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Our Year in Review

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This past year we've all grown more conscious of our interconnected world and the importance of free software tools that empower us all. Closed source and proprietary tooling has taken over many communication channels while we work from home. Even conferences and lecture series dedicated to 'open source infrastructure' have been unable to escape the grasp of closed systems. We made it a priority to support those in our community that understand the crucial need for the need for a conferences run by free software and have been pleased to support free communication tools to assist with these efforts. Our commitment to using, developing, and supporting free software tools and communities has never been stronger.

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Over the past year we have taken on a lot of new work that wouldn't have been possible without your support. Our lawsuit against long time license violator Vizio is one of those projects. Software Freedom Conservancy continues to lead the field in standing up for license compliance and holding corporations accountable. This focus on consumer rights, in regards to software licensing, is a critical approach developed by our amazing policy and legal experts. We believe software freedom should be a tool that enables everyone to hold their technology and its providers accountable to the people who are impacted by it. Click here for more information.

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We also proud to share highlights of our work on the DMCA exceptions and clarification for jailbreaking of routers, investigation of license compliance and privacy-related research. Karen, our executive director also participated in getting an exemption for medical devices. We continue to push back against the extreme wealth and legal power that corporations and lobbyists assert over consumers. We work to fight this overreach one bit at a time.

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This past year we've all grown more conscious of our interconnected world. + These events escalate the importance of free software tools that empower + us all. Closed source and proprietary tools have overtaken many + communication channels — particularly when we work from home. Even + conferences and lecture series dedicated to “open source + infrastructure” have been unable to escape the grasp of these closed + systems. As we monitored these diffcult events, we prioritized support for + those in our community that understand the crucial need + for conferences run + solely with free software. We have been pleased to support free + communication tools to assist with these efforts. Our commitment to + using, developing, and supporting free software tools and communities has + never been stronger.

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Over the past year, we took on new work that would have + been impossible without your support. Last month, we filed + a lawsuit against long time license violator Vizio. + Through that lawsuit and many non-litigation ongoing license enforcement + actions, Software Freedom Conservancy leads the field: We stand up for + license compliance and holding corporation accountable when others + won't. Our focus in software licensing defends consumer rights. This novel and + critical approach to license compliance culminates years of effort by our amazing policy and legal experts. We + believe software freedom, when properly and actively upheld, enables everyone to hold + technology providers accountable to the people most + impacted by their actions.

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This year, we filed more DMCA exemption requests than any organization in + the country — + and we won on + every single one. We clarified the right to jailbreak of routers (an + essential activity of our OpenWrt + project), won a new right to safely investigate devices for license + compliance, and helped solidify privacy-related research. Karen (our + executive director) also participated with a coalition that achieved yet + another exemption for medical devices! Our lawyer, Pam Chestek, testified at the DMCA + hearings on these exemptions, and confronted industry lobbyists directly as + they sought to use their extreme + wealth and legal power to harm consumers. We stridently fight their overreach — one bit at a time.

Highlights from some of our member projects