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). Learn more.
On MON 2025-09-22, the trial begins in SFC's historic lawsuit against Vizio for their violations of GPLv2 & LGPLv2.1. Would you like to attend the trial as an observer? Apply for a travel grant today!
August 1, 2025
Free software projects can't thrive without support for their contributors to communicate and collaborate. For over 18 years, Lance Albertson has devoted himself to providing critically needed infrastructure for hundreds of the most important free and open source projects through his work at Oregon State University's Open Source Lab (OSUOSL). Besides doing technical work to maintain and improve these services, he has selflessly mentored and supported generations of the Lab's students as they develop their own skills. Even prior to OSUOSL, he contributed to free software as a developer and package maintainer for Gentoo Linux.
Lance Albertson receiving award from Pono Takamori, copyright John Sullivan, CC-BY 3.0
July 24, 2025
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In a summary judgment motion, a party in a lawsuit asks the Court to rule immediately on some (or all) of the claims made in the complaint. A motion for summary judgment on just some issues is called “partial”. … In California state court — these are “motions for summary adjudication”.