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    Now!</h1></div>

<h3 class="donate-box-highlight">Become a Supporter Now:</h3>

<p>Support us now!</p>

<h4><a href="#annual"><span class="donate-box-highlight">Annual supporter</span> via PayPal, ACH, or credit card.</a></h4>

<h4><a href="#monthly"><span class="donate-box-highlight">Monthly supporter</span> via PayPal, ACH, or credit card.</a></h4>

<span class="donate-box-highlight">Other annual supporters methods:</span>

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    data-expanded-text="Wire Transfer:">Wire Transfer</h4>

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       Contact <a href="mailto:accounting@sfconservancy.org">Conservancy

            by email</a><br/> for wire transfer instructions.<br/>

            Include  currency &amp; country.<br/>

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    <h4 class="toggle-control" data-text="Paper Check" 

    data-expanded-text="Paper Check:">Paper Check</h4>

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    Send paper check for $120 to:<br/>

    Software Freedom Conservancy, Inc.<br/>

    137 MONTAGUE ST  STE 380<br/>

    BROOKLYN, NY 11201-3548 &nbsp; USA<br/>

    Please write <q>SUPPORTER</q> and t-shirt size in memo line. 

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  <h1 class="appeal"><img class="appeal-header" alt="Become a Conservancy Supporter!" src="/img/conservancy-supporter-header.png"/></h1>

<h4>Software Freedom needs your help. </h4>

<p><em>Conservancy must move to a 

Supporter-driven organization so we can focus on critical free software 

issues that nobody else is tackling.  Stand up for the GPL, support great 

member projects, and make your voice heard in support of free software.  

<a href="#donate-box" class="donate-now">Donate today!</a></em></p>

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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 dedicate themselves to. Projects like Git, Samba,

Wine, BusyBox, QEMU, Inkscape, Selenium, and dozens more.</p>

<p>We are asking for you

  to <a href="#donate-box" class="donate-now">join us and become a

    Conservancy Supporter</a> but this is more than our usual annual

  fundraising appeal.  As described in more detail below, after the events 

  of 2015, we must substantially increase our individual support to be able 

  to continue defending software freedom for our member projects and the 

  entire free and open source software community.  We need at least 750 

  of you to become annual Supporters just to continue our basic community services.

  We need 2,500 of you to become annual Supporters now to continue

  our work enforcing copyleft licenses.  If you don't become a Supporter now,

  we will be forced to radically restructure and wind down a substantial portion

  of our operations.</p>

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<h4>2015 successes</h4>

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<p>

Software Freedom Conservancy has had a lot of major successes this year:

<ul>

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

Conservancy: <a href="/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 <a href="http://www.godotengine.org/">Godot Game Engine</a>,

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="/news/2015/aug/17/debian/">Debian

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

<li>We <a href="/news/2015/mar/05/vmware-lawsuit/">supported

the lawsuit</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="/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="/copyleft-compliance/principles.html">Principles

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

enforcing the GPL in the public's interest, which have 

already been <a href="/copyleft-compliance/principles.kr.html">translated

into Korean</a>.</li>

<li>Along with FSF, we

helped <a href="/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="/news/2015/oct/14/FCC-comment/">telling

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

firmware in wireless devices.

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<div id="donate-box" class="toggle-unit"><h1 class="toggle-content">Support

    Now!</h1></div>

<h3 class="donate-box-highlight">Become a Supporter Now:</h3>

<p>Support us now!</p>

<h4><a href="#annual"><span class="donate-box-highlight">Annual supporter</span> via PayPal, ACH, or credit card.</a></h4>

<h4><a href="#monthly"><span class="donate-box-highlight">Monthly supporter</span> via PayPal, ACH, or credit card.</a></h4>

