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.</p>

<p id="dmca-exemptions">This year, we filed more DMCA exemption requests than any organization in

  the country —

  and <a href="/news/2021/oct/28/2021-DMCA-final-exemptions-win/">we won on

  every single one</a>.  We clarified the right to jailbreak of routers (an

  essential activity of our <a href="https://openwrt.org">OpenWrt

  project</a>), 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, <a href="https://www.copyright.gov/1201/2021/hearing-transcripts/210407-Section-1201-Public-Hearing-Class-15-7a-7b.pdf#page=13">testified</a> 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 &mdash; one bit at a time.</p>

</div>

<h3 id="Highlights">Highlights from some of our projects</h3>

<div data-read-more="Read more about our projects&hellip;">

  <p>Software Freedom Conservancy helped our projects engage in critical work

  go <em>directly</em> to fund <acronym title="Free and Open Source Software">FOSS</acronym>

  contributors.  We do the arduous work to sustain these FOSS communities:</p>

<p>We helped <b>Outreachy</b> expand to its largest cohorts ever. Our last

round accepted 71 interns, and we announced this week that the current round

 will have 62! (That's 133 interns &mdash; an <strong>27% growth</strong> from the previous two

rounds!) We're grateful to be able support Outreachy to serve more

communities who are committed to helping to push back against systemic

underrepresentation in technology and software.</p>

<p><b>Godot</b> has continued to push the boundary of what anyone thought was

  possible with an open source game engine.  Godot's impressive team, funded

  through contracts with Software Freedom Conservancy, continues to building

  their community and their excellent codebase.  We are so proud of their beneficial

  <a href="https://godotengine.org/community">focus on community</a>.  Watch

  their fun, exciting,

  and <a href="https://godotengine.org/article/announcing-2021-godot-games-showreel">brand

  new showreel</a> to see what these cutting edge creators are making.</p>

<p>Software Freedom Conservancy also proudly supports, with direct funding of

  contributors, the <b>Reproducible Builds</b> team.  They ensure the

  security of computer systems of all shapes and sizes around the world.

  This necessary and vital project becomes even more essential in the age of

  direct attacks on technological