Software Freedom Conservancy

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Software Freedom Conservancy
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Founded April 7, 2006; 18 years ago (2006-04-07)
Type 501(c)(3)
Location
Fields Software
Key people
 Karen Sandler (Executive Director)
Bradley M. Kuhn (President)
Website sfconservancy.org

The Software Freedom Conservancy is an organization that provides a non-profit home and infrastructure for free/open source software projects,[1][2] established in 2006.[3][4] As of January 2016, Conservancy had 37 member projects, including QEMU, Boost, BusyBox, Git, Inkscape, Samba, Sugar Labs and Wine.[5]

History

Conservancy was established in 2006.[3][4]

In 2007 Conservancy started coordinated GPL compliance and enforcement actions, primarily for the BusyBox project,[6] see BusyBox GPL lawsuits. Later, the BusyBox maintainer Rob Landley who supported initially these lawsuits, regretted his decision and criticized the suing practice of the SFC.[7][8][9]

In October 2010, Conservancy hired its first Executive Director, Bradley M. Kuhn[10] and a year later, its first General Counsel, Tony Sebro.[11] In May 2012, Conservancy took on GPL compliance and enforcement for several other member projects, and for a number of individual Linux kernel developers.[12][13] In March 2014, Conservancy appointed Karen Sandler as its Executive Director, with Bradley M. Kuhn taking on the role as Distinguished Technologist.[14][15]

In February 2015, the Outreachy program (formerly the Free and Open Source Software Program for Women) announced that it was moving from The GNOME Project to become part of Conservancy.[16]

As of July 2015, Conservancy had 30 member projects, including QEMU, Boost, BusyBox, Git, Inkscape, Samba, Sugar Labs and Wine.[5]

Litigation

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Main article: BusyBox § GPL lawsuits

In July 2010, Conservancy announced it had prevailed in court against Westinghouse Digital, receiving an injunction as part of a default judgement.[17]

In March 2015, Conservancy announced it was funding litigation by Christoph Hellwig against VMware for violation of his copyrights in its ESXi product. The case will be heard in the district court of Hamburg, Germany.[18][19] VMware stated that it believed the case was without merit and expressed disappointment that Conservancy had resorted to litigation.[20]

Directors

As of January 2016, Conservancy's directors are:[21][22]

The Board Secretary is Karen Sandler.

Past directors include:

Member projects

As of January 2016 the following 37 projects are members of the Software Freedom Conservancy:[5]

See also

References

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