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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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