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"Copyleft compliance". Some argue the GPL and other copyleft licences help ensure the right to repair by helping to enforce the availability of source code.

> We recently launched Use The Source (alluded to above), which helps device owners and companies see whether source code candidates (the most important part of copyleft compliance) are giving users their software right to repair, i.e. whether they comply with the copyleft licenses they use.

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Ok, so nothing whatsoever to do with security at all.

Not nothing; source is necessary (though generally not sufficient) to produce patches.

Sure, but that only applies to devices that aren’t being maintained by someone else, and frankly, it’s not obvious to people who have to maintain their own devices and do a better job, so it’s not clear that there’s any particular argument associated with security here.

Just to be clear, I believe that copyleft compliance is important simply because it is the conditions under which the authors made their code available. I just don’t think the headline is honest.

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