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Software Freedom needs your help.

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Conservancy must 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. -

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- -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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We are asking for you - to 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 needed at least 750 - of you to become annual Supporters just to continue our basic community - services, and we thank you so much that you responded. But - we still need 2,500 (total) of you to become annual Supporters now to continue - our licensing work, including 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.

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2015 successes

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-Software Freedom Conservancy has had a lot of major successes this year: -

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And we did all of this with only three full time employees.

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We are focused on the most important ethical issues in software -freedom. We work tirelessly and don't shy away from difficult issues.

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We're a unique organization — a staunch defender of copyleft (for Linux, -Debian and many of our member projects), a source of education and champions -of diversity for the community via Outreachy and other programs, and are the -legal home to over 30 member projects that are essential to developing free -software.

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We undertake these critical programs because they are essential to the -future of technology. We do them because they are right. But we cannot do -them without you. If we do not meet our fundraising goals, we will be -forced to radically restructure.

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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. With 750 supporters, we can now sustain the basic -work and we will survive. But to thrive, and handle the really complex tasks like -copyright and licensing advice, and license compliance, we need even more -resources. That's why our final target is 2,500 Supporters. If you use -or care about our member projects, which -include some of the most widely used free software, you can help them all -by .

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Fighting for the GPL

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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 suit -against VMware, 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 compliance 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 .

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It's up to you

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We have raised enough money to continue the VMware case, but our overall -compliance work needs additional support to be able to continue. As we -state in -the Principles -of Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement, 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. - -

Moreover, we have lost committed general funding from companies explicitly -because of our compliance work. Continuing this work without individual -support is no longer possible.

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As a result, we need 2,500 Supporters in order to maintain the staff and -resources in the organization to properly undertake compliance efforts. We hope you -will -to help us achieve this. If we don't reach our goal, we will have no choice -but to hibernate compliance until we have the resources to pick it up -properly at some point in the future.

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If you care about the -GPL, -so we can stand up for the GPL together.

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Please and spread software freedom!

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