truly fair for all. </p>

<p>Thank you for helping making this work possible:</p>

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  <li>Standing up for consumer rights in <a href="/copyleft-compliance/">copyleft compliance</a></li>

  <li>Supporting <a href="https://outreachy.org">Outreachy</a> with its increasing number of interns</li>

  <li>Bringing <a href="/vizio">legal action against prolific license violators</a></li>

  <li>Hiring team members to get projects <a href="https://reproducible-builds.org/news/">like Reproducible Builds</a> to continue pushing the forefront of software reproducibility</li>

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<h3 id="YearInReview">Our Year in Review</h3>

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<p>This past year we've all grown more conscious of our interconnected world.

   These events escalate the importance of free software tools that empower

   us all. Closed source and proprietary tools have overtaken many

   communication channels — particularly when we work from home. Even

   conferences and lecture series dedicated to “open source

   infrastructure” have been unable to escape the grasp of these closed

   systems. As we monitored these diffcult events, we prioritized support for

   those in our community that understand the crucial need

   for <a href="/blog/2021/feb/08/just-say-no-to-zoom/">conferences run

   solely with free software</a>.  We have been pleased to support free

   communication tools to assist with these efforts. <b>Our commitment to

   using, developing, and supporting free software tools and communities has

    never been stronger.</b></p>

<p>Over the past year, we took on new work that would have

  been <em>impossible</em> without your support. Last month, we filed

  a <a href="/vizio">lawsuit against long time license violator Vizio</a>.

  Through that lawsuit and many non-litigation ongoing license enforcement

  actions, Software Freedom Conservancy leads the field: We stand up for

  license compliance and holding corporation accountable when others

  won't. Our focus in software licensing defends consumer rights.  This novel and

  critical approach to license compliance culminates  years of effort by our amazing policy and legal experts. We

  believe software freedom, when properly and actively upheld, enables everyone to hold

  technology providers accountable to the people most 

  impacted by their actions.</p>

<p id="dmca-exemptions">This year, we filed more DMCA exemption requests than any organization in

  the country —