Villa: Will the new judicial ruling in the Vizio lawsuit strengthen the GPL? (lwn.net)
from eah@kbin.social to linux@lemmy.ml on 21 Jan 2024 16:08
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Luis Villa writes about the recent ruling in the Software Freedom Conservancy's GPL-violation lawsuit against Vizio, wherein the judge refused to agree that the SFC lacks standing to sue.

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conciselyverbose@kbin.social on 21 Jan 2024 16:43 next collapse

The actual blog post

Rentlar@lemmy.ca on 21 Jan 2024 18:50 collapse

I’m glad the judge has actually looked at the GPL and understands its purpose, the benefits to the licensee and in exchange the obligations it puts upon the licensee to both the licensor and the public.