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. 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have withdrawn from funding us and some have even successfully pressured 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 enforcement work. We do

this work because we think that it is good for everyone in the long run,

because we know it is the right thing to do, and because we know that we are

in the best position to do it. But that's not enough — you have to think it's

right too and <a href="#donate-box" class="donate-now">show us by

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<p>We have raised enough money to continue the VMware case, but our overall

enforcement work needs additional support to be able to continue.  As we

state in

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

of Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement</a>, we cannot prioritize profit in

these actions without compromising on the end goals of that work which is to

help companies become free and open source software users and contributors.

<p>Moreover, we have lost committed general funding from companies explicitly

because of our enforcement work. Continuing this work without individual

support is no longer possible.</p>

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resources in the organization to properly undertake enforcement. We hope you

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

but to hibernate enforcement until we have the resources to pick it up

properly at some point in the future.</p>

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