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Breaking news: the tentative ruling for today's #Vizio hearing just came out in favor of SFC's summary adjudication motion! This isn't a final ruling, but indicates how the judge is leaning in advance of the hearing. The hearing will begin at 10am pacific and will likely begin with other cases scheduled to be heard today.
https://www.occourts.org/sites/default/files/oc/default/tentative-rulings/slealrulings.pdf
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😲 👀 … Judge Leal in #SFC's landmark impact litigation against #Vizio (regarding their violations of #GPLv2 & #LGPLv2_1) is leaning toward partially granting our motion for summary adjudication.
Such motions are difficult to win, so this is amazing.
Her decision is tentative; join the hearing today (details in linked post) to hear the oral arguments in real time.
I'll live updates of the hearing in this thread.
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2025/dec/04/tentative-vizio-ruling-in-favor-of-sfc/
😲 👀 … Judge Leal in #SFC's landmark impact litigation against #Vizio (regarding their violations of #GPLv2 & #LGPLv2_1) is leaning toward partially granting our motion for summary adjudication.
Such motions are difficult to win, so this is amazing.
Her decision is tentative; join the hearing today (details in linked post) to hear the oral arguments in real time.
I'll live updates of the hearing in this thread.
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2025/dec/04/tentative-vizio-ruling-in-favor-of-sfc/
#SFC lawyers argue correctly that the Judge got it right in the tentative ruling: the contract we accepted when we exercised the new offer when #Vizio updated their offer during the case.
#Vizio's lawyer dubiously claims that because we said the offer was invalid when the case *started* means we can never test the offer for source later when they fixed it during the case.
Effectively, Vizio is effectively saying if you're in a #GPL lawsuit, you lose your right to even ask for source at all!!!
Breaking news: the tentative ruling for today's #Vizio hearing just came out in favor of SFC's summary adjudication motion! This isn't a final ruling, but indicates how the judge is leaning in advance of the hearing. The hearing will begin at 10am pacific and will likely begin with other cases scheduled to be heard today.
https://www.occourts.org/sites/default/files/oc/default/tentative-rulings/slealrulings.pdf
😲 👀 … Judge Leal in #SFC's landmark impact litigation against #Vizio (regarding their violations of #GPLv2 & #LGPLv2_1) is leaning toward partially granting our motion for summary adjudication.
Such motions are difficult to win, so this is amazing.
Her decision is tentative; join the hearing today (details in linked post) to hear the oral arguments in real time.
I'll live updates of the hearing in this thread.
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2025/dec/04/tentative-vizio-ruling-in-favor-of-sfc/
A window into how hectic & 14-hour-day-inducing it is to work for a tiny charity like #SFC:
Right now, I'm (a) listening to live deposition of #Vizio's expert witness in our landmark impact litigation regarding #GPL, (b) generating a fundraising email to ask our donors to please renew as #SoftwareFreedom #Conservancy sustainers <https://sfconservancy.org/sustainers/>, & (c) desperately copying files to my new laptop as my current one is failing in real time.
All happening in real time. Welcome to my world.
@nivex While I understand your concern,I must ask … is getting full IPv6 infrastructure set up w/ our hosters top priority for #SFC? Should we set aside other urgent work,such as #Vizio case,to do it?
I'll add it low priority on our agenda, but we've a single sysadmin , @paulv, covering all of SFC needs—internal & external.
My job in part is to prioritize limited resources right,so the salient question is: ∃ ppl who'd never see https://giveupgithub.org b/c it has no AAAA record?
d@nny disc@ mc²
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I suspect surprise at this …
https://fedi.copyleft.org/@bkuhn/115010692432308881
… is b/c most don't know #LinuxFoundation has (for 10 yrs) slowly become less of a #FOSS org. LF has developed multiple proprietary platforms (e.g., https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2019/mar/13/lf-community-bridge/ ). Mike Dolan of LF is a friendly witness for #Vizio — a known #GPL violator (See https://sfc.ngo/vizio — we expect to release Dolan's transcript soon).
