Is the contract restricted to the buyers, or to the "any 3rd party" of the GPL?

Posted Jan 9, 2026 13:07 UTC (Fri) by farnz (subscriber, #17727)
In reply to: Is the contract restricted to the buyers, or to the "any 3rd party" of the GPL? by nivedita76
Parent article: SFC v. VIZIO: who can enforce the GPL?

Manufacturer warranties are not always enforceable, depending on jurisdiction. And when they are enforceable, they're not always contract terms.

In places where they're not enforceable, they are legally good-will gestures from the manufacturer to the consumer; the manufacturer chooses to do something because they believe that the cost of fixing faults is outweighed by the reputational benefit of having consumers believe that the manufacturer will fix any faults they find.