Software Freedom Conservancy

Our Director of Compliance Denver Gingerich talks about his farming background and calls on John Deere to resolve its outstanding #GPL and LGPL violations, across all lines of its farm equipment. Farmers deserve the right they are owed to repair their tools. https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/mar/16/john-deere-gpl-violations/

The Community Call for Tracks for our new conference FOSSY ends this Sunday March 19th. Be sure to submit before midnight and be on the look out in the coming weeks for which tracks we've selected!
https://sfconservancy.org/fossy/community-tracks/

Starting in 5 minutes! Don't miss it! #scale20x

And don't miss Bradley M Kuhn's talk tomorrow at 13:30 in Ballroom F: "Learning From the Big Failures To Improve FOSS Advocacy and Adoption"
https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x/presentations/learning-big-failures-improve-foss-advocacy-and-adoption

And don't miss Bradley M Kuhn's talk tomorrow at 13:30 in Ballroom F: "Learning From the Big Failures To Improve FOSS Advocacy and Adoption"
https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x/presentations/learning-big-failures-improve-foss-advocacy-and-adoption

Setup at @socallinuxexpo for when the Expo Hall opens in an hour. Come visit and learn about FOSSY, our conference in Portland this July 13-16th!

Excited to see everyone at @socallinuxexpo tomorrow! Come find our booth and talk to Bradley M. Kuhn and @pono about recent compliance, diversity and inclusion efforts and the conference FOSSY that we're hosting this July in Portland, OR!

To celebrate "I love software freedom" day, listen to our Executive Director @karen talk with Bonnie Mehring from @fsfe about reaching younger people in our advocacy and the rise in awareness of software freedom for medical devices
https://fsfe.org/news/podcast/episode-19.en.html

We'll be at @socallinuxexpo in Pasadena, March 9-12th! Policy Fellow Bradley M. Kuhn is presenting "Learning From the Big Failures To Improve FOSS Advocacy and Adoption".
If you'd like to volunteer to at our booth or interested in attending, please email info@sfconservancy.org

Neo4j has not yet succeeded in eviscerating the AGPLv3. Check out our Policy Fellow's expert report in the Neo4j v. PureThink case: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2023/feb/09/kuhn-neo4j-purethink-expert-report/ Great analysis of the interesting ways AGPLv3 anticipated defending your software rights and freedoms

We recently put out our Call for Proposals for community tracks for our conference FOSSY happening July 13-16th in Portland, OR.
Come talk to us about what you'd like to host a track about for our conference!

We're at @fosdem this weekend!
Come talk to us about our license compliance work, diversity and inclusion efforts like @outreachy and what our member projects have been up to.
Find us in the stand hall (K building) near the west door.

Today we are officially opening our call for track proposals for our first annual conference FOSSY! We are looking for community driven tracks that can balance important and in depth technical and non-technical issues, while uplifting contributors of all experiences. If you are interested in hosting a track, please see our guidelines and expectations and don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions! You can reach us at conference@sfconservancy.org

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/jan/31/fossy-call-for-tracks/

https://sfconservancy.org/fossy/community-tracks/

As the class action lawsuit brought by Matthew Butterick against GitHub, Microsoft and OpenAI continues, we want to reiterate our Principles of Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/principles.html In our opinion, Copilot undermines copyleft licensing and makes egregious license violations easier than ever. Rather than primarily seeking financial compensation, we would hope this case strengthens the legal precedent for protecting users under copyleft principles.
See our previous writings on the case: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2022/nov/04/class-action-lawsuit-filing-copilot/

Tomorrow @karen will be giving a lecture "Software Rights: Accountability and Autonomy In Our Technology" at 15:00 UTC in recognition of the honorary doctorate being bestowed by KU Leuven, to read more about the Patroonsfeest celebration see our news item https://sfconservancy.org/news/2023/jan/30/karen-honorary-doctorate/

Addendum: Our posted time is incorrect, it is actually 16:00 UTC+1, so 15:00 UTC, 10:00 ET, 7:00 Pacific Time.

Our Executive Director @karen is being honored with a doctorate from KU Leuven for her incredible work in the advocacy for software freedom, especially in relation to medical devices.
She will be giving a livestreamed lecture tomorrow at 16:00 UTC.
https://www.kuleuven.be/events/en/lecture-karen-sandler-softwarerights

Just over 2 weeks until @fosdem ! We're so excited to see everyone in person and hoping we can wrangle some volunteers to help out at our booth to pass out stickers and represent @conservancy
If you are interested, please reach out to info@sfconservancy.org

Our fundraiser concluded with 34% over the match goal for software rights and freedom! Thanks to everyone who has donated or become a sustaining member of Software Freedom Conservancy. Your contributions help power this organization dedicated to pursuing software freedom for all.
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2023/jan/16/2023-fundraiser-successful/

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