Q&A with SFC staff tomorrow - learn more about Vizio!

Wed Dec 17 19:52:30 UTC 2025

		People are talking about the Vizio suit!
		      Q&A with SFC staff tomorrow

URL: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2025/dec/17/people-are-talking-about-the-vizio-suit/

Social media:
  https://social.sfconservancy.org/notice/B1LjWQt82aNLojndRI

After the positive tentative ruling [0] in our case against Vizio, we
gathered in Orange County with our lawyers for what is likely the last
hearing of 2025. Going into the hearing, the judge was leaning toward
concluding that a request for source code — pursuant to an offer under
the GPLv2 or LGPLv2.1 — constitutes a contract obligating the vendor to
provide that code to the purchaser. The hearing yielded excellent press
coverage, including from Tom Claburn of The Register [1] and by
Christine Hall in FOSS Force [2]. As always, you can find more about the
case on our Copyleft Compliance page [3].

The trial is coming right up on January 12. We look forward to arguing
that we (and all end users of copyleft software) are third party
beneficiaries under the GPL and have contractual rights to complete and
corresponding source code. We are excited to host some Q&As about the
case and our work generally. Join us Thursday (tomorrow!) and Friday
December 18th and 19th on BigBlueButton [4]:

$ date -d '2025-12-18 23:00:00 +0000'

$ date -d '2025-12-19 15:00:00 +0000'

If you love this work and want more of it, now is your chance to become
a Sustainer [5]. Until January 15th, any donation [6] you make will be
doubled during our fundraiser! Thank you so much for supporting us and
helping power the work we love to do.

[0] https://sfconservancy.org/news/2025/dec/04/tentative-vizio-ruling-in-favor-of-sfc/
[1] https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/05/vizio_gpl_source_code_ruling/
[2] https://fossforce.com/2025/12/judge-signals-win-for-software-freedom-conservancy-in-vizio-gpl-case/
[3] https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/vizio.html
[4] https://bbb-new.sfconservancy.org/rooms/sfc-donor-ama
[5] https://sfconservancy.org/sustainer/
[6] https://sfconservancy.org/donate