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<h1>Conservancy's Copyleft Compliance Projects</h1>

<p>Free and open source software 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 engages in copyleft compliance work in two different ways: by acting directly

Free and Open Source License compliance efforts, and for

specific, targeted member projects for communities of developers.</p>

<p>Conservancy's Copyleft Compliance Projects are run in a collaborative manner with

the project developers.  All copyright holders involved have the opportunity

to give input and guidance on Conservancy's strategy in dealing with

compliance issues.  Thus, all Conservancy's compliance matter have full

support of relevant copyright holders.</p>

<p>Historically, Conservancy was well-known for its ongoing license

compliance efforts on behalf of its BusyBox member project.  Today, Conservancy

does semi-regular compliance work for its BusyBox, Evergreen, Git, Inkscape, Mercurial,

Samba, Sugar Labs and Wine member projects.  If you are a copyright holder

in any member project of Conservancy, please contact the project's leadership committtee,

via <a href="mailto:PROJECTNAME@sfconservancy.org">&lt;PROJECTNAME@sfconservancy.org&gt;</a>

for more information on getting involved in compliance efforts in that project.

</p>

<h2>GPL Compliance Project For Linux Developers</h2>

<p>In May

2012, <a href="/news/2012/may/29/compliance/">Conservancy

launched</a> the <cite>GPL

Compliance Project for Linux Developers</cite>, which handles compliance and

enforcement activities on behalf of more than a dozen Linux copyright

holders.</p>

<p>The GPL Compliance Project for Linux Developers is comprised of copyright

holders in the kernel, Linux, who have contributed to Linux under its

license, <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html">the

GPLv2</a>. These copyright holders have formally asked Conservancy to engage

in compliance efforts for their copyrights in the Linux kernel.  In addition,

some developers have directly assigned their copyrights on Linux to Conservancy,

so Conservancy also enforces the GPL on Linux via its own copyrights in Linux.</p>

<p>Linux copyright holders who wish to assign copyright to or sign an enforcement agreement with

Conservancy should contact <a href="mailto:linux-services@sfconservancy.org">&lt;linux-services@sfconservancy.org&gt;</a>.</p>

<h2>The Debian Copyright Aggregation Project</h2>

<p>In August 2015, <a href="/news/2015/aug/17/debian/">Conservancy announced the Debian Copyright Aggregation

Project</a>.  This project allows Debian contributors to assign copyrights to

Conservancy, or sign enforcement agreements allowing Conservancy to enforce

Free and Open Source (FOSS) licenses on their behalf.  Many Debian contributors

have chosen each of these options already, and more continue to join.</p>

<p>Debian contributors who wish to assign copyright to or sign an enforcement agreement with

Conservancy should contact <a href="mailto:debian-services@sfconservancy.org">&lt;debian-services@sfconservancy.org&gt;</a>.</p>

<h2>Conservancy's Commitment to Copyleft License Compliance</h2>

<p>Conservancy is dedicated to encouraging all users of software to comply

  with Free Software licenses. Toward this goal, in its compliance efforts,

  Conservancy helps distributors of Free Software in a friendly spirit of

  cooperation and participation.  In this spirit, Conservancy has co-published,

  with the Free Software Foundation (FSF), <a href="/linux-compliance/principles.html">the principles that both organizations

  follow in their compliance efforts</a>.

  Also in collaboration with the FSF, Conservancy also sponsors

  the <a href="https://copyleft.org/guide/"><cite>Copyleft and the GNU

  General Public License:A Comprehensive Tutorial and Guide</cite></a>,

  which <a href="/news/2014/nov/07/copyleft-org/">formally

  launched in fall 2014</a>.  The Guide includes tutorial materials about

  copyleft and compliance with copyleft licenses,

  including <a href="https://copyleft.org/guide/comprehensive-gpl-guidepa2.html"><cite>A

