Judge hints Vizio TV buyers may have rights to source code licensed under GPL

Re:Judge hints Vizio TV buyers may have rights to source cod... by MattPalmer1086 on Thursday December 18, 2025 @05:06AM (#46310841)

The only licence Vizo had to use the GPL software and distribute it to their users required them to make the code available to them on request.

If they don't do that, they are in violation of copyright (since nothing else gives them permission to copy and distribute it).

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Re:Judge hints Vizio TV buyers may have rights to source cod... by charcircuit on Thursday December 18, 2025 @05:29AM (#46310996)

This article is not about whether Smartcast TV has all the neccessary licenses to be distributed. It's not the copyright owner of a dependency suing them.

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Re:Judge hints Vizio TV buyers may have rights to source cod... by microtherion on Thursday December 18, 2025 @06:26AM (#46311399)

They are being sued by the SFC, which has been deputized by the actual copyright holders to act on their behalf: https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/#linux

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Re:Judge hints Vizio TV buyers may have rights to source cod... by pabs3 on Friday December 19, 2025 @11:20PM (#46333588)

Except in this case, SFC are not suing on behalf of copyright holders, but as a third-party beneficiary of the GPL contract between copyright holders and Vizio.

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