😲 👀 … 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 takes it all under advisement. She hopes to rule both on this motion and the one from three weeks ago before the end of the calendar year.
#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!!!
#Vizio lawyer is conflating two completely different claims: he's confusing that (a) #SFC is a third party beneficiary under the #GPLv2 itself, and (b) that #SFC accepted a new contract *that Vizio offered us* *during* the case to give us source code.
#Vizio is also arguing that we had no right to ask for source code while we were suing them. When they added an offer, which they *gave us*, we tested it.
