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<p>Software Freedom needs your help.</p>

The world today is powered increasingly by Free Software. But what many

people don't realize is how much support is needed to keep all of these

projects free and open. The work that we do every day ensures the success and

the continued freedom of the projects that the developers of our member

projects so tirelessly dedicate themselves to. Projects like Git, Samba,

Wine, BusyBox, QEMU, Inkscape, Selenium, and dozens more

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<h4>2015 successes</h4>

<ul>

<li>We brought four new projects under the protection of the

Conservancy: <a href="http://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/jul/23/qemu-joins/">QEMU</a>

- the generic machine emulator and

virtualizer, <a href="https://www.bro.org/">The Bro Network Security

Monitor</a>, the Godot Game Engine[FIXME]

and <a href="http://outreachy.org">Outreachy</a>, a program dedicated to

helping people from underrepresented groups get involved in free and open

source software. We also worked with the Debian community to launch

the <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/aug/17/debian/">Debian

Copyright Aggregation Project</a> at their request.</li>

<li>We <a href="http://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/mar/05/vmware-lawsuit/">supported

the law suit</a> Christoph Hellwig has brought against VMware in Germany, the

first case on derivative works and the GPL.</li>

<li>We fought for

and <a href="http://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/oct/27/DMCA-win/">successfully

earned an exemption from the Library of Congress in the DMCA review

process</a> to legally permit circumvention of encryption on Smart TVs,

ensuring that you are free to hack on the devices that you legally own. </li>

<li>We collaborated with the <a href="https://fsf.org/">Free Software

Foundation</a> to publish

the <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/linux-compliance/principles.html">Principles

of Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement</a> , establishing community norms for

enforcing the GPL in the public's interest[, and

already <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/linux-compliance/principles.kr.html">translated

into Korean</a> [and Chinese].</li>

<li>Along with FSF, we

helped <a href="http://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/jul/15/ubuntu-ip-policy/">Canonical,

Ltd. achieve compliance in its “Intellectual Property” Policy</a>, while

pointing out that the policy fails to address important software freedom

issues.</li>

<li>We conducted friendly discussions with companies out of compliance with

the GPL, seeking non-litigious resolutions.</li>

<li>We participated in the process

of <a href="http://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/oct/14/FCC-comment/">telling

the FCC to fix its proposed rules</a> restricting third-party modification of

firmware in wireless devices.

<li>We gave keynotes

at <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2015/aug/17/debian/">DebConf</a>, <a href="https://archive.fosdem.org/2015/schedule/event/identity_crisis/">FOSDEM</a>, <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2015/jul/14/FISL16/">FISL</>, <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/mar/31/libreplanet/">LibrePlanet</a>, <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2015/sep/30/linaro-keynote/">Linaro

Connect</> and participated in many conferences more all over the world, and