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Conservancy Blog Archive: 2026

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

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

Some Unfortunate Delays in our Struggle for Copyleft Justice

by Bradley M. Kühn on January 26, 2026

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