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<h1><img class="appeal-header" alt="Become a Conservancy Supporter!" src="/img/conservancy-supporter-header.png"/></h1>
<p>Software Freedom needs your help.</p>
<h4>Software Freedom needs your help. </h4>
<p><i>Conservancy must to move to a
Supporter-driven organization so we can focus on critical free software
issues that nobody else is tackling. Stand up for the GPL, support great
member projects, and make your voice heard in support of free software.
<a href="https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/">Donate today</a></i></p>
The world today is powered increasingly by Free Software. But what many
people don't realize is how much support is needed to keep all of these
projects free and open. The work that we do every day ensures the success and
the continued freedom of the projects that the developers of our member
projects dedicate themselves to. Projects like Git, Samba,
Wine, BusyBox, QEMU, Inkscape, Selenium, and dozens more
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<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
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of our operations.</p>
<h4>2015 successes</h4>
Software Freedom Conservancy has had a lot of major successes this year:
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<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>,
the generic machine emulator and
virtualizer, <a href="https://www.bro.org/">The Bro Network Security
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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>
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<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