Software Freedom Conservancy is a nonprofit organization centered around ethical technology. Our mission is to ensure the right to repair, improve and reinstall software. We promote and defend these rights through fostering free and open source software (FOSS) projects, driving initiatives that actively make technology more inclusive, and advancing policy strategies that defend FOSS (such as copyleft). Learn more.
Use The Source!
SFC recently launched a new software right to repair tool, which lets you submit and comment on source candidates that device manufacturers are required to give you. With your help, we can find and improve the source candidates for your devices, so you can fix, modify, and improve your devices as their software authors intended! Check it out!
News
Save the date for FOSSY 2025!
Submit track proposals now
October 17, 2024
A view towards the Smith Memorial Student Union, copyright Karen Sandler, CC-BY 3.0
Mark you calendars - FOSSY will return July 31 to August 3, 2025! The next iteration of FOSSY will once again take place at the Portland State University Smith Memorial Student Union.
FOSSY 2024 CFP announcement
May 23, 2024
Use the Source! A Revolution in Grassroots Software Right to Repair
February 3, 2024
Articles
Excitement for GPL enforcement at Linux Plumbers
by on October 3, 2024
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amicus curiae
“Amicus curiae” literally means “friend of the court” and is what you call someone who isn’t a party to the case but,because of their strong interest or expertise in the subject matter of the case, has information or argument that the court would find useful in reaching a decision.
