diff --git a/www/conservancy/static/supporter/2015-supporter-appeal.html b/www/conservancy/static/supporter/2015-supporter-appeal.html index 18f46d5c..1ec07d98 100644 --- a/www/conservancy/static/supporter/2015-supporter-appeal.html +++ b/www/conservancy/static/supporter/2015-supporter-appeal.html @@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ Software Freedom Conservancy has had a lot of major successes this year: Conservancy: QEMU, the generic machine emulator and virtualizer, The Bro Network Security -Monitor, the Godot Game Engine[FIXME] +Monitor, the Godot Game Engine, and Outreachy, a program dedicated to helping people from underrepresented groups get involved in free and open source software. We also worked with the Debian community to launch @@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ the Debian Copyright Aggregation Project at their request.
  • We supported -the law suit Christoph Hellwig has brought against VMware in Germany, the +the lawsuit Christoph Hellwig has brought against VMware in Germany, the first case on derivative works and the GPL.
  • We fought for @@ -107,14 +107,14 @@ ensuring that you are free to hack on the devices that you legally own.
  • We collaborated with the Free Software Foundation to publish the Principles -of Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement , establishing community norms for +of Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement, establishing community norms for enforcing the GPL in the public's interest, which have already been translated into Korean [and Chinese].
  • Along with FSF, we helped Canonical, -Ltd. achieve compliance in its “Intellectual Property” Policy, while +Ltd. achieve compliance in its "Intellectual Property" Policy, while pointing out that the policy fails to address important software freedom issues.
    • @@ -144,7 +144,7 @@ firmware in wireless devices.
  • We gave keynotes at DebConf, FOSDEM, FISL, LibrePlanet, Linaro -Connect and participated in many conferences more all over the world, and +Connect, and participated in many conferences more all over the world; we also shared our expertise in initiatives like copyleft.org. We participated in interviews and blogposts, and @@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ 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. We cannot +

    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. In order to effectively continue to serve our member projects, we need [750] Supporters. If you use or care about @@ -182,11 +182,11 @@ Supporter today.

    Fighting for the GPL

    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 +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 law suit on derivative works and the +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, it makes fundraising from companies very difficult. While enforcement of the protections around free and open source @@ -195,14 +195,14 @@ reluctant to fund organizations that take on this enforcement task. Some compani have withdrawn from funding us and some have even successfully pressured conferences to cancel or prevent talks on our enforcement 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 +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 show us by becoming a Supporter now.

    It's up to you

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    We have raised enough money to continue the VMware case but our overall +

    We have raised enough money to continue the VMware case, but our overall enforcement work needs additional support to be able to continue. As we state in the Principles