<h3 id="end-users">end user</h3>

<p>An end user is someone who winds up using the software. In the case of TVs, an end user is simply the person who uses the TV. (See also third-party beneficiaries of the <acronym title="General Public License">GPL</acronym>)</p>

<h3 id="ethical-technology">ethical technology</h3>

<p>Technology that serves its users, rather than the corporations who profit from it. Ethical technology preserves and promotes the rights of those impacted by it. </p>

<h3 id="foss">FOSS</h3>

<p>Acronym for free and open source software (FOSS). See software freedom.</p>

<h3 id="foss-commons">FOSS commons</h3>

<p>The Digital Library of the Commons defines “commons” as “a general term for shared resources in which each stakeholder has an equal interest”. The FOSS commons refers to a commons for free and open source software (FOSS). See also software freedom.</p>

<h3 id="firmware">firmware</h3>

<p>Software on embedded devices that is written for the purpose of operating the specific hardware of that device.</p>

<h3 id="tar">GNU tar</h3>

<p>A copylefted program for storing large groups of files inside another file. Incredibly common and used ubiquitously. </p>

<h3 id="gpl">General Public License (GPL) </h3>

<p>A copyleft license that ensures end users the freedom to run, study, share, and modify the software. Often referred to as “the GPL.” Also known as GNU General Public License (GPL).</p>

<h3 id="gpl-software">GPL’d software</h3>

<p>Software that has been released under the terms of the <acronym title="General Public License">GPL</acronym>.</p>

<h3 id="right-to-repair">right-to-repair software</h3>

<h3 id="samygo">SamyGo project</h3>

<p>A software project designed to improve the functionality of the software on Samsung TVs. </p>

<h3 id="software">software (vs hardware)</h3>

<p>An analogy is that ingredients and tools for cooking are hardware and the recipe is software. Both the physical components (computers, phones, TVs) and the ideas (software, programs, algorithms) are necessary.</p>

<h3 id="devices">software-based electronics devices</h3>

<p>Devices like pacemakers have all the necessary hardware to beat your heart, but need the software to do it safely in a way that makes it useful. More and more devices are defined by their software, rather than the hardware (sensors, motors, radio, etc). </p>

<h3 id="software-freedom">software freedom</h3>

<p>The freedom of a user to run, study, (re)distribute, and (re)install (modified) versions of a piece of software. More generally, it is the idea that we are entitled to rights when using software and there should be equal protections for privacy and redistribution. The rights should treat everyone equally—big businesses and individual consumers and users alike.</p>

<h3 id="source-code">source code</h3>

<p>The human readable code written by people that gets turned into binary code that only a computer can understand. </p>

<h3 id="specific-performance">specific performance</h3>

<p>Fulfilling the requirements of a contract in exactly the way the contract specifies. When most contracts are disputed in court, the plaintiff expects to receive money, that they can use to remedy the harm that the other party caused them in not holding up their side of the deal. When a plaintiff seeks specific performance, they want something that money can’t replace.</p>

<h3 id="third-party-beneficiary">third-party beneficiaries of the GPL</h3>

<p>People who aren’t a party to a <acronym title="General Public License">GPL</acronym> agreement, but who would benefit from the contract if the parties to the <acronym title="General Public License">GPL</acronym> do as they promise under the agreement. An example of such a benefit might be the receipt of the source code of the GPL’d software. See also General Public License (GPL).</p>

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