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.
Sandler Receives Honorary Doctorate
KU Leuven awarded our Executive Director, Karen M. Sandler, an honorary doctorate in February!
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FOSSY schedule announcement
June 19, 2023
The FOSSY schedule has been set! With four days of talks and workshops, we are looking forward to a fantastic conference. Thanks to all our incredible track organizers and speakers for working with us to create a jam packed weekend of FOSS. We look forward to building this conference with you all in Portland, OR this July 13-16th.
FOSSY CFP is open - submit your talks and buy your ticket!
April 24, 2023
SFC's Policy Fellow Files Expert Report in Neo4j v. PureThink
February 9, 2023
Articles
John Deere's ongoing GPL violations: What's next
by on March 16, 2023
Call for Community-Led Tracks at FOSSY
by on January 31, 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).
