Conservancy accomplishes these goals with various initiatives, including

  defending and upholding the rights of software users and consumers under

  copyleft licenses, such as the GPL.</p>

<p>Free and open source software (FOSS) is everywhere and in everything; yet

our software freedom is constantly eroded.  With the help of its

volunteers, <a href="/members/current/">member projects</a>,

and <a href="/about/staff/">staff</a>, Conservancy stands up for users'

software freedom via its copyleft compliance work.</p>

<p>Conservancy's primary work in copyleft compliance currently focuses on

our <a href="/copyleft-compliance/enforcement-strategy.html">Strategic GPL

represents the culmination of nearly 15 years of compliance work of

Conservancy spanning ten different fiscally sponsored projects, past lawsuits

against more than a dozen defendants, and hundreds of non-litigation

compliance actions.</p>

<p>For these many years, Conservancy has always given the benefit of the

  doubt to companies who exploited our good nature and ultimately simply

  ignore the rights of users and consumers.  In that time, the compliance

  industrial complex has risen to a multi-million-dollar industry —

  selling (mostly proprietary) products, services, and consulting to

  companies.  Yet, these compliance efforts ignore consistently the most

  essential promise of copyleft — the complete, Corresponding Source