Software Freedom Conservancy

So excited to be back at #SCaLE this year @scale@social.linux.pizza is one of our favorite events, so come visit us at our booth this weekend!

Relatedly, as an effort to help corporate teams better respond to copyleft compliance, we are recommending that companies create a "Copyleft Compliance Incident Response Team" (CCIRT). An area that often falls in between the cracks of engineering, support, and legal teams; a dedicated team responsible for handling the obligations of copyleft compliance will help both end users contact and get the source they are entitled to, and help companies be streamlined in handling licensing and distribution of their copyleft products. You can read more about our suggestions here:

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2024/feb/03/ccirt-security-and-software-right-to-repair/

As you may have seen at @fosdem this past weekend, we announced a new community tool for fixing GPL compliance issues: Use The Source. We encourage people to upload, share, and comment on source code candidates for products which run copylefted software so we can find out which products (and companies) give us the required software right to repair, and which ones still need work. Join us and help improve things for everyone!

https://sfconservancy.org/news/2024/feb/03/use-the-source-launched/

Announcing "Use The Source" https://sfconservancy.org/usethesource/

Use The Source is an elegant collaborative platform for users to catalog, find and test source code candidates for real products to verify their reproducibility and reinstallability. Users can discuss whether their device's software is repairable, so they know if the device can be fixed or updated, especially to fix security vulnerabilities or otherwise adapt it to their needs.

"Copyleft licenses are primarily about your rights, as a downstream user who wants to modify/recompile/reinstall your software, not about the “rights” of copyright holder.

You are a third-party beneficiary of the licensing terms."

"Copyleft is quixotic, copyleft is rebellion."

"The history of copyleft as an activist strategy can only be understood through the lens of 20 years of cooption of FOSS into mainstream tech."

Ready for our Policy Fellow and Hacker in Residence Bradley M. Kuhn's main track talk titled "Copyleft and the GPL: Finding the Path Forward to Defend our Software Right to Repair"!

Happy first day of #FOSDEM! You can come see us in K building level 2. And don't miss the @outreachy keynote starting in 15 minutes on the main track!

With your help we achieved our record $161,729 match fund in time! 🥳 🎉 That's $325,400 to support the work we do to for software rights and digital freedom. Thank you all!

Only $358 left... so close to the finish line. *YOU* could be the one to tip us over the line and make our match 🥳 Thank you all so much for making our work possible, we couldn't do it without you!!

https://sfconservancy.org/donate/

#SFCdrive

Less than $5,000 to go, we're so close to completing our match. Just a few hours left to get your donation doubled 🤩 to support software freedom. Any amount helps, so if it's within your means, please consider donating today!

https://sfconservancy.org/donate/

$5,883 left to match! All donations for the rest of the day are doubled. And if you become a Sustainer, you'll receive our limited edition 2024 tshirt designed by @niktrip

You can proudly represent your support for software freedom for all of 2024!!

https://sfconservancy.org/sustainer/

We've got just $6,759 left to go! Time to dig into the couch cushions, cup holders and CD-ROM drives for change. Every dollar helps immensely and we're so close to our goal!

https://sfconservancy.org/donate/

#SFCdrive

You can read an interview with one of our matching funders here, Eli (and Oliver the baby born during FOSSY!) Voigt: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2024/jan/15/supporter-interview-with-elij-and-oliver/

The real perk is the cute picture of Oliver 🥰

#SFCdrive https://sfconservancy.org/donate/

We've only got $15,000 left to get matched in our fundraiser. Now is the time to squeeze your last minute donations in to have them doubled!

You can follow our microblogging drive and contribute your own memories and aspirations for @conservancy using #SFCdrive

Thanks to @sjvn for highlighting our Executive Director @karen's story. It's important to remember how technology policy directly affects our lives and why free software is an important right for everyone!
https://theregister.com/2024/01/12/column/

There's $18,000 left of match funds, be sure to donate before January 15th to get your donation doubled! We rely on individuals like you to hold corporations accountable to our digital rights and freedoms. You can sign up to sustain our work all year here: https://sfconservancy.org/sustainer/#annual

@outreachy 2023 was an incredible year; from celebrating the 1000th intern, to hiring a new staff member, attending so many meetups and conferences, see how they are leading by example:
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2024/jan/11/outreachy-2023-year-in-review/

5 days left to get your donation doubled! If you become a Sustainer you can help us meet our match goal with just $22,000 left and get a super cool tshirt designed by @niktrip

https://sfconservancy.org/sustainer/

You've got a little more than a week to get your donation doubled during our fundraiser. Help us close the last gap $30,000 gap so we can meet our goal!

Become a Sustainer to support our critical copyleft compliance and enforcement efforts: https://sfconservancy.org/sustainer/#annual