  Practical Guide to GPL Compliance</cite></a>.  The materials

  on <a href="https://copyleft.org/">copyleft.org</a> have been developed and

  improved since 2002, and are themselves copylefted, and developed

  collaboratively in public.</p>

<p>However, the Guide is admittedly a large document, so for those who are

  interested in a short summary of describing how Conservancy handles GPL

  enforcement and compliance

  work, <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2012/feb/01/gpl-enforcement/">this

  blog post outlining the compliance process</a> is likely the best source.</p>

<h2>Reporting GPL Violations To Us</h2>

<p>If you are aware of a license violation or compliance issue regarding

  Debian, Linux, or

  any <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/members/current/">Conservancy member

  project</a> (&mdash; in particular BusyBox, Evergreen, Inkscape, Mercurial,

  Samba, Sugar Labs, or Wine),

  please <a href="mailto:compliance@sfconservancy.org">contact us by email at

    &lt;compliance@sfconservancy.org&gt;</a>.</p>

<p>If you think you've found a GPL violation, we encourage you to

   read <a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2009/11/08/gpl-enforcement.html">this

   personal blog post by our Distinguished Technologist, Bradley M. Kuhn</a>,

   about good practices in discovering and reporting GPL violations.  (We'd

   also like someone to convert the text of that blog post into a patch for

   <a href="http://compliance.guide">The Compliance Guide on

   copyleft.org</a>; submit it

   via <a href="https://k.copyleft.org/guide/">k.copyleft.org</a>.)</p>

<h2>Donate to Support This Work</h2>

<p>Finally, Conservancy welcomes <a href="#donate-box"

  class="donate-now">donations</a> in support of our GPL Compliance Projects,

  and we encourage you to become a <a href="/supporter/">an official

  Supporter of Software Freedom Conservancy</a>. </p>

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  Conservancy's work.</p>

<h3>Become <a href="/supporter/#annual">a Supporter</a> Now!</h3>

<p>The best way to <a href="/supporter/#annual">donate to Conservancy is via

our official Supporter program</a>, which earns a t-shirt and other

  surprise Supporter-only perks throughout the year.</p>

<p>But, there are many other great ways to donate to Conservancy as

well, listed below:</p>

<h3>Donate by paper check</h3>

<p>Send paper check donations, drawn in USD, to:</p>

<p>Software Freedom Conservancy<br />

137 MONTAGUE ST  STE 380<br/>

Brooklyn, NY 11201-3548<br/>

USA

</p>

<br/>

<h3>Donate monthly via PayPal (including Visa, Mastercard, AMEX or ACH)</h3>

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<h3>Donate via Flattr</h3>

<p>

<a href="https://www.flattr.com">Flattr</a> is a social micro-payment system that allows users to make donations via the web.  Flattr does not charge any processing fees on donations to Conservancy.  If you are a Flattr user and you would like to "flattr" Conservancy with a donation, click on the button below:

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<img src="https://api.flattr.com/button/flattr-badge-large.png" alt="Flattr us!" title="Flattr us!" style="border:0" /></a>

<h3>Donate a Portion of your eBay Sales</h3>

<p>Through the eBay/PayPal Giving Fund program, you can <a href="http://givingworks.ebay.com/charity-auctions/charity/software-freedom-conservancy-inc/57449/">donate a portion of your eBay sale proceeds to Software Freedom Conservancy</a>!  You can also <a href="https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/search-cause?charityId=57449">donate directly through the PayPal Giving fund</a>.</p>

<br/>

<h3>Donate a Portion of your Amazon Purchases</h3>

<p>Through <a href="https://smile.amazon.com/ch/41-2203632">Amazon's Smile program, Amazon will donate to Conservancy for your purchases there</a>.  Just sign up through the <a href="https://smile.amazon.com/ch/41-2203632">following this link</a>.</p>

<h3>Donate by wire transfer (or bank transfer)</h3>

<p>Donations are accepted by wire transfer.  Please

contact <a href="mailto:accounting@sfconservancy.org">&lt;accounting@sfconservancy.org&gt;</a>

    for wire transfer instructions, and include in your email the following

  information:</p>

<ul>

<li>The country of origin of your wire transfer.</li>

<li>The native currency of your donation.</li>

</ul>

<p>Note that Conservancy can accept donations by wire in USD, CAD, EUR, GBP

  natively.  (We keep them in the native currency and use it for expenses in

  those currencies, so we lose nothing in currency conversion).</p>

<p>Finally, note that while this method is called &ldquo;wire transfer&rdquo;

