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<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 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>
seek full control and modifiability of devices they own. Conservancy plans
to accelerate these plans in late 2020 into early 2021 and we'll keep the
public informed at every stage of the process.</p>
<h3 id="persistent-non-litigation-enforcement">Persistent Non-Litigation Enforcement</h3>
<p>While we will seek damages to cover our reasonable costs of this work, we
do not expect that any recovery in litigation can fully fund the broad base
of work necessary to ensure compliance and the software freedom it brings.
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devices we previously had no idea contained Linux, and we’ll begin our
diligent and unrelenting work to achieve software freedom for the owners of
those devices. We will also build more partnerships across the technology
sector and consumer rights organizations to highlight the benefit of
copyleft to not just hobbyists, but the entire general public.</p>
<h3 id="alternative-firmware-project">Alternative Firmware Project</h3>
<h3 id="alternative-firmware-project"><a href="/copyleft-compliance/firmware-liberation.html">Alternative Firmware Project</a></h3>
<p>The success of the OpenWrt project, born from GPL enforcement, has an
important component. While we’ve long hoped that volunteers, as they did
with OpenWrt and SamyGo, will take up compliant sources obtained in our GPL
enforcement efforts and build alternative firmware projects, history shows
us that the creation of such projects is not guaranteed and exceedingly
rare.</p>
<p>Traditionally, our community has relied exclusively on volunteers to take
up this task, and financial investment only comes after volunteers have put
in the unfunded work to make an MVP alternative firmware. While volunteer
in the unfunded work to make an <acronym title="minimal viable product">MVP</acronym> alternative firmware. While volunteer
involvement remains essential to the success of alternative firmware
projects, we know from our fiscal sponsorship work that certain aspects of
FOSS projects require an experienced charity to initiate and jump-start
some of the less exciting aspects of FOSS project creation and
development.</p>