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    <p class="mb0" style="font-size: 18px">Software Freedom Conservancy is a nonprofit organization
centered around ethical technology. Our mission is to ensure the right to
repair, improve and reinstall software. We promote and defend these rights
through fostering free and open source software (FOSS) projects, driving
initiatives that actively make technology more inclusive, and advancing policy
strategies that defend FOSS (such as copyleft). <a href="/about" class="orange">Learn more.</a></p>
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    <h2 class="f4 ttu">Sandler Receives Honorary Doctorate</h2>
    <p>Our Executive Director, Karen M. Sandler, was awarded an honorary
    doctorate in early February for her work on software rights and diversity
      in the FOSS community.</p>
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  <a href="/videos/2023-02-02_Sandler-Karen_KU-Leuven_Honorary-Doctorate.mp4">Download the talk video</a>
  or <a href="https://youtu.be/zca7dOU7jfs">watch on YouTube</a>
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    <h3 class="ttu">Term of the week</h3>
    <h4 id="foss-commons">proprietary relicensing</h4>
    <p><em>Proprietary relicensing</em> is a toxic business model whereby a company
    distributes software under a <a href="/copyleft-compliance/glossary.html#copyleft"><em>copyleft</em> licenses</a>, but refuses to
    agree to the copyleft license themselves (by collecting rights to issue
    proprietary,
    non-<a href="/copyleft-compliance/glossary.html#FOSS">FOSS</a> licenses
    for the software separately).  While the software is technically
    available as FOSS, users must worry since the rights-holder usually
    captiously (and often incorrectly) interprets the copyleft license and
    demands licensing fees for acts that copyleft actually permits.  Users
    must chose whether to fight the proprietary relicensor in Court, buy a
    proprietary license, or cease use of the software.  This behavior is
    widely consider by FOSS activists as an inappropriate use of copyleft
      licensing.</p>
    <p><a href="/copyleft-compliance/glossary.html" class="orange ttu">Visit our glossary of terms</a></p>
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