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* Correct URLs not to include Conservancy's own site. * Various wording changes. * Some HTML formatting fixes.
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<div class="donate-sidebar">
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<table style="background-color:#afe478;width:100%;">
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<tr><td style="text-align:center;padding:10px;padding-bottom:10px;">
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<div id="donate-box" class="toggle-unit"><h1 class="toggle-content">Support
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Now!</h1></div>
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</td></tr></table>
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</div>
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<div class="content-with-donate-sidebar">
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<h1><img class="appeal-header" alt="Become a Conservancy Supporter!" src="/img/conservancy-supporter-header.png"/></h1>
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<h1 class="appeal"><img class="appeal-header" alt="Become a Conservancy Supporter!" src="/img/conservancy-supporter-header.png"/></h1>
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<h4>Software Freedom needs your help. </h4>
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<p><i>Conservancy must to move to a
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<p><em>Conservancy must move to a
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Supporter-driven organization so we can focus on critical free software
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issues that nobody else is tackling. Stand up for the GPL, support great
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member projects, and make your voice heard in support of free software.
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<a href="https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/">Donate today</a></i></p>
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<a href="#donate-box" class="donate-now">Donate today!</a></em></p>
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<a href="/img/member-project-logos.png"><img height="200" width="150" src="/img/member-project-logos.png"/></a>
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<a href="/img/member-project-logos.png"><img class="appeal-left" src="/img/member-project-logos.png"/></a>
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<p>
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The world today is powered increasingly by Free Software. But what many
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people don't realize is how much support is needed to keep all of these
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projects free and open. The work that we do every day ensures the success and
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the continued freedom of the projects that the developers of our member
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projects dedicate themselves to. Projects like Git, Samba,
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Wine, BusyBox, QEMU, Inkscape, Selenium, and dozens more
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Wine, BusyBox, QEMU, Inkscape, Selenium, and dozens more.</p>
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<p>We are asking for you
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to <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/">join us and become a
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to <a href="#donate-box" class="donate-now">join us and become a
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Conservancy Supporter</a> but this is more than our usual annual
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fundraising appeal. As described in more detail below, after the events
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of 2015, we must substantially increase our individual support to be able
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to continue defending software freedom for our member projects and the
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entire free and open source software community. We need at least 750
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of you to become annual Supporters just to continue our basic community services.
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We need 2500 of you to become annual Supporters now to continue
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We need 2,500 of you to become annual Supporters now to continue
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our work enforcing copyleft licenses. If you don't become a Supporter now,
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we will be forced to radically restructure and wind down a substantial portion
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of our operations.</p>
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<br clear="left"/>
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<h4>2015 successes</h4>
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<a href="/img/conservancy-staff-photo.jpg"><img class="appeal-right" src="/img/conservancy-staff-photo.jpg"/></a>
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<p>
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Software Freedom Conservancy has had a lot of major successes this year:
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[Conservancy Staff Pic Website/images/conservancystaff.jpg, left aligned with successes]
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<ul>
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<li>We brought four new projects under the protection of the
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Conservancy: <a href="http://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/jul/23/qemu-joins/">QEMU</a>,
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<li>We brought four new projects under the protection of
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Conservancy: <a href="/news/2015/jul/23/qemu-joins/">QEMU</a>,
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the generic machine emulator and
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virtualizer, <a href="https://www.bro.org/">The Bro Network Security
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Monitor</a>, the <a href="http://www.godotengine.org/">Godot Game Engine</a>,
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and <a href="http://outreachy.org">Outreachy</a>, a program dedicated to
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helping people from underrepresented groups get involved in free and open
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source software. We also worked with the Debian community to launch
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the <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/aug/17/debian/">Debian
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the <a href="/news/2015/aug/17/debian/">Debian
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Copyright Aggregation Project</a> at their request.</li>
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<li>We <a href="http://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/mar/05/vmware-lawsuit/">supported
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<li>We <a href="/news/2015/mar/05/vmware-lawsuit/">supported
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the lawsuit</a> Christoph Hellwig has brought against VMware in Germany, the
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first case on derivative works and the GPL.</li>
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<li>We fought for
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and <a href="http://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/oct/27/DMCA-win/">successfully
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and <a href="/news/2015/oct/27/DMCA-win/">successfully
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earned an exemption from the Library of Congress in the DMCA review
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process</a> to legally permit circumvention of encryption on Smart TVs,
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ensuring that you are free to hack on the devices that you legally own. </li>
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<li>We collaborated with the <a href="https://fsf.org/">Free Software
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Foundation</a> to publish
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the <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/linux-compliance/principles.html">Principles
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the <a href="/copyleft-compliance/principles.html">Principles
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of Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement</a>, establishing community norms for
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enforcing the GPL in the public's interest, which have
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already been <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/linux-compliance/principles.kr.html">translated
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already been <a href="/copyleft-compliance/principles.kr.html">translated
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into Korean</a>.</li>
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<li>Along with FSF, we
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helped <a href="http://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/jul/15/ubuntu-ip-policy/">Canonical,
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helped <a href="/news/2015/jul/15/ubuntu-ip-policy/">Canonical,
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Ltd. achieve compliance in its "Intellectual Property" Policy</a>, while
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pointing out that the policy fails to address important software freedom
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issues.</li>
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the GPL, seeking non-litigious resolutions.</li>
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<li>We participated in the process
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of <a href="http://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/oct/14/FCC-comment/">telling
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of <a href="/news/2015/oct/14/FCC-comment/">telling
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the FCC to fix its proposed rules</a> restricting third-party modification of
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firmware in wireless devices.
