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Software Freedom Conservancy (conservancy@social.sfconservancy.org)'s status on Saturday, 26-Oct-2024 16:39:14 JST Software Freedom Conservancy

SFC releases an aspirational statement on generative AI for programming. We highlight the need for respecting user freedom, for reproducibility, and guaranteeing that such systems are truly Free and Open Source Software (FOSS):

https://sfconservancy.org/news/2024/oct/25/aspirational-on-llm-generative-ai-programming/
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1. SFC Announces Aspirational Statement on LLM-backed generative AI for Programming
  
  In 2022, Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) convened a committee in the wake of Microsoft's GitHub Copilot announcement, to meet and begin considering the complex questions that arise from the use of large language models (LLMs) in generative AI systems that seek to assist software developers.Today, we announce a joint statement by this committee, entitled Machine-Learning-Assisted Programming that Respects User Freedom.
Software Freedom Conservancy (conservancy@social.sfconservancy.org)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jan-2024 07:22:40 JST Software Freedom Conservancy

The state court judge rejected Vizio's arguments. The decision says SFC's claim is not preempted by copyright law and that consumers like us have standing to enforce the #GPL as third-party beneficiaries to the GPL! Now on to our Summary Adjudication movement...

https://sfconservancy.org/news/2023/dec/11/response-to-bigtech-arguments-copyright-office/
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1. SFC Responds to Big Tech's Disengenous Arguments in Copyright Office's “Artificial Intelligence Study”
  
  After filing our initial comments in the Copyright Office's request for comments, SFC staff have remained engaged in the process — we've given particular attention to comments related to software freedom and rights as assured through copyleft licenses like the GPL. We advocate for your software rights and freedoms in many ways — including participation on public policy discussion of relevant issues, such as this Copyright Office study.
Software Freedom Conservancy (conservancy@social.sfconservancy.org)'s status on Thursday, 17-Aug-2023 01:27:10 JST Software Freedom Conservancy

Our Director of Compliance discusses the Rust Foundation's (draft) trademark policy by looking at what we can learn from the sometimes too exciting history of software freedom trademark policies

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/jul/27/trademark-history-and-rust/
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1. Software Freedom & Trademarks: Examining Rust's New Policy through the Lens of FOSS History
  
  When it comes to the law, people working on software freedom are often most concerned about copyright and contract law (and the licenses we use under both), since these appear to most directly affect software freedom. How people can use, study, modify, and redistribute the software is naturally of paramount importance and these laws heavily affect those rights. Generally FOSS projects don't consider their brand as much as the software and community being built, and so other fields of law, like trademark, get less consideration.
Software Freedom Conservancy (conservancy@social.sfconservancy.org)'s status on Wednesday, 16-Aug-2023 12:21:16 JST Software Freedom Conservancy

We Call on FOSS Contributors 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.
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2023/aug/15/exit-zoom/
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1. We Call on FOSS Contributors to “Exit Zoom”
  
  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.”
Software Freedom Conservancy (conservancy@social.sfconservancy.org)'s status on Thursday, 16-Mar-2023 02:18:35 JST Software Freedom Conservancy

The Community Call for Tracks for our new conference FOSSY ends this Sunday March 19th. Be sure to submit before midnight and be on the look out in the coming weeks for which tracks we've selected!
https://sfconservancy.org/fossy/community-tracks/
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  Software Freedom Conservancy
  
  The Software Freedom Conservancy provides a non-profit home and services to Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects.
Software Freedom Conservancy (conservancy@social.sfconservancy.org)'s status on Saturday, 11-Mar-2023 08:13:55 JST Software Freedom Conservancy

And don't miss Bradley M Kuhn's talk tomorrow at 13:30 in Ballroom F: "Learning From the Big Failures To Improve FOSS Advocacy and Adoption"
https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x/presentations/learning-big-failures-improve-foss-advocacy-and-adoption
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1. Learning From the Big Failures To Improve FOSS Advocacy and Adoption | SCALE 20x
Software Freedom Conservancy (conservancy@social.sfconservancy.org)'s status on Wednesday, 15-Feb-2023 03:52:53 JST Software Freedom Conservancy
- Karen Sandler
- Free Software Foundation Europe
To celebrate "I love software freedom" day, listen to our Executive Director @karen talk with Bonnie Mehring from @fsfe about reaching younger people in our advocacy and the rise in awareness of software freedom for medical devices
https://fsfe.org/news/podcast/episode-19.en.html
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1. SFP#19: Why we need Free Software on medical devices with Karen Sandler - FSFE
  
