John Deere's ongoing GPL violations: What's next
I grew up on a farm. My parents worked hard to grow crops and manage the farm business. My parents also found additional jobs to make ends meet. As farmers have done for millennia, my family used tools...
View ArticleA Comprehensive Analysis of the GPL Issues With the Red Hat Enterprise Linux...
For approximately twenty years, Red Hat has experimented with building the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) business model. Namely, Red Hat strives to create an operating system deployment and...
View ArticleRHEL Panel Discussion at FOSSY 2023
At FOSSY 2023, there was a panel discusison about the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) issueDownload the talk video or watch on YouTube
View ArticleSoftware Freedom & Trademarks: Examining Rust's New Policy through the Lens...
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...
View ArticleHow I watched a Motion for Summary Judgment hearing
In SFC's ongoing [lawsuit against Vizio asking to receive the source code for the copylefted components on their TVs](https://sfconservancy.org/vizio), last week we had a hearing with the judge to...
View ArticleSourceware thanks Conservancy for their support and urges the community to...
Sourceware is a Free Software hosting project for core toolchain and developer tools. Projects like Cygwin, a UNIX API for Win32 systems, the GNU Toolchain, including GCC, the GNU Compiler Colection,...
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A Note from Our Executive Director: 2023 and my personal quest for software...
Just when I think that I've really grokked the implications of the technology I have woven into my life, I find that life throws completely new challenges my way that make me realize the extent of the...
View ArticleIs Tesla open source? Roadster certainly isn't...
There appears to be some debate over whether a certain billionaire said on November 22 that "Tesla Roadster is now fully open source", or maybe that "All design & engineering of the original @Tesla...
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Supporter Interview with Elijah (and Oliver!) Voigt
CC-BY-NA 4.0 Lucy VoigtThanks so much to one of our matching supporters, The Voigt Family! We're so happy to highlight a young family involved in free software and hear from about what they think about...
View ArticleWithout software right to repair, your devices are not secure
Once upon a time, you bought a baby monitor so you could see how your child was doing without disturbing them. You heard about a critical security vulnerability in Linux and asked a friend with some...
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