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<li>We processed and paid 116 reimbursement requests individuals doing work
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<li>We processed and paid 116 reimbursement requests to individuals doing work
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around the globe advocating for their free and open source software
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projects at conferences and other venues.</li>
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<li>We gave keynotes
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at <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2015/aug/17/debian/">DebConf</a>, <a href="https://archive.fosdem.org/2015/schedule/event/identity_crisis/">FOSDEM</a>, <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2015/jul/14/FISL16/">FISL</>, <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/mar/31/libreplanet/">LibrePlanet</a>, <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2015/sep/30/linaro-keynote/">Linaro
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Connect</a>, and participated in many conferences more all over the world; we also
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at <a href="/blog/2015/aug/17/debian/">DebConf</a>, <a href="https://archive.fosdem.org/2015/schedule/event/identity_crisis/">FOSDEM</a>, <a href="/blog/2015/jul/14/FISL16/">FISL</>, <a href="/news/2015/mar/31/libreplanet/">LibrePlanet</a>, <a href="/blog/2015/sep/30/linaro-keynote/">Linaro
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Connect</a>, and participated in many more conferences all over the world; we also
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shared our expertise in initiatives
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like <a href="https://copyleft.org/">copyleft.org</a>. We participated in
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interviews and <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/blog/">blogposts</a>, and
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interviews and <a href="/blog/">blogposts</a>, and
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Bradley and Karen published episodes of <a href="http://faif.us/">Free as in
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Freedom</a>, dedicated to discussing the important issues in software
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freedom.</li>
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</ul>
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</p>
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<p>And we did <strong>all of this</strong> with <strong>only three full time employees</strong>.</p>
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<p>We are focused on the most important ethical issues in software
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software.</p>
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<p>We undertake these critical programs because they are essential to the
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future of technology. We do them because they are right. <b>But we cannot do
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them without you</b>. If we do not meet our fundraising goals, we will be
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future of technology. We do them because they are right. <strong>But we cannot do
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them without you</strong>. If we do not meet our fundraising goals, we will be
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forced to radically restructure.</p>
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<p>Our fiscal sponsorship model is not financially self-sustaining by itself: we cannot
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afford even one staff member and basic overhead with the revenue we take in
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from our projects. In order to effectively continue to serve our member
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projects, we need 750 Supporters. If you use or care about
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our <a href="http://sfconservancy.org/members/current/">member projects</a>,
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our <a href="/members/current/">member projects</a>,
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which include some of the most widely used free software, you can help them
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all by <a href="http://sfconservancy.org/supporter/">signing up as a
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all by <a href="#donate-box" class="donate-now">signing up as a
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Supporter today</a>.</p>
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<h4>Fighting for the GPL</h4>
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[GPL copyheart pic, right aligned with following text on left]
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<a href="/img/gpl-heart.png"><img class="appeal-right" src="/img/gpl-heart.png"/></a>
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<p>Many consider our GPL compliance and enforcement controversial. We don't
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think it is: we stand up for
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the GPL at the request of the Linux kernel community, the Debian community,
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and our member projects. Most recently, that has resulted in our funding
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of the <a href="http://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/mar/05/vmware-lawsuit/">suit
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of the <a href="/news/2015/mar/05/vmware-lawsuit/">suit
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against VMware</a>, which is the first lawsuit on derivative works and the
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GPL. While this work is extremely important to the continued long-term
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success of software freedom and copyleft not to mention in the long term
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this work because we think that it is good for everyone in the long run,
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because we know it is the right thing to do, and because we know that we are
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in the best position to do it. But that's not enough — you have to think it's
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right too and <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/">show us by
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right too and <a href="#donate-box" class="donate-now">show us by
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becoming a Supporter now</a>.</p>
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<img alt="*** The Conservancy T-Shirt that Supporters Receive ***" class="appeal-left" src="/img/conservancy-t-shirt.jpg"/>
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<h4>It's up to you</h4>
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<p>We have raised enough money to continue the VMware case, but our overall
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enforcement work needs additional support to be able to continue. As we
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state in
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the <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/linux-compliance/principles.html">Principles
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the <a href="/copyleft-compliance/principles.html">Principles
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of Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement</a>, we cannot prioritize profit in
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these actions without compromising on the end goals of that work which is to
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help companies become free and open source software users and contributors.
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because of our enforcement work. Continuing this work without individual
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support is no longer possible.</p>
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<p>As a result, we need 2500 Supporters in order to maintain the staff and
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<p>As a result, we need 2,500 Supporters in order to maintain the staff and
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resources in the organization to properly undertake enforcement. We hope you
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will <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/">sign up a Supporter</a>
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will <a href="#donate-box" class="donate-now">sign up as a Supporter</a>
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to help us achieve this. If we don't reach our goal, we will have no choice
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but to hibernate enforcement until we have the resources to pick it up
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properly at some point in the future.</p>
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<p>If you care about the
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GPL, <a href="https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/">help us meet our goal</a>
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GPL, <a href="#donate-box" class="donate-now">help us meet our goal</a>
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so we can stand up for the GPL together.</p>
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<img class="appeal-footer" alt="*" src="/img/conservancy-supporter-heart.png"/>
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<p>Please <a href="#donate-box" class="donate-now">join our Supporter program</a> and spread software freedom!</p>
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