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Bradley Kuhn (bkuhn) - 7 years ago 2016-11-22 17:27:36
bkuhn@ebb.org
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@@ -355,25 +355,25 @@ them without you.</strong> Last year you helped us to fundraising goals so that
 
we cannot afford even one staff member and basic overhead with the revenue we
 
take in from our projects.  With over 1000 supporters, we can now sustain the basic
 
work and we will survive.  But to thrive, and handle the really complex tasks like
 
copyright and licensing advice, and license compliance, we need even more
 
resources.  That's why our final target is 2,500 Supporters.  If you use
 
or care about our <a href="/members/current/">member projects</a>, which
 
include some of the most widely used free software, you can help them all
 
by <a href="#donate-box" class="donate-now">signing up as a Supporter
 
today</a>.</p>
 

	
 
<h4>Fighting for the GPL</h4>
 

	
 
<a href="/img/gpl-heart.png"><img class="appeal-right"  src="/img/gpl-heart.png"/></a>
 
<a href="/img/gpl-heart.png" alt="We ♥ GPL"><img class="appeal-right"  src="/img/gpl-heart.png"/></a>
 

	
 
<p>Many consider our GPL compliance and enforcement controversial.   We don't
 
think it is:  we stand up for the GPL at the request of our member projects, 
 
the Debian community, and members of the Linux kernel community. 
 
Most recently, that has resulted in our funding
 
of the <a href="/news/2015/mar/05/vmware-lawsuit/">suit
 
against VMware</a>, which is the first lawsuit on derivative works and the
 
GPL (Christoph's case <a href="/news/2016/aug/09/vmware-appeal/">continues on appeal</a>). While this work is extremely important to the continued long-term
 
success of software freedom and copyleft not to mention in the long term 
 
interest of the industry as a whole, it makes fundraising from companies
 
very difficult.  Some companies 
 
have withdrawn from funding us and some have even successfully pressured 
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@@ -409,21 +409,20 @@ compatible with shifting corporate strategies.  We need you, the public as
 
well.  Simply put, we need 2,500 Supporters in order to maintain our staff, 
 
continue to provide a full range of administrative, bookkeeping, and legal
 
services to our member projects, educate the public, <b>and</b> 
 
undertake compliance efforts.  We hope you will <a href="#donate-box" class="donate-now">sign up as a Supporter</a> to help us achieve this. If we don't reach our goal, we will 
 
have no choice but to hibernate some of our activities &mdash; likely 
 
our compliance efforts &mdash; until we have the resources to resume them
 
properly at some point in the future.</p>
 

	
 
<p>If you care about Conservancy's mission, <a href="#donate-box" 
 
class="donate-now">help us meet our goal</a> so we can stand up for software
 
freedom together.</p>
 

	
 
<img class="appeal-footer" alt="*" src="/img/conservancy-supporter-heart.png"/>
 

	
 
<img class="appeal-footer" alt="Supporters ♥ Conservancy" src="/img/conservancy-supporter-heart.png"/>
 

	
 
<p>Please <a href="#donate-box" class="donate-now">join our Supporter program</a> 
 
and spread the word!</p>
 

	
 
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