Software Freedom Conservancy
Software Freedom Conservancy is a not-for-profit charity that helps promote, improve, develop, and defend Free, Libre, and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects. Conservancy provides a non-profit home and infrastructure for FLOSS projects. This allows FLOSS developers to focus on what they do best — writing and improving FLOSS for the general public — while Conservancy takes care of the projects' needs that do not relate directly to software development and documentation.
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Conservancy's Executive Director to Keynote AI Law & Ethics Conference
Karen Sandler To Explain the Ethical Implications of AI Without Software Freedom
March 23, 2021
This Friday 26 March 2021, Karen M. Sandler, President & Executive Director of the Software Freedom Conservancy, will keynote the second day of the Leuven AI Law & Ethics Conference (LAILEC) 2021. Karen's keynote will cover key issues about the ethics and morality of a world increasingly controlled by AI algorithms and software embedded in our bodies.
Conservancy Blog
On the Recent Announcement by FSF's Board of Directors
by on March 23, 2021
In response to Sunday's announcement by the Free Software Foundation, we ceased our few remaining activities that intersect directly with the FSF.
The Online Conference Has Been Liberated
by on February 8, 2021
Organizers' Panel from Legal & Policy DevRoom 2021
This weekend, the largest international FOSS conference in the world, FOSDEM, attempted, and succeeded, to achieve what we all thought was not yet possible: They ran a massive online conference event with 100% FOSS.
On Elastic, its fork, MongoDB, and the SS Public License
by on January 29, 2021
Folks have been asking us if Conservancy's view on the SS Public License has changed in light of Elastic's recent license change. It hasn't. We have only a brief statement to add to our existing comments on this.
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