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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>