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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We Call on FOSS Contributors to “Exit Zoom”
SFC Announces Program to Help FOSS Enthusiasts Adopt Zoom Alternatives
August 15, 2023
Software Freedom Conservancy stands with concerned users and consumers; we too face difficult choices with respect to software rights and freedom. As part of our ongoing advocacy work, we educate and help people to choose more Free and Open Source Software (“FOSS”), and we aid developers to create and improve FOSS options for the general public. We also strive to “meet people where they are.”
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
A Comprehensive Analysis of the GPL Issues With the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) Business Model
by on June 23, 2023
John Deere's ongoing GPL violations: What's next
by on March 16, 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).
