The Software Freedom Conservancy provides
an update on its suit against Vizio for
copyleft license violations. Vizio’s response was not to release the
source code:
Instead, Vizio filed
a request to “remove” the case from California State Court (into US federal
court), which indicates Vizio’s belief that consumers have no
third-party beneficiary rights under copyleft! In other words, Vizio’s
answer to this complaint is not to comply with the copyleft licenses, but instead imply that Software Freedom Conservancy — and all other purchasers of the devices who might want to assert their right under GPL and LGPL to complete, corresponding source — have no right to even ask for that source code.