  in the USA, the method is usually compatible with most online banking forms

  that people use in Europe and elsewhere to send funds.  Please just contact us

  if you need to donate in native currency from your country and we'll

  discuss it!</p>

<br/>

<h3>Donate stock</h3>

<p>Conservancy can accept donation of stocks!   Please

contact <a href="mailto:accounting@sfconservancy.org">&lt;accounting@sfconservancy.org&gt;</a>

  for details.</p>

<p>Finally, Conservancy also maintains directed donation programs for

for these directed donation programs are typically found on the

individual websites of our members.</p>

<h3>Donations Are Usually Tax-Deductible!</h3>

<p>Software Freedom Conservancy, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) organization

  incorporated in New York, and donations made to it are fully tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.</p>

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<h1> Applying to Join Conservancy as a Member Project</h1>

<p>Conservancy's Evaluation Committee considers  applications monthly on a

  rolling basis.  Currently, Conservancy has dozens of projects in

  various stages of the application process.</p>

<p>The application process is somewhat informal.  New applicants should

  write an initial inquiry email

  to <a href="mailto:apply@sfconservancy.org">&lt;apply@sfconservancy.org&gt;</a>

  with a very brief description of their project and a URL to their

  project's website.  We'll send back initial questions (if any), and

  after those questions are answered, we'll send the full application

  materials.  Applications should be submitted in plain ASCII text via

  email.</p>

<p>Projects are reviewed by Conservancy's Evaluation Committee, which is

  chartered by Conservancy's <a href="/about/board/">Board of

  Directors</a>.</p>

<h1>Project Membership Application FAQs</h1>

<p>The following are various questions that we typically get from project

  leaders that wish to apply to Conservancy.</p>

<h2>I sent in my inquiry letter and/or application a long time ago.  Why haven't you replied?</h2>

<p>Conservancy receives an overwhelming level of interest and we have very few

  <a href="/about/staff/">staff positions</a> to

  meet the interest and demand

  for <a href="/members/services/">Conservancy's

  services</a> to its member projects.  Meanwhile, Conservancy always

  prioritizes needs of

  its <a href="/members/current/">existing member

  projects</a> over new inquiries and applications.  Therefore, it

  sometimes can take quite a while to finish the application process and

  be offered membership, but please note that such delays mean that should

  your project ultimately become a member project, your project will then

  be a beneficiary of this policy.</p>

<h2>What are the key criteria our project must meet to join?</h2>

<p>In order to join, projects need to meet certain criteria.  A rough

  outline of those criteria are as follows:</p>

<ul><li>The project must be a software development or documentation

    project.  Non-software projects to advance the cause of software

    freedom, while important and useful, are beyond the scope of

    Conservancy.</li>

    <li>The project must be exclusively devoted to the development and

    documentation of FLOSS.  The project's goals must be consistent with

    Conservancy's tax-exempt purposes, and other requirements imposed

    on Conservancy by the IRS' 501(c)(3) rules.  Namely, the goal of the

    project must to develop and document the software in a not-for-profit

    way to advance the public good, and must develop the software in

    public.</li>

    <li>The project must be licensed in a way fitting with software

      freedom principles.  Specifically, all software of the project

      should be licensed under a license that is listed both as

      a <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html">Free

      Software license by the Free Software Foundation</a> and as

      an <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical">Open

      Source license by the Open Source Initiative</a>.  All software

      documentation for the project should be licensed under a license on

      the preceding lists, or under Creative

      Commons' <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/">CC-By-SA</a>

      or <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/">CC-By</a>

      or

        <a href="https://creativecommons.org/choose/zero/">CC-0</a>.</li>

   <li>The project should have an existing, vibrant, diverse community

      that develops and documents the software.  For example, projects

      that have been under development for less than a year or only a

      “proof of concept” implementation are generally not

      eligible.</li>

</ul>

<p>While any project meeting the criteria above can apply, meeting these

  criteria doesn't guarantee acceptance of your project.  Conservancy

  favors projects that are well-established and have some track record of

  substantial contributions from a community of volunteer developers.

