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Resisting Badgeware!

Read our policy fellow (Bradley Kühn)'s new blog post about Nextcloud's Euro-Office fork of Onlyoffice. His post explains why the fork is absolutely permitted by the AGPLv3§7¶4.

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Submit your #FOSSY26 talk proposals by May 22

April 23, 2026

The fourth edition of FOSSY -- the Free and Open Source Software Yearly conference -- will be here before you know it. It's happening August 6th-9th in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

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Articles

AGPLv3§7¶4 Empowers Users to Thwart Badgeware

by Bradley M. Kühn on April 16, 2026


Eternal November — this new influx of users may be better than the last one

by Denver Gingerich on April 15, 2026


What the FCC router ban means for FOSS

by Denver Gingerich on April 2, 2026


SCOTUS Declines to Hear LLM-Backed AI Case Regarding Copyright

by Bradley M. Kühn on March 4, 2026


Interview with Tracy Homer about Software Freedom and Maker Spaces

by Daniel Takamori on January 26, 2026

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