Cc: @derderwish @jwildeboer @celesteh @hipsterelectron @richlv @hrw @tobi @shine @alltherum @nirro @haui
@ikuturso
theruran 💻 🌐 :cereal_killer:
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@smallcircles
It's a hard & difficult job to write new licenses, particularly a license that serves the users (& not lawyers and their wealthy Big Tech clients.)
It's a hard & difficult job to write new licenses, particularly a license that serves the users (& not lawyers and their wealthy Big Tech clients.)
#copyleft- @next will move slowly & steadily. I must focus on the final days of the #Vizio case before trial, but I'm looking forward to my “vacation” after the Vizio trial to be work on #copyleft -next!
Watch https://sfc.ngo/vizio/ for more info on #Vizio case!
@smallcircles
It's a hard & difficult job to write new licenses, particularly a license that serves the users (& not lawyers and their wealthy Big Tech clients.)
It's a hard & difficult job to write new licenses, particularly a license that serves the users (& not lawyers and their wealthy Big Tech clients.)
#copyleft- @next will move slowly & steadily. I must focus on the final days of the #Vizio case before trial, but I'm looking forward to my “vacation” after the Vizio trial to be work on #copyleft -next!
Watch https://sfc.ngo/vizio/ for more info on #Vizio case!
@linuxfoundation
„The Linux Foundation chose to host a workshop on the topic of open data at the 11th meeting of the World Open Innovation Conference. Fueling interest and participation in the workshop was the rapid growth of artificial intelligence software (AI), which requires extensive amounts of data to train the algorithms that AI employs.“
„The Linux Foundation chose to host a workshop on the topic of open data at the 11th meeting of the World Open Innovation Conference. Fueling interest and participation in the workshop was the rapid growth of artificial intelligence software (AI), which requires extensive amounts of data to train the algorithms that AI employs.“
Ah, that's why… 🙄
The GDPR makes it harder for citizens to become learning material of shitty parrot programs, aka "AI". That's not a bug.
I suspect surprise at this …
https://fedi.copyleft.org/@bkuhn/115010692432308881
… is b/c most don't know #LinuxFoundation has (for 10 yrs) slowly become less of a #FOSS org. LF has developed multiple proprietary platforms (e.g., https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2019/mar/13/lf-community-bridge/ ). Mike Dolan of LF is a friendly witness for #Vizio — a known #GPL violator (See https://sfc.ngo/vizio — we expect to release Dolan's transcript soon).
Cc: @derderwish @jwildeboer @celesteh @hipsterelectron @richlv @hrw @tobi @shine @alltherum @nirro @haui
@ikuturso
It's 01:27 in my TZ. #FOSSY25 wrap party ended about 2 hrs ago. But, sadly, after a near week of so much stuff to do in #Vizio case & #FOSSY, even though I'm exhausted I just can't sleep.
So I came home, & as I mentioned I an #MST3K lifelong fan. I turn on the 24/7 stream to help me sleep.
… #Manos … theeeee hands of Fate … can't imagine a better episode to be on at this moment.
Hard core MSTies know to only enter the “non-Torgo” division of cosplay at conventions. Always E_TOO_MANY_TORGOS.
In the *Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode called “Manos, The Hands of Fate”, during a “host segment”, Joel (dressed as Manos) & Crow (red-eyed like a demon) attempt to intimidate Tom Servo who just nonchalantly reads a magazine.
In the *Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode called “Manos, The Hands of Fate”, Manos (clad in a ceramonial robe of black & red) chastises his servant, Torgo (clad in an old fedora, a jacket, and carrying a walking staff.)
The shadow of Crow, Joel, and Tom Servo are visible in the bottom third — in the standard MST3K manner.
Ben Ramsey
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At #FOSSY25, I participated in a panel¹ discussion w/ @allison (SFC's Board Chairperson), Denver Gingerich, & Rick Sanders (SFC'S GC) about SFC's #Vizio case…
https://sfc.ngo/vizio
… There were lots of interesting questions both during the session & from the crowd that gathered afterward.
If you are not at #FOSSY & have questions of your own, feel free to ask them in this thread.
Also, come to the trial!!
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2025/jul/24/travel-grants-for-vizio-trial-to-foss-community/
¹ Sadly @karen couldn't travel here due to recent ❤️surgery.