  Furthermore, Conservancy does give higher priority to projects that

  have an established userbase and interest, but also tries to accept some

  smaller projects with strong potential.</p>

<h2>Is our project required to accept membership if offered?</h2>

<p>Not at all.  Many projects apply and subsequently decide not to join a

  non-profit, or decide to join a different non-profit entity.  Don't

  worry about “wasting our time” if your project's developers

  aren't completely sure yet if they want to join Conservancy.  If

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<p>Conservancy is currently home to thirty-nine member projects.</p>

<h2><a href="http://argouml.tigris.org/">ArgoUML</a></h2>

<p>ArgoUML is the leading open source UML modeling tool and includes

support for all standard UML 1.4 diagrams. It runs on any Java platform

and is available in ten languages. See the feature list for more details.</p>

<h2><a href="http://bongo-project.org/">Bongo</a></h2>

<p>The Bongo Project is creating fun and simple mail, calendaring and

contacts software: on top of a standards-based server stack; we're

innovating fresh and interesting web user interfaces for managing

personal communications. Bongo is providing an entirely free software

solution which is less concerned with the corporate mail scenario and

much more focused on how people want to organize their lives.</p>

<h2><a href="http://www.boost.org/">Boost</a></h2>

<p>Boost provides free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries.</p>

<p>Boost emphasizes libraries that work well with the C++ Standard

  Library.  Boost libraries are intended to be widely useful, and usable

  across a broad spectrum of applications.  The Boost license encourages

  both commercial and non-commercial use.</p>

<p>Boost aims to establish &ldquo;existing practice&rdquo; and provide

reference implementations so that Boost libraries are suitable for

eventual standardization. Ten Boost libraries are already included in the

C++ Standards Committee's Library Technical Report (TR1) as a step toward

becoming part of a future C++ Standard. More Boost libraries are proposed

for the upcoming TR2.</p>

<h2><a href="https://www.bro.org/">Bro Network Security Monitor</a></h2>

<p>Bro provides a comprehensive platform for network traffic analysis, with a

particular focus on semantic security monitoring at scale. While often

compared to classic intrusion detection/prevention systems, Bro takes a quite

different approach by providing users with a flexible framework that

facilitates customized, in-depth monitoring far beyond the capabilities of

traditional systems. With initial versions in operational deployment during

the mid '90s already, Bro finds itself grounded in more than 20 years of

research.</p>

<h2><a href="http://buildbot.net/">Buildbot</a></h2>

<p>

Buildbot is a freely-licensed framework which enables software

developers to automate software build, test, and release processes for their

software projects.  First released in 2003, Buildbot is used by leading 

software projects around the world to automate all aspects of their 

software development cycle. </p>

<h2 id="busybox"><a href="https://busybox.net/">BusyBox</a></h2>

<p>BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a

single small executable. It provides replacements for most of the

utilities you usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc. The

utilities in BusyBox generally have fewer options than their

full-featured GNU cousins; however, the options that are included

provide the expected functionality and behave very much like their GNU

counterparts. BusyBox provides a fairly complete environment for any

small or embedded system.</p>

<p>BusyBox has been written with size-optimization and limited

resources in mind. It is also extremely modular so you can easily

include or exclude commands (or features) at compile time. This makes

it easy to customize your embedded systems. To create a working

system, just add some device nodes in /dev, a few configuration files

in /etc, and a Linux kernel.</p>

<h2><a href="http://darcs.net/">Darcs</a></h2>

<p>Darcs is a distributed revision control system written in Haskell. In

Darcs, every copy of your source code is a full repository, which allows for

full operation in a disconnected environment, and also allows anyone with

read access to a Darcs repository to easily create their own branch and

modify it with the full power of Darcs' revision control. Darcs is based on

an underlying theory of patches, which allows for safe reordering and

merging of patches even in complex scenarios. For all its power, Darcs

remains a very easy to use tool for every day use because it follows the

principle of keeping simple things simple.  Darcs is free software

licensed under the GNU GPL.</p>

<h2><a href="/news/2015/aug/17/debian/">Debian Copyright Aggregation Project</a></h2>