<span class="donate-box-highlight">Other annual supporters methods:</span>

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    <h4 class="toggle-control" data-text="Wire Transfer" 

    data-expanded-text="Wire Transfer:">Wire Transfer</h4>

    <div class="toggle-content">

       Contact <a href="mailto:accounting@sfconservancy.org">Conservancy

            by email</a><br/> for wire transfer instructions.<br/>

            Include  currency &amp; country.<br/>

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<div class="toggle-unit">

    <h4 class="toggle-control" data-text="Paper Check" 

    data-expanded-text="Paper Check:">Paper Check</h4>

    <div class="toggle-content">

    Send paper check for $120 to:<br/>

    Software Freedom Conservancy, Inc.<br/>

    137 MONTAGUE ST  STE 380<br/>

    BROOKLYN, NY 11201-3548 &nbsp; USA<br/>

    Please write <q>SUPPORTER</q> and t-shirt size in memo line. 

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  <h1><img class="appeal-header" alt="Become a Conservancy Supporter!" src="/img/conservancy-supporter-header.png"/></h1>

<p>Software Freedom Conservancy is an essential organization to free and

open source software. We are the home of over

<a href="/members/current/">30 projects</a> like 

<a href="http://git-scm.org">Git</a>,

<a href="http://inkscape.org">Inkscape</a>, <a href="http://samba.org">Samba</a>,

<a href="http://winehq.org">Wine</a>, <a href="http://www.seleniumhq.org/">Selenium</a>, the <a href="/linux-compliance/">GPL Compliance Project for Linux

Developers</a>, <a href="http://pypy.org">PyPy</a> and

<a href="http://sugarlabs.org/">Sugar Labs</a> just to name a few. Conservancy is a "fiscal sponsor plus",

providing everything that our projects need in a nonprofit. We help our

projects defend their trademarks, manage their assets, handle donations,

improve their community management, manage risk and assist them with all

legal needs they may have. While we do receive a portion of the revenue

donated to our projects, we keep that number low enough that it doesn't

even pay for a single staff member. <a href="#donate-box" class="donate-now">Help us</a> show that you care about

community-focused free software and help us be able to continue our

charitable work. Donating to Conservancy is a great non-technical way to

contribute to the cause.</p>

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<p>For the first time, we're launching a Supporter

program. For <a href="#donate-box" class="donate-now">an annual donation of $120</a>, you can

download an official Supporter card and receive a Conservancy t-shirt<a id="return-footnote-shirts-when"></a>. If

this is out of reach, please donate at whatever level you can - it makes a

big difference to us to know that you <a href="#donate-box" class="donate-now">support us</a>, and a little goes a long

way.</p>

<p>In addition to supporting our projects,

<ul>

<li>we share our expertise across communities. We speak at many

conferences, and publish materials to increase understanding about the

organizational, community and legal issues around free and open source

software. We advocate for free and open source software and provide

education around that mission.  We form partnerships across our

communities to work more effectively.  Check out <a 

href="https://copyleft.org/">copyleft.org</a>

or sign up to join the <a 

href="http://sfconservancy.org/news/2014/aug/12/tax-exempt-working-group/">

tax exempt working group</a>.</li>

<li>we seek to solve problems for the public through free and open 

source

software.  We've launched a <a href="http://npoacct.sfconservancy.org/">

nonprofits accounting project</a> to help all

nonprofits (in free software and in other fields) avoid paying millions

of dollars in licensing fees for subpar accounting software.</li>

<li>as part of Conservancy's partnership in the program, we support Karen as

  a co-organizer of the Free and Open Source Software Outreach Program.</li>

<li>we encourage and support our employees to do volunteer work in the

    community.  For example, Bradley and Karen together host an oggcast

    called <cite><a href="http://faif.us">Free as in Freedom</a></cite> which

    discusses important legal and policy issues in open source and free

    software.</li></ul>

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<p>As an organization, we try to do everything transparently; even 

our

<a 

href="https://gitorious.org/conservancy/policies/source/master:">

internal policies</a> are published and available for scrutiny.</p>

<p>Please <a href="#donate-box" class="donate-now">join our Supporter program</a> and spread software freedom!</p>

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