Software Freedom Conservancy
Software Freedom Conservancy is a not-for-profit charity that helps promote, improve, develop, and defend Free, Libre, and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects. Conservancy provides a non-profit home and infrastructure for FLOSS projects. This allows FLOSS developers to focus on what they do best — writing and improving FLOSS for the general public — while Conservancy takes care of the projects' needs that do not relate directly to software development and documentation.
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Conservancy is Heading to LibrePlanet 2017
March 22, 2017
Software Freedom Conservancy will have a major presence at LibrePlanet 2017 on March 25-26 on the campus of MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Hosted by the Free Software Foundation, LibrePlanet is an annual conference for software developers, policy experts, activists, and computer users to learn skills, share accomplishments, and address challenges relating to software freedom. Conservancy staffers and members of Conservancy's Evaluation Committee will give talks on a variety of topics; and, Conservancy will host a booth in the LibrePlanet exhibit hall.
Conservancy Blog
FSF's Stallman Applauds Conservancy's Linux Enforcement
by on May 11, 2017
In a blog post today, Richard M. Stallman of the Free Software Foundation applauds our work at Conservancy enforcing the GPL for Linux.Why GPL Compliance Tutorials Should Be Free as in Freedom
by on April 25, 2017
I am honored to be a co-author and editor-in-chief of the most comprehensive and detailed guide on matters related to compliance of copyleft software licenses such as the GPL. This book, Copyleft and the GNU General Public License: A Comprehensive Tutorial and Guide (aka the Copyleft Guide). However, the most important fact about the Copyleft Guide is not its useful and engaging content. More importantly, the license of this book gives freedom to its readers in the same way the license of the copyleft software does for its users. Specifically, we chose the CC BY-SA for this work. We believe that not just software, but any generally useful technical information that teaches people, should be freely sharable and modifiable by the general public. Unfortunately, other entities in the compliance industrial complex do not agree with us. I call on those entities to cease their hypocrisy and freely license their educational materials on copyleft compliance.
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