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.
Vizio Lawsuit
Software Freedom Conservancy files right-to-repair lawsuit against California TV manufacturer Vizio Inc. for alleged GPL violations
More informationSoftware Freedom Conservancy's DMCA Exemption Requests Granted
Software Freedom Conservancy recently announced that its efforts to stand up for the rights of FOSS developers have been successful and that it has been granted almost all of the exemptions that it requested in the Librarian of Congress' recent rule making. Read more…
News
Software Freedom Conservancy donors challenged with largest match yet
November 23, 2021
Software Freedom Conservancy's DMCA Exemption Requests Granted for Alternate Router Firmware, Copyleft Compliance Investigation and More
October 28, 2021
Software Freedom Conservancy files lawsuit against California TV manufacturer Vizio Inc. for GPL violations
October 19, 2021
Articles
First Update on the Vizio lawsuit
by on November 30, 2021
Trump's Social Media Platform and the Affero General Public License (of Mastodon)
by on October 21, 2021
How We Hired Our Last Employee: Equitable Hiring Processes for Small (and Large) Organizations
by on October 15, 2021
“…Anyone???”
by on August 24, 2021
“Tivoization” and Your Right to Install Under Copyleft
by on July 23, 2021
Term of the week
Complete Corresponding Source (CCS)
Informally, CCS is all of the technical materials and source code required to modify, run, and/or reinstall the software. The GPL and LGPL have a formal definitions for CCS, which is sometimes called "Corresponding Source."
