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<h1>Conservancy's Copyleft Compliance Projects</h1>
<h1 id="ourwork">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>
@@ -27,13 +27,13 @@ compliance issues. Thus, all Conservancy's compliance matter have full
Conservancy's <a href="https://lists.sfconservancy.org/mailman/listinfo/principles-discuss">principles-discuss</a>
mailing list, which is named
for <a href="/copyleft-compliance/principles.html">Principles of
Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement</a> which Conservancy follows in all our
copyleft compliance.</p>
<h2>Compliance Project For Our Fiscally Sponsored Projects</h2>
<h2 id="projects">Compliance Project For Our Fiscally Sponsored Projects</h2>
<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, QEMU and Wine member projects. If you are a copyright holder
in any member project of Conservancy, please contact the project's leadership committtee,
@@ -80,13 +80,13 @@ 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"><debian-services@sfconservancy.org></a>.</p>
<h2>Conservancy's Commitment to Copyleft License Compliance</h2>
<h2 id="commitment">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="/copyleft-compliance/principles.html">the principles that both organizations
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<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="/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>
<h2 id="reporting">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="/members/current/">Conservancy member
project</a> (— in particular BusyBox, Evergreen, Inkscape, Mercurial,
Samba, Sugar Labs, or Wine),
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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>
<h2 id="support">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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