Software Freedom Conservancy

Software Freedom Conservancy | @conservancy@social.sfconservancy.org

Software Freedom Conservancy is a 501(c)(3) public charity that acts as a non-profit home for Free, Libre, and Open Source Software projects.

https://sfconservancy.org

Day 3 of @socallinuxexpo !!

Come visit out booth right up front of the expo hall.

Our Policy Fellow @bkuhn is speaking at 11:00 (20 minutes) in Ballroom H about the Vizio Trial. https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x/presentations/understanding-vizio-case-linux-freedom

And our Director of Compliance Denver Gingerich is speaking in Room 211 at 15:45 on the OpenWrt Build System. https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x/presentations/openwrt-one-build-system-lessons-all-compliance-and-how-broadly-apply-them

If you are in Vancouver, BC, please join us on March 22nd for a #FOSSY pre-event (the conference is not until August 6-9th).

You can learn more and RSVP on Fediverse here:

https://events.sfconservancy.org/1ukbcQFkKAEr0OrZ7PDgq

Very excited to be the Network Sponsor for @socallinuxexpo this week! We'll be setting up our booth today so come see us tomorrow when the expo hall opens!

We've just heard from the court, the #Vizio trial is scheduled for August 10th! You can join us at #FOSSY in Vancouver, BC and then head down the coast to California for the trial.

Thanks for all your support during this process and while we hope it doesn't get rescheduled again, we're ready to work to #DefendTheGPL as always!

Today we join various other FOSS advocacy groups like @fsfe @fdroidorg @eff in addressing an open letter to Google about #keepandroidopen We need open ecosystems and the move to "sideload" software has set a bad paradigm for having control over our devices. You can read more about it here:

https://sfconservancy.org/news/2026/feb/24/keep-android-open/

Not sure where asked for feedback about their developer verification program, but they surely didn't talk with devs, civil society, privacy organisations or their users

did since September, and interacted with folks in the Fediverse, forum, email and in person

They all voiced one opinion: "developer verification must be stopped"

@marcprux has written an open letter, signed by likeminded organisations who want to

Click: https://f-droid.org/2026/02/24/open-letter-opposing-developer-verification.html

We have published an open letter to Google opposing the Android Developer Verification Program with over 30 organizations as signatories: https://keepandroidopen.org/open-letter/

First page of the open letter opposing the Google Android Developer Verification program.

#FOSSY26 track proposals are open!! We take our inspiration from the devrooms at FOSDEM and LinuxConfAU's miniconfs. Some of the SFC hosted tracks you can look forward to FOSS in Daily Life, Licensing / Legal, and Software Coops. Thanks for helping us build #FOSSY26

https://sfconservancy.org/news/2026/feb/23/fossy-26-track-proposals-open/

Thanks to everyone for a successful fundraiser!! We can't believe we made our largest match yet for a total of $503,878!

We're so grateful for all the support and incredible contributions you all made this year. Can't wait for what's the come in the rest of 2026!!

Wowowow, only $1,405 remaining. Help us cross that line and power a great year of software freedom for all!!

Bit by bit, folks are kicking in for ! Just $2273 left to go!

Small donations in many ways are our most important. They show that people really care about free software and that the work we do speaks to the public interest at large.

Can you help us spread the word? You can check out our Year in Review here below the donation box:

https://sfconservancy.org/sustainer#yearinreview

The high profile that @conservancy brings are last resort - they are only the most visible part of our enforcement efforts.

We work hard to respond the violation reports we receive, and work with companies to get them into compliance.

We launched Use the Source to do more of our work in a way that people can see, and participate too, working towards using the source code we receive to do cool things with our own devices :)

Only $2401 left to our match goal!

https://sfconservancy.org/usethesource/

Can't believe we're so close, only $2,401 left to go!!

We're also proud of our member projects (we're picky about adding new member projects, so ones we add are very important for )! We have too many to mention them all heew, so I'll focus on our most recent ones (though perhaps you use ?)!

Did you know that U-boot is a part of ?

And X.org (no, not the .com one)!

And @sourceware!

And Liblouis!

There's less than $3k left to meet our match and just hours to do it! Can you help?

https://sfconservancy.org/sustainer/

Only $2,797 to go! Help us close out this years #SFC fundraiser, every little bit counts!

Everyone it's time! Today is the last day of @conservancy's fundraiser! We have about 20 hours to raise just $7,377! I think we can do this!

Help us spread the word! I'll be here talking about SFC's work until we get there! Ask any questions you'd like!

https://sfconservancy.org/sustainer/

Right on the heels of FOSDEM our team is back at work responding to the European Commission's Request for Feedback on European Digital Ecosystems. Our comment joins many others in underlining the role FOSS plays in digital sovereignty. Specifically calling our the critical importance of copyleft in this discussion. You can find our comment linked in our news item: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2026/feb/04/eu-submission-digital-ecosystems/

SFC team is back at work after FOSDEM! Just submitted to the European Commission's Request for Feedback on European Digital Ecosystems. Our submission joins many others (specifically the @fsfe advocating for the important of free software and in particular how critical the role of copyleft is in this venture. You can read more and get a link to our submission here:

https://sfconservancy.org/news/2026/feb/04/eu-submission-digital-ecosystems/

https://sfconservancy.org/sustainer/

I know it's been a long fundraising season given 's stretch match, but we are getting close to the end and we are just about to be ≤ $10k to raise to take advantage of all our generous match donations this season.

We'd really appreciate all who have donated, and hope that you can give a little bit more now.

Or, if you forgot to give last year, now is your change to double your donation.

Hello from !!!

We are getting very close to making our match challenge!!!! We have just $13,368 left to go!

Can we get there today? The in person number is updating faster than we can do the site but we'll be checking periodically to update before the end of the day!

https://sfconservancy.org/sustainer/

a pink post it hanging on a window, it has $13,380 crossed off and $13,368 written underneath. In the background you can see an academic building, with a staircase and grass of the campus in the midground

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