Kungiyar kare hakkin dan Adam ta Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) ta shigar da kara a kan Vizio saboda rashin bin ka'idodin lasisin GPL lokacin rarraba firmware don TV mai wayo bisa tsarin SmartCast. Shari'ar ta kasance sananne saboda ita ce ƙarar farko a cikin tarihi da aka shigar ba a madadin ɗan takarar ci gaba ba wanda ke da haƙƙin mallaka ga lambar, amma ta mabukaci wanda ba a ba shi lambar tushe na abubuwan da aka rarraba a ƙarƙashin lasisin GPL ba.
Lokacin amfani da lambar lasisin haƙƙin mallaka a cikin samfuran ta, masana'anta, don kiyaye ƴancin software, ya wajaba don samar da lambar tushe, gami da lambar don ayyukan da aka samo asali da umarnin shigarwa. Idan ba tare da irin waɗannan ayyuka ba, mai amfani yana rasa iko akan software kuma ba zai iya gyara kurakurai da kansa ba, ƙara sabbin abubuwa ko cire ayyukan da ba dole ba. Kuna iya buƙatar yin canje-canje don kare sirrin ku, gyara matsalolin da kanku waɗanda masana'anta suka ƙi gyarawa, da kuma tsawaita tsawon rayuwar na'urar bayan an daina goyan bayan ta a hukumance ko kuma ta daina aiki don ƙarfafa siyan sabon ƙira.
Da farko, ƙungiyar SFC ta yi ƙoƙarin cimma yarjejeniya cikin lumana, amma ayyuka ta hanyar lallashi da bayanai ba su tabbatar da kansu ba kuma wani yanayi ya taso a cikin masana'antar na'urorin Intanet tare da rashin kula da bukatun GPL. Don fita daga cikin wannan hali da kuma kafa misali, an yanke shawarar yin amfani da tsauraran matakan shari'a don gurfanar da masu cin zarafi a gaban shari'a tare da shirya zanga-zangar nunin daya daga cikin mafi muni.
Shari'ar ba ta neman diyya ta kuɗi, SFC kawai ta nemi kotu ta tilasta wa kamfanin ya bi sharuɗɗan GPL a cikin samfuransa kuma ya sanar da masu amfani game da haƙƙoƙin da lasisin haƙƙin mallaka ya bayar. Idan an gyara laifukan, an cika duk buƙatun, kuma an samar da wani aiki don bin GPL a nan gaba, SFC ta shirya don kammala shari'ar shari'a nan da nan.
An fara sanar da Vizio game da cin zarafin GPL a watan Agusta 2018. Kimanin shekara guda kenan ana kokarin sasanta rikicin ta hanyar diflomasiyya, amma a watan Janairun 2020, kamfanin ya fice daga tattaunawar gaba daya kuma ya daina amsa wasiku daga wakilan SFC. A cikin Yuli 2021, an kammala zagayowar tallafi don ƙirar TV, a cikin firmware wanda aka gano cin zarafi, amma wakilan SFC sun gano cewa ba a la'akari da shawarwarin SFC ba kuma sabbin na'urori suma sun saba wa sharuɗɗan GPL.
Musamman ma, samfuran Vizio ba su ba da damar mai amfani don buƙatar lambar tushe na abubuwan GPL na firmware dangane da kernel Linux da yanayin tsarin da aka saba wanda fakitin GPL kamar U-Boot, Bash, gawk, GNU tar, glibc, FFmpeg, Bluez, BusyBox, Coreutils, glib, dnsmasq, DirectFB, libgcrypt da systemd. Bugu da ƙari, kayan bayanan ba su ƙunshi kowane ambaton amfani da software a ƙarƙashin lasisin haƙƙin mallaka da haƙƙoƙin da waɗannan lasisin suka bayar.
A cikin yanayin Vizio, bin tsarin GPL yana da mahimmanci musamman idan aka yi la'akari da shari'o'in da suka gabata wanda aka zargi kamfanin da keta sirri da aika bayanan sirri game da masu amfani daga na'urori, gami da bayanai game da fina-finai da shirye-shiryen TV da suka kallo.
source: budenet.ru