Copyleft Lawsuit Against Vizio Will Allow Anyone To Defend the Commons

Software Freedom Conservancy realizes the dream of ‘Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement’

Cory Doctorow
OneZero
Published in
4 min readOct 20, 2021

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When the free software movement started to make headway, proprietary software companies like Microsoft went to war against it, describing the licenses at its core (like the GPL) as “viral licenses” to…

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