Copyleft Compliance: rewrite about page in light of strategic plan
The copyleft-compliance/about.html page doubles as the introduction page to our compliance work. This is a start at the rewrite of that page to link off to the new items and have new text to inspire interest in the project.
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<h1 id="ourwork">Conservancy's Copyleft Compliance Projects</h1>
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<p>Free and open source software is
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everywhere and in everything; yet our software freedom is constantly
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eroded. With the help of its volunteers, <a href="/members/current/">member projects</a>, and <a href="/about/staff/">staff</a>,
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Conservancy stands up for users' software freedom via its copyleft compliance work.</p>
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<p>As existing donors and supporters know, the Software Freedom Conservancy
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is a 501(c)(3) non-profit charity registered in New York, and Conservancy
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helps people take control of their computing by growing the software
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freedom movement, supporting community-driven alternatives to proprietary
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software, and defending free software with practical initiatives.
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Conservancy accomplishes these goals with various initiatives, including
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defending and upholding the rights of software users and consumers under
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copyleft licenses, such as the GPL.</p>
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<p>Conservancy engages in copyleft compliance work in two different ways: by acting directly
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on behalf of <a href="/projects/">Conservancy's Member Projects</a> who request
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Free and Open Source License compliance efforts, and for
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specific, targeted member projects for communities of developers.</p>
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<p>Free and open source software (FOSS) is everywhere and in everything; yet
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our software freedom is constantly eroded. With the help of its
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volunteers, <a href="/members/current/">member projects</a>,
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and <a href="/about/staff/">staff</a>, Conservancy stands up for users'
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software freedom via its copyleft compliance work.</p>
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<p>Conservancy's Copyleft Compliance Projects are run in a collaborative manner with
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the project developers. All copyright holders involved have the opportunity
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to give input and guidance on Conservancy's strategy in dealing with
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compliance issues. Thus, all Conservancy's compliance matter have full
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support of relevant copyright holders.</p>
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<p>Conservancy's primary work in copyleft compliance currently focuses on
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our <a href="/copyleft-compliance/enforcement-strategy.html">Strategic GPL
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Enforcement Initiative</a>. This initiative, launched in August 2020,
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represents the culmination of nearly 15 years of compliance work of
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Conservancy spanning ten different fiscally sponsored projects, past lawsuits
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against more than a dozen defendants, and hundreds of non-litigation
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compliance actions.</p>
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<p>In addition to taking feedback internally from those who participate as
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part of the coalitions described below, Conservancy also welcomes feedback
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and discussion with the general public about our copyleft compliance
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efforts. This discussion happens on
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Conservancy's <a href="https://lists.sfconservancy.org/mailman/listinfo/principles-discuss">principles-discuss</a>
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mailing list, which is named
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for <a href="/copyleft-compliance/principles.html">Principles of
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Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement</a> which Conservancy follows in all our
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copyleft compliance.</p>
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<p>For these many years, Conservancy has always given the benefit of the
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doubt to companies who exploited our good nature and ultimately simply
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ignore the rights of users and consumers. In that time, the compliance
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industrial complex has risen to a multi-million-dollar industry —
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selling (mostly proprietary) products, services, and consulting to
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companies. Yet, these compliance efforts ignore consistently the most
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essential promise of copyleft — the complete, Corresponding Source
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and "the scripts used to control compilation and installation of the
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executable".</p>
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<h2 id="projects">Compliance Project For Our Fiscally Sponsored Projects</h2>
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<p>We encourage our supporters and software freedom enthusiasts everywhere to
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<a href="/copyleft-compliance/enforcement-strategy.html">read our detailed
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strategic plan for GPL enforcement</a> and its companion
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project, <a href="/copyleft-compliance/firmware-liberation.html">Our
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Firmware Liberation Project</a>.</p>
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<h2 id="projects">Compliance Relationship to Fiscally Sponsored Projects</h2>
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<p>Historically, Conservancy was well-known for its ongoing license
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compliance efforts on behalf of its BusyBox member project. Today, Conservancy
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does semi-regular compliance work for its BusyBox, Evergreen, Git, Inkscape, Mercurial,
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Samba, Sugar Labs, QEMU and Wine member projects. If you are a copyright holder
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in any member project of Conservancy, please contact the project's leadership committtee,
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compliance efforts on behalf of its BusyBox member project. Today,
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Conservancy does semi-regular compliance work for its BusyBox, Git, Inkscape,
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Mercurial, Samba, QEMU and Wine member projects. If you are a copyright
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holder in any member project of Conservancy, please contact the project's
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leadership committtee,
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via <a href="mailto:PROJECTNAME@sfconservancy.org"><PROJECTNAME@sfconservancy.org></a>
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for more information on getting involved in compliance efforts in that project.
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for more information on getting involved in compliance efforts in that
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project.
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</p>
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<h2 id="linux">GPL Compliance Project For Linux Developers</h2>
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with <a href="mailto:linux-services@sfconservancy.org"><linux-services@sfconservancy.org></a>
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first.</p>
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<h2 id="debian">The Debian Copyright Aggregation Project</h2>
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<p>In August 2015, <a href="/news/2015/aug/17/debian/">Conservancy announced the Debian Copyright Aggregation
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<p>However, the Guide is admittedly a large document, so for those who are
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interested in a short summary of describing how Conservancy handles GPL
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enforcement and compliance
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work, <a href="/blog/2012/feb/01/gpl-enforcement/">this
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blog post outlining the compliance process</a> is likely the best source.</p>
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work, <a href="/blog/2012/feb/01/gpl-enforcement/">this blog post outlining
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the compliance process</a> is likely the best source.</p>
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<h2 id="reporting">Reporting GPL Violations To Us</h2>
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<p>If you are aware of a license violation or compliance issue regarding
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Debian, Linux, or
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any <a href="/members/current/">Conservancy member
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project</a> (— in particular BusyBox, Evergreen, Inkscape, Mercurial,
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Debian, Linux, or any <a href="/members/current/">Conservancy member
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project</a> (— in particular BusyBox, Git, Inkscape, Mercurial,
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Samba, Sugar Labs, or Wine),
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please <a href="mailto:compliance@sfconservancy.org">contact us by email at
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<compliance@sfconservancy.org></a>.</p>
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<compliance@sfconservancy.org></a>.</p>
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<!--- FIXME: bkuhn is rewriting this blog post fresh the weekend of --
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2020-07-18 so we need not link to ebb.org anymore when we roll out
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<p>If you think you've found a GPL violation, we encourage you to
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read <a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2009/11/08/gpl-enforcement.html">this
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personal blog post by our Distinguished Technologist, Bradley M. Kuhn</a>,
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about good practices in discovering and reporting GPL violations. (We'd
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also like someone to convert the text of that blog post into a patch for
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personal blog post by our Policy Fellow, Bradley M. Kuhn</a>, about good
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practices in discovering and reporting GPL violations. (We'd also like
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someone to convert the text of that blog post into a patch for
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<a href="http://compliance.guide">The Compliance Guide on
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copyleft.org</a>; submit it
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via <a href="https://k.copyleft.org/guide/">k.copyleft.org</a>.)</p>
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