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Merge in various HTML fixes from Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com> on 2013-02-21.
This did not fast-forward merge because I'd made changes to those files since
Martin submitted his merge request. This merge brings in the changes
contributed in the following two commits from Martin:
commit 8b54927bb51833156a75354090c6ff7dd8794bc8
Author: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
Date: 2013-02-21 21:47:15 +0000
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commit 660c48a528baf4e09bb7cc3ccd30afd7bf46072d
Author: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
Date: 2013-02-21 21:46:40 +0000
Fix various HTML syntax errors
This did not fast-forward merge because I'd made changes to those files since
Martin submitted his merge request. This merge brings in the changes
contributed in the following two commits from Martin:
commit 8b54927bb51833156a75354090c6ff7dd8794bc8
Author: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
Date: 2013-02-21 21:47:15 +0000
Remove stray character
commit 660c48a528baf4e09bb7cc3ccd30afd7bf46072d
Author: Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>
Date: 2013-02-21 21:46:40 +0000
Fix various HTML syntax errors
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{% block subtitle %}Overview - {% endblock %}
{% block category %}overview{% endblock %}
{% block content %}
<h1>Overview</h1>
<p>Software Freedom Conservancy is a not-for-profit organization 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.</p>
<p>FLOSS projects whose <a href="/members/apply">applications are
accepted</a> become part of the Software Freedom Conservancy
(akin to a separate department of a large agency). Once joined, the
<a href="/members">“member project”</a> receives most of
the benefits of existing as a non-profit corporate entity without
engaging in the arduous work of forming a separate, new organization.
Conservancy aggregates the work of running a FLOSS non-profit
for <a href="/members/current/">its many members</a>.</p>
<p>Conservancy provides <a href="/members/services/">many important services</a> for its
member projects. Member projects can take directed donations, which
allows donors to earmark their donations for the benefit of a specific
FLOSS project. Conservancy provides fiscal oversight to ensure that
these funds are spent in a manner that advances the project and fits
with Conservancy's 501(c)(3) mission to promote, advance, and defend software freedom.</p>
<p>If the member project's leaders want, Conservancy can also hold other
assets and titles on behalf of the projects, such as copyrights,
trademarks, domain names, online hosting accounts, and title and ownership
of physical hardware. Also at discretion of the project's leaders,
Conservancy can assist in defending the rights represented in these
assets. For example, Conservancy is available to assist member projects
in enforcing the terms of the projects' FLOSS license.</p>
<p>Finally, developers of Conservancy's member projects, when operating in
their capacity as project leaders, could receive some protection from personal
liability for their work on the project.</p>
<p>For further reading on the benefits of Conservancy, a full and detailed <a href="/members/services/">list of Conservancy's
services for its member projects</a> and a <a href="/members/current/">a
list of Conservancy's current member projects</a> are available.</p>
<p>Conservancy and
its <a href="/about/board">directors</a>, <a href="/about/officers">officers</a>,
and <a href="/about/staff">staff</a> believe strongly in the principles
of software freedom, and believe that all users should have the right to
study, improve and share their software. Conservancy helps protect,
enable, coordinate, facilitate and defend the public's right to copy,
share, modify and redistribute FLOSS both non-commercially and
commercially. Finally, like most organizations devoted to FLOSS,
Conservancy opposes the notion of patents that cover software, and urges
contributors to its member projects not to apply for patents.</p>
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