Chasing Quick Fixes To Sustainability
Today, another for-profit company, GitHub, announced their sponsors program. We're glad that GitHub is taking seriously the issue of assuring that those doing the work in FOSS are financially...
View ArticleWe Support GNOME Foundation's Fight Against a Patent Troll
Conservancy is always opposed to the use of patents to curtail free software development and use. In the recent case against GNOME, we also care deeply about the code base. The Yorba Foundation,...
View ArticleShare Our Mission with Three Friends (and get a prize!)
We know that our Supporters are our biggest advocates, spreading the word about the work we're doing and helping us to reach our match goal. We want to thank you for doing this and inspire you to help...
View ArticleToward Copyleft Equality for All
As pressure to expand copyleft into new territory becomes a standard request, now is the time that we must end the proprietary relicensing exploitation of copyleft. Proprietary relicensing is an...
View ArticlePublic Support Makes All the Difference for GPL Compliance
In starting the new year, I am reminded of what we accomplished last year, but also of what we urgently need to get done this year. What I do at Conservancy is relatively unique, not just within...
View ArticleSome Work-At-Home Tips for FOSS Contributors
The global COVID-19 pandemic has changed everyone's lives, and taken the lives of so many of our family members and friends. For those of us that have been spared, our lives must continue, and this is...
View ArticleAsking Microsoft to resign from the RIAA over youtube-dl takedown demand
We learned on Friday that GitHub removed youtube-dl's primary collaboration forum and code repository from their site, which had been hosted at https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl. The action was in...
View ArticleGive Up GitHub: The Time Has Come!
Those who forget history often inadvertently repeat it. Some of us recall that twenty-one years ago, the most popular code hosting site, a fully Free and Open Source (FOSS) site called SourceForge,...
View ArticleHow we all develop and support free software
Today is Giving Tuesday, and I'd like to share part of my story that brought me to Software Freedom Conservancy. Having started as a donor over 5 years ago, I find myself now with even more passion for...
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