them without you</b>. If we do not meet our fundraising goals, we will be

forced to radically restructure.</p>

<p>Our fiscal sponsorship model is not financially self-sustaining by itself:  we cannot

afford even one staff member and basic overhead with the revenue we take in

from our projects. In order to effectively continue to serve our member

projects, we need [750] Supporters. If you use or care about

our <a href="http://sfconservancy.org/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

Supporter today</a>.</p>

<p>Many consider our GPL compliance and enforcement controversial.   We don't

think it is:  we stand up for

the GPL at the request of the Linux kernel community, the Debian community, 

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

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, it makes fundraising from companies

very difficult. While enforcement of the protections around free and open source

software is in the long term interest of the industry, many companies are

reluctant to fund organizations that take on this enforcement task. Some companies