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Bradley Kuhn (bkuhn) - 7 years ago 2016-11-22 16:56:17
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Remove https?://sfconservancy.org/ for this site.

This is for deployment on sfconservancy.org, and as such, nothing should
begin with http://sfconservancy.org/ https://sfconservancy.org/.

Brett did this change before committing the initial version of the 2016
appeal.

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 <li>We brought three new projects under the protection of Conservancy: <a href="https://forums.librehealth.io/">LibreHealth</a>, a critical initiative for health in free and open source software, <a href="https://www.spec-ops.io/">Spec-Ops</a>, a project dedicated to supporting the creation of open standards in critical areas, including payments and identity
 and <a href="http://brew.sh/">Homebrew</a>, a software package manager for Apple's OS X. </li>
 <li>We <a href="/news/2015/mar/05/vmware-lawsuit/">supported
 the lawsuit</a> Christoph Hellwig brought against VMware in Germany, the
-first case on derivative works and the GPL. Christoph's case <a href="http://sfconservancy.org/news/2016/aug/09/vmware-appeal/">continues on appeal</a>.</li>
 first case on derivative works and the GPL. Christoph's case <a href="/news/2016/aug/09/vmware-appeal/">continues on appeal</a>.</li>
 <li>We helped Conservancy projects Bro, Buildbot, and Godot receive Mozilla MOSS grants. Another Conservancy project, phpMyAdmin successfully completed a thorough security audit as part of Mozilla's Secure Open Source Fund (no serious issues were found!)</li>
 <li>We <a href="/news/2016/may/10/yorba-assigns-copyrights/">received an assignment of copyrights from the Yorba Foundation</a>, including Shotwell and Geary, in order to safeguard those copyrights for the future</li>
 <li>We conducted friendly discussions with companies out of compliance with
-the GPL, seeking non-litigious resolutions in accordance with our <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/principles.html">Principles</a>. We <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2016/nov/03/linux-compliance-agreements/">published our template agreements</a> and also held two <a href="https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/706361/a9ca4ee12c04d5d7/">feedback</a> <a href="/blog/2016/oct/27/feedback-gpl/"> sessions</a> to evaluate and improve our compliance efforts. We also worked with other community members to <a href="/blog/2016/jul/19/patrick-mchardy-gpl-enforcement/">bring clarity to international activities around GPL compliance</a> and help make the ecosystem safer for free software adoption. We stayed committed to providing <a href="/blog/2016/feb/25/zfs-and-linux/">straight-forward analysis about the GPL</a>.</li>
 the GPL, seeking non-litigious resolutions in accordance with our <a href="/copyleft-compliance/principles.html">Principles</a>. We <a href="/news/2016/nov/03/linux-compliance-agreements/">published our template agreements</a> and also held two <a href="https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/706361/a9ca4ee12c04d5d7/">feedback</a> <a href="/blog/2016/oct/27/feedback-gpl/"> sessions</a> to evaluate and improve our compliance efforts. We also worked with other community members to <a href="/blog/2016/jul/19/patrick-mchardy-gpl-enforcement/">bring clarity to international activities around GPL compliance</a> and help make the ecosystem safer for free software adoption. We stayed committed to providing <a href="/blog/2016/feb/25/zfs-and-linux/">straight-forward analysis about the GPL</a>.</li>
-<li>Our Executive Director, Karen Sandler, <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2016/feb/23/FOSSA-testimony/">testified to the New York City Council Committee on Contracts in favor of the Free and Open Source Software Act and the Civic Commons Act</a> which would increase the use of free and open source software by New York City departments and agencies. Karen later in the year also <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2016/oct/26/karen-sandler-oscon-eu-2016/">taught kids in London about free software</a>.</li>
+<li>Our Executive Director, Karen Sandler, <a href="/news/2016/feb/23/FOSSA-testimony/">testified to the New York City Council Committee on Contracts in favor of the Free and Open Source Software Act and the Civic Commons Act</a> which would increase the use of free and open source software by New York City departments and agencies. Karen later in the year also <a href="/news/2016/oct/26/karen-sandler-oscon-eu-2016/">taught kids in London about free software</a>.</li>
-<li>We <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2016/aug/04/everything-is-negotiable/">launched a new initiative called ContractPatch</a> to help provide information and understanding about employment agreements.</li>
 <li>We <a href="/blog/2016/aug/04/everything-is-negotiable/">launched a new initiative called ContractPatch</a> to help provide information and understanding about employment agreements.</li>
-<li>We <a href="http://sfconservancy.org/blog/2016/jun/06/openchain-spec/">commented on the OpenChain specification</a> to help make sure that the initiative by companies to collaboratively come up with standards and shared materials around compliance also meets community expectations about how compliance obligations are satisfied.</li>
 <li>We <a href="/blog/2016/jun/06/openchain-spec/">commented on the OpenChain specification</a> to help make sure that the initiative by companies to collaboratively come up with standards and shared materials around compliance also meets community expectations about how compliance obligations are satisfied.</li>
 <li>We supported, helped coordinate, and financially backed volunteers from
   our member projects to organize seven conferences in three continents, where thousands of
   attendees learned about free and open source software.</li>
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 of diversity for the community via Outreachy and other programs, and are the
 legal home to 40 member projects that are essential to developing free
 software.</p>
 <p>We undertake these critical programs because they are essential to the
 future of technology. We do them because they are right. <strong>But we cannot do
-them without you</strong>. Last year you helped us to fundraising goals so that we not only did not have to shut our doors but instead were able to <a href="http://sfconservancy.org/news/2016/aug/22/brett-joins/">hire a new employee</a>. Even with our additional employee, we do not yet have the resources to handle our existing workload.</p>
 them without you</strong>. Last year you helped us to fundraising goals so that we not only did not have to shut our doors but instead were able to <a href="/news/2016/aug/22/brett-joins/">hire a new employee</a>. Even with our additional employee, we do not yet have the resources to handle our existing workload.</p>
 <p>Our fiscal sponsorship model is not financially self-sustaining by itself:
 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
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 <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="http://sfconservancy.org/news/2016/aug/09/vmware-appeal/">continues on appeal</a>). While this work is extremely important to the continued long-term
 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
 conferences to cancel or prevent talks on our compliance work. We do
 this work because we think that it is good for everyone in the long run,

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