Software Freedom Conservancy

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.

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SFC Responds to the European Commission's Request for Feedback on European Digital Ecosystems

February 4, 2026

After a very successful FOSDEM, our team is already back at work! The European Commission published a Call for Evidence, asking for comments on how to help better their understanding to grow and further develop the European Union's Free and Open Source Software sector. Software Freedom Conservancy filed comments adding our unique perspective on digital sovereignty and ethical technology, focusing on our expertise on copyleft and our insight into US-based FOSS contribution. So that we were not reiterating points that were well made by many filers already, we also referred the Commission to the comments submitted by the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE).