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projects.</p>
<p>A coalition successfully enforced the GPL in this case, and Linksys
released source code A <a href="https://openwrt.org/about/history">group of
released source code. A <a href="https://openwrt.org/about/history">group of
volunteers quickly built a new project, called OpenWRT</a> based on that
source release. In the years that have followed, OpenWRT has been ported to
almost every major wireless router product. Now, more than 15 years later,
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cameras, police body cameras, cars, AV receivers, and televisions.</p>
<p>This wide deployment of general purpose computers into mundane household
devices raises profound privacy and consumer rights
devices has profound privacy and consumer rights
implications. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/15/us/Hacked-ring-home-security-cameras.html">Home</a> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/01/23/family-says-hacked-nest-camera-warned-them-north-korean-missile-attack/">security</a> <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/06/05/617196788/s-c-mom-says-baby-monitor-was-hacked-experts-say-many-devices-are-vulnerable">cameras</a> <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/12/tech/ring-security-camera-hacker-harassed-girl-trnd/index.html">are</a> <a href="https://abc7.com/baby-monitor-hack-leads-to-kidnap-scare/4931822/">routinely</a> <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-44117337/security-footage-viewed-by-thousands">compromised</a>
— invading the privacy and security of individual homes. Even when
companies succeed in keeping out third parties, consumers
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<p>“Internet of Things” firmware should never rely on one vendor — even the
vendor of the hardware itself. This centralized approach is brittle and
inevitably leads to invasions of the public’s privacy and control of their
inevitably leads to invasions of the public’s privacy and loss of control of their
technology. Conservancy plans to address this issue in the manner that the
FOSS community knows best: put one foot in front of the other, and work to
create FOSS for every possible task that users want to accomplish. For IoT
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market.</p>
<h3 id="demonstrating-the-power-of-software-freedom">Demonstrating the power
of software freedom,</h3>
of software freedom</h3>
<p>To many, the benefits of software freedom are abstract. For less technical
users, the idea of modifying or even reviewing the software on their
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<p>When alternative firmware projects like OpenWRT exist for IoT devices,
non-technical users can replace the software on their devices and benefit
from custom, community-controled software. Technical users are more likely
from custom, community-controlled software. Technical users are more likely
to contribute knowing their efforts will be meaningful.</p>
<p>However, decades of corporate involvement in copyleft have demonstrated
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Enforcement</h2>
<p><a href="enforcement-strategy.html">Conservancy plans to select a specific
violation and engage in litigation. Based on past experience, we expect
violation and engage in litigation.</a> Based on past experience, we expect
that the press and attention to that ongoing litigation will yield
increased responsiveness by violators throughout the industry. (A similar
outcome occurred after our litigation in 2006.) This expected change in
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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. (In our last fiscal year, Conservancy funded 160
contributors to work on FOSS)</p>
contributors to work on FOSS.)</p>
<p>In the initial phase of this grant, Conservancy will to select a specific
<p>In the initial phase of this grant, Conservancy will select a specific
class of device. Upon achieving compliant source releases in that
subindustry through GPL enforcement, Conservancy will launch an alternative
firmware project for that class of device.</p>
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periods for a grassroots hobbyist activity is quite challenging; we seek to
use this grant to bootstrap and catalyze interest and contribution to the
project. Ideally, Conservancy would run the project with a single full-time
staffer for a about a year, and achieve a volunteer base sufficient to
staffer for about a year, and achieve a volunteer base sufficient to
reduce funding to one part-time staffer.</p>
<h3 id="criteria-for-device-selection">Criteria for Device Selection</h3>