<p>The Debian Copyright Aggregation Project offers contributors to

  the <a href="https://www.debian.org">Debian project</a> the optional

  opportunity, regarding their works contributed to Debian, to assign

  copyrights or sign a license enforcement agreement (which delegates to

  Conservancy the authority of license enforcement).  The Project also

  creates an ongoing relationship between Conservancy and Debian, wherein

  Conservancy offers Debian its expertise and advice on software licensing,

  enforcement, and related issues.</p>

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  through its work to provide

  to

  is to handle all the parts of advocacy, leadership, organization and

  coordination other than actual development of the software and

  documentation.  By handling all these details, Conservancy allows its

  member project developers to focus on what they do best: writing,

  improving and documenting FLOSS.</p>

<p>Project leaders who believe that their project might benefit from

  Conservancy's <a href="/members/services/">member project services</a>

  are encouraged to <a href="/members/apply/">apply for

  membership</a>.</p>

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<h1>Member Project Services</h1>

<p>Conservancy assists FLOSS project leaders by handling all matters other

  than software development and documentation, so the developers can focus

  on what they do best: improving the software for the public good.  The

  following are the services and options that are available to FLOSS

  projects that have joined Conservancy as a member project.</p>

<h2>Tax-Deductible, Earmarked Donations</h2>

<p>Member projects can receive earmarked donations through Conservancy.

   Since Conservancy is a 501(c)(3) charity incorporated in New York,

   donors can often deduct the donation on their USA taxes.  Additionally,

   the donors can indicate that their donation should be used to advance a

   specific member project, and those funds are kept in a separate account

   for the member project by Conservancy.  This structure prevents

   developers from having to commingle project funds with their own

   personal accounts or having to set up their own project specific

   account.</p>

   <p>Since Conservancy is a tax-exempt organization, there are some

   limits that the law places on what member projects can do with their

   assets, but those limits are the same as if the project was an

   independent non-profit entity.  Usually, the project leadership

   instructs Conservancy's leadership on how the project's funds are spent.

   Conservancy spends these funds on the project's behalf on any expenses

   that constitute appropriate activity under Conservancy's 501(c)(3)

   not-for-profit mission.  Some typical uses of earmarked donations by

   Conservancy's member projects are:</p>

<ul>

<li>funding travel expenses for project developers to attend relevant

  conferences.</li> 

<li>domain name fees, bandwidth costs, and computer equipment

  purchases.</li>

<li>purchasing media for distribution of project software at conferences

  and events.</li>

<li>paying key developers on a contractual basis to improve the project's

  software and its documentation.</li>

<li>sponsoring and organizing conferences for the project.</li>

<li>trademark registration and enforcement.</li>

<li>FLOSS license enforcement and compliance activity.</li>

</ul>

<h2>Asset Stewardship</h2>

<p>Conservancy can hold any assets for the project on its behalf.  This

  includes copyrights, trademarks, domain names, physical computer

  equipment or anything that should be officially held in the name of the

  project.  Member projects are not required that Conservancy hold all

  assets of a project. (For example, member projects are

  not <em>required</em> to assign copyrights to Conservancy.)

  However, Conservancy can accommodate the needs of projects that want

  their assets under the control of a not-for-profit entity and exercised

  only for the public good.</p>

<h2>Contract Negotiation and Execution</h2>

<p>Projects sometimes need to negotiate and execute a contract with a

  company.  For example, when a project wants to organize and run a

  conference, the venue usually has a complicated contract for rental of

  the space and services.  Conservancy assists projects in the negotiation

  of such contracts, and can sign them on behalf of the project.</p>

<h2>Conference Logistical Support</h2>

<p>Many Conservancy projects have an annual conference.  Conservancy

  provides logistical support for these conferences, particularly in the

  area of financial responsibility and liability.  Conservancy provides a

  small amount of logistical support for conference in other ways,

  resource-permitting.</p>

<h2>Basic Legal Advice and Services</h2>

<p>Since projects, upon joining, become organizationally part of

  Conservancy, Conservancy can provide basic legal services to its member

  projects through Conservancy's own General Counsel, outside counsel, and

  pro-bono attorneys.  For example, Conservancy assists its projects in

  handling issues related to trademark registration, trademark policy

  development and licensing, trademark enforcement, copyright licensing

  and enforcement, and non-profit governance questions and issues.</p>

<h2>FLOSS Copyright License Enforcement</h2>

<p>Complying with FLOSS licenses is easy, as they permit and encourage

  both non-commercial and commercial distribution and improvements.

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