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Bradley Kuhn (bkuhn) - 8 years ago 2015-12-01 03:19:44
bkuhn@ebb.org
Various improvements and changes.

* Correct URLs not to include Conservancy's own site.

* Various wording changes.

* Some HTML formatting fixes.
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<tr><td style="text-align:center;padding:10px;padding-bottom:10px;">
 

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

	
 

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

	
 

	
 
  <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><i>Conservancy must to move to a 
 
<p><em>Conservancy must move to a 
 
Supporter-driven organization so we can focus on critical free software 
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member projects, and make your voice heard in support of free software.  
 
<a href="https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/">Donate today</a></i></p>
 
<a href="#donate-box" class="donate-now">Donate today!</a></em></p>
 

	
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<a href="/img/member-project-logos.png"><img height="200" width="150" src="/img/member-project-logos.png"/></a>
 
<a href="/img/member-project-logos.png"><img class="appeal-left" src="/img/member-project-logos.png"/></a>
 
<p>
 

	
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projects dedicate themselves to. Projects like Git, Samba,
 
Wine, BusyBox, QEMU, Inkscape, Selenium, and dozens more
 
Wine, BusyBox, QEMU, Inkscape, Selenium, and dozens more.</p>
 

	
 
<p>We are asking for you
 
  to <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/">join us and become a
 
  to <a href="#donate-box" class="donate-now">join us and become a
 
    Conservancy Supporter</a> but this is more than our usual annual
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  of you to become annual Supporters just to continue our basic community services.
 
  We need 2500 of you to become annual Supporters now to continue
 
  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,
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<br clear="left"/>
 
<h4>2015 successes</h4>
 

	
 
<a href="/img/conservancy-staff-photo.jpg"><img class="appeal-right" src="/img/conservancy-staff-photo.jpg"/></a>
 
<p>
 
Software Freedom Conservancy has had a lot of major successes this year:
 

	
 
[Conservancy Staff Pic Website/images/conservancystaff.jpg, left aligned with successes]
 
<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>,
 
<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
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source software. We also worked with the Debian community to launch
 
the <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/aug/17/debian/">Debian
 
the <a href="/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
 
<li>We <a href="/news/2015/mar/05/vmware-lawsuit/">supported
 
the lawsuit</a> Christoph Hellwig has brought against VMware in Germany, the
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<li>We fought for
 
and <a href="http://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/oct/27/DMCA-win/">successfully
 
and <a href="/news/2015/oct/27/DMCA-win/">successfully
 
earned an exemption from the Library of Congress in the DMCA review
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Foundation</a> to publish
 
the <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/linux-compliance/principles.html">Principles
 
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="https://sfconservancy.org/linux-compliance/principles.kr.html">translated
 
already been <a href="/copyleft-compliance/principles.kr.html">translated
 
into Korean</a>.</li>
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<li>Along with FSF, we
 
helped <a href="http://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/jul/15/ubuntu-ip-policy/">Canonical,
 
helped <a href="/news/2015/jul/15/ubuntu-ip-policy/">Canonical,
 
Ltd. achieve compliance in its "Intellectual Property" Policy</a>, while
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<li>We participated in the process
 
of <a href="http://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/oct/14/FCC-comment/">telling
 
of <a href="/news/2015/oct/14/FCC-comment/">telling
 
the FCC to fix its proposed rules</a> restricting third-party modification of
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<li>We processed and paid 116 reimbursement requests individuals doing work
 
<li>We processed and paid 116 reimbursement requests to individuals doing work
 
  around the globe advocating for their free and open source software
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<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</a>, and participated in many conferences more all over the world; we also 
 
at <a href="/blog/2015/aug/17/debian/">DebConf</a>, <a href="https://archive.fosdem.org/2015/schedule/event/identity_crisis/">FOSDEM</a>, <a href="/blog/2015/jul/14/FISL16/">FISL</>, <a href="/news/2015/mar/31/libreplanet/">LibrePlanet</a>, <a href="/blog/2015/sep/30/linaro-keynote/">Linaro
 
Connect</a>, and participated in many more conferences all over the world; we also 
 
shared our expertise in initiatives
 
like <a href="https://copyleft.org/">copyleft.org</a>. We participated in
 
interviews and <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/blog/">blogposts</a>, and
 
interviews and <a href="/blog/">blogposts</a>, and
 
Bradley and Karen published episodes of <a href="http://faif.us/">Free as in
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</ul>
 

	
 
</p>
 
<p>And we did <strong>all of this</strong> with <strong>only three full time employees</strong>.</p>
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<p>We undertake these critical programs because they are essential to the
 
future of technology. We do them because they are right. <b>But we cannot do
 
them without you</b>. If we do not meet our fundraising goals, we will be
 
future of technology. We do them because they are right. <strong>But we cannot do
 
them without you</strong>. If we do not meet our fundraising goals, we will be
 
forced to radically restructure.</p>
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projects, we need 750 Supporters. If you use or care about
 
our <a href="http://sfconservancy.org/members/current/">member projects</a>,
 
our <a href="/members/current/">member projects</a>,
 
which include some of the most widely used free software, you can help them
 
all by <a href="http://sfconservancy.org/supporter/">signing up as a
 
all by <a href="#donate-box" class="donate-now">signing up as a
 
Supporter today</a>.</p>
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[GPL copyheart pic, right aligned with following text on left]
 
<a href="/img/gpl-heart.png"><img class="appeal-right"  src="/img/gpl-heart.png"/></a>
 

	
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and our member projects. Most recently, that has resulted in our funding
 
of the <a href="http://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/mar/05/vmware-lawsuit/">suit
 
of the <a href="/news/2015/mar/05/vmware-lawsuit/">suit
 
against VMware</a>, which is the first lawsuit on derivative works and the
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in the best position to do it. But that's not enough &mdash; you have to think it's
 
right too and <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/">show us by
 
right too and <a href="#donate-box" class="donate-now">show us by
 
becoming a Supporter now</a>.</p>
 
 
 
<img alt="*** The Conservancy T-Shirt that Supporters Receive ***" class="appeal-left" src="/img/conservancy-t-shirt.jpg"/>
 

	
 
<h4>It's up to you</h4>
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state in
 
the <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/linux-compliance/principles.html">Principles
 
the <a href="/copyleft-compliance/principles.html">Principles
 
of Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement</a>, we cannot prioritize profit in
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<p>As a result, we need 2500 Supporters in order to maintain the staff and
 
<p>As a result, we need 2,500 Supporters in order to maintain the staff and
 
resources in the organization to properly undertake enforcement. We hope you
 
will <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/">sign up a Supporter</a>
 
will <a href="#donate-box" class="donate-now">sign up as a Supporter</a>
 
to help us achieve this. If we don't reach our goal, we will have no choice
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<p>If you care about the
 
GPL, <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/">help us meet our goal</a>
 
GPL, <a href="#donate-box" class="donate-now">help us meet our goal</a>
 
so we can stand up for the GPL together.</p>
 

	
 
<img class="appeal-footer" alt="*" src="/img/conservancy-supporter-heart.png"/>
 

	
 

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

	
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