Announcing FOSSY, July 13-16 in Portland Oregon!
Software Freedom Conservancy is announcing our first ever Free and Open Source Software Yearly Conference (FOSSY)! Free and Open Source Software is back at the ...
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Denver Gingerich Appointed SFC’s first Director of Compliance
Today Software Freedom Conservancy announces that as part of its ongoing efforts to achieve widespread GPL compliance across the tech industry, SFC promotes Den...
Stockfish: Chess GPLv3 Violation Lawsuit Settles
Stockfish, a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) chess engine, has announced the settlement of their lawsuit against ChessBase GmbH regarding violations of Sto...
$104,759 pledged for software freedom!
We're pleased to announce an ambitious match challenge for this fundraising season.
Outreachy employee Omotola wins award
We could not be more proud of Omotola Omotayo, Outreachy's Community Manager, for winning the She Code Africa Amazon 2022 award at the She Code Africa Summit in...
On the filing of the Class Action Law Suit over GitHub’s Copilot
Many of you are inquiring about a lawsuit filed yesterday afternoon by two “J Doe” Plaintiffs regarding the serious and ongoing GitHub Copilot probl...
Announcing Godot’s Graduation from SFC!
Today we congratulate the Godot project on their graduation from Software Freedom Conservancy! The Godot Game Engine joined Software Freedom Conservancy in 201...
Fedora changes the classification of Creative Commons License Zero (CC0)
04.08.2022 by Florian Idelberger The Fedora Project announced that it changed its classification of CC0 for use in program source code. Free- and Open-Sourc...
The Institute for Computing in Research announces 6 students to inaugural Austin cohort
Starting this past Monday in Austin, TX, The Institute for Computing in Research will host 6 local high school students for research internships in the fields o...
Permission to Sell FOSS in the Microsoft App Store Restored
Software Freedom Conservancy congratulates Microsoft for changing the terms of their app store to again allow commercial distribution of Free and Open Source So...