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.

Give Up GitHub!

Today is an excellent day to give up GitHub, particularly given their disingenuous position regarding the California Artificial Intelligence Transparency Act & its proposed amendments under CA SB 1000.

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FOSSY 2027 Dates

University of British Columbia - August 5-8th

August 31, 2026

Returning to the University of British Columbia, FOSSY 2027 will be August 5-8th next year! The campus was enjoyed by all attendees and allowed us to connect with the local student and staff communities. Being close to the coast, mountains, and city allowed conference goers to explore the locality and even get to know the local free software community!

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Freedom for Hacking!!1

August 27, 2026

Articles

My Introductory Comments for Mark Wielaard's 2026 Distinguished Service Award in Software Freedom

by Bradley M. Kühn on August 12, 2026


GitHub & other LLM-gen-AI Companies Urge You to Misdirect California Legislature on FOSS Licensing!

by Bradley M. Kühn on July 3, 2026


Ethical and Moral Considerations in Proprietary Software Usage

by Bradley M. Kühn on June 2, 2026


Dealing with Incomplete Copyleft Source That Doesn't Correspond

by Bradley M. Kühn on May 17, 2026


AGPLv3§7¶4 Empowers Users to Thwart Badgeware

by Bradley M. Kühn on April 16, 2026

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