@@ -73,15 +73,15 @@ Wine, BusyBox, QEMU, Inkscape, Selenium, and dozens more
<p>We are asking for you
to <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/">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]
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 [2500] of you to become annual Supporters now to continue
We need 2500 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>
<h4>2015 successes</h4>
@@ -114,13 +114,13 @@ 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="https://sfconservancy.org/linux-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
into Korean</a> [and Chinese].</li>
into Korean</a>.</li>
<li>Along with FSF, we
helped <a href="http://sfconservancy.org/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>
@@ -177,13 +177,13 @@ 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
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
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>
<h4>Fighting for the GPL</h4>
@@ -219,13 +219,13 @@ 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>
<p>As a result, we need [2500] Supporters in order to maintain the staff and
<p>As a result, we need 2500 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>
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>