Conservancy News

Conservancy Applauds Linux Community's Promotion of Principled Copyleft Enforcement

October 16, 2017

Software Freedom Conservancy congratulates the Linux community for taking steps today to promote principled, community-minded copyleft enforcement by publishing the Linux Kernel Enforcement Statement. The Statement includes an additional permission under Linux's license, the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 (GPLv2). The additional permission, to which copyright holders may voluntarily opt-in, changes the license of their copyrights to allow reliance on the copyright license termination provisions from the GNU General Public License version 3 (GPLv3) for some cases

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Software Freedom Conservancy Announces North Bay Python Conference

August 16, 2017

Conservancy Welcomes Etherpad as a Member Project, Launches Etherpad Instance

July 20, 2017

Conservancy Highlight: Tony Sebro, Our Award-Winning General Counsel

June 29, 2017

Teaching Open Source Joins Conservancy

June 15, 2017

coreboot Joins Conservancy as a Member Project

June 1, 2017