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.
SFC calls on you to Exit Zoom
After the recent change of the terms of service to Zoom, Software Freedom Conservancy seeks to bring light to corporate abuse of power and focus on making FOSS solutions to these proprietary requirements.
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FOSSY videos are out!
September 14, 2023
The recordings from FOSSY are now up! You can check them out on the Internet Archive. We have over 100 talks from 19 tracks, from speakers coming from over 12 countries. It was such an incredible first year conference and we're so happy to share the presentations with you. We'll be highlighting specific talks over the comings days, so be on the lookout on our social media.
We Call on FOSS Contributors to “Exit Zoom”
August 15, 2023
One week till FOSSY in Portland, Oregon
July 6, 2023
FOSSY schedule announcement
June 19, 2023
Articles
Software Freedom & Trademarks: Examining Rust's New Policy through the Lens of FOSS History
by on July 27, 2023
RHEL Panel Discussion at FOSSY 2023
by on July 19, 2023
Term of the week
proprietary relicensing
Proprietary relicensing is a toxic business model whereby a company distributes software under a copyleft licenses, but refuses to agree to the copyleft license themselves (by collecting rights to issue proprietary, non-FOSS licenses for the software separately).