  For this episode Bonnie Mehring met with Karen Sandler to talk about her relationship with Free Software. Karen depends on a medical device to keep her hea...
Software Freedom Conservancy (conservancy@social.sfconservancy.org)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Feb-2023 06:47:35 JST Software Freedom Conservancy
- socallinuxexpo
We'll be at @socallinuxexpo in Pasadena, March 9-12th! Policy Fellow Bradley M. Kuhn is presenting "Learning From the Big Failures To Improve FOSS Advocacy and Adoption".
If you'd like to volunteer to at our booth or interested in attending, please email info@sfconservancy.org

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Software Freedom Conservancy (conservancy@social.sfconservancy.org)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Feb-2023 09:09:49 JST Software Freedom Conservancy

Today we are officially opening our call for track proposals for our first annual conference FOSSY! We are looking for community driven tracks that can balance important and in depth technical and non-technical issues, while uplifting contributors of all experiences. If you are interested in hosting a track, please see our guidelines and expectations and don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions! You can reach us at conference@sfconservancy.org

https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2023/jan/31/fossy-call-for-tracks/

https://sfconservancy.org/fossy/community-tracks/
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1. Call for Community-Led Tracks at FOSSY
  
  Today Software Freedom Conservancy is officially opening our call for track proposals for our first annual FOSSY conference! We will be holding the conference in Portland, Oregon July 13-16, 2023 at the Oregon Convention Center. We are looking for community driven tracks that can balance important and in depth technical and non-technical issues, while uplifting contributors of all experiences. Tracks will be modeled after the DevRooms at FOSDEM and the miniconfs at linux.conf.au. They may be between 1 and 4 days, and the organizers of the tracks will be in charge of outreach, calls for submissions, communicating with potential speakers in the track, determining the schedule and hosting the track in person at FOSSY.
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  Software Freedom Conservancy
  
  The Software Freedom Conservancy provides a non-profit home and services to Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects.
Software Freedom Conservancy (conservancy@social.sfconservancy.org)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Feb-2023 04:16:29 JST Software Freedom Conservancy

As the class action lawsuit brought by Matthew Butterick against GitHub, Microsoft and OpenAI continues, we want to reiterate our Principles of Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/principles.html In our opinion, Copilot undermines copyleft licensing and makes egregious license violations easier than ever. Rather than primarily seeking financial compensation, we would hope this case strengthens the legal precedent for protecting users under copyleft principles.
See our previous writings on the case: https://sfconservancy.org/news/2022/nov/04/class-action-lawsuit-filing-copilot/
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  Copyleft Compliance Projects - Software Freedom Conservancy
  
  The Software Freedom Conservancy provides a non-profit home and services to Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects.
2. 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 problem which we have been working on for the last 18 months. This issue is dire and important, but includes many complex issues that intersect FOSS license compliance with moral questions of software freedom and the future of machine learning in human endeavor. Complex issues need careful, diligent, and community-oriented consideration and response.
Software Freedom Conservancy (conservancy@social.sfconservancy.org)'s status on Saturday, 31-Dec-2022 06:18:31 JST Software Freedom Conservancy

Good news + a new challenge: we met our fundraising match over 2 weeks early! And thanks to anonymous donors, we have extended the match by $12k! Please help us reach this stretch goal by 1/15 by donating or spreading the word. https://sfconservancy.org/sustainer/

US donors, tomorrow is the last day for tax deductible donations during this tax year!

And whether you contribute financially to SFC or give your time to #softwarefreedom, we so appreciate you and can't wait to work together in 2023!
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1. Support Conservancy!
  
  Software freedom is critical to many of today’s most pressing social issues, but it’s only effective when FOSS is for everyone. Support Conservancy today to help make that happen!

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