70 lines
3.8 KiB
HTML
70 lines
3.8 KiB
HTML
{% extends "base_conservancy.html" %}
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{% load cache %}
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{% load humanize %}
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{% block head %}
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<link href="/jquery-ui.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
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<link href="/forms.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
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{% endblock %}
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{% block outercontent %}
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<div class="content-with-donate-sidebar">
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<div id="container">
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<div id="sidebar" class="{% block submenuselection %}other{% endblock %}">
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<h2>What We Do</h2>
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{% include 'submenus/what_we_do_partial.html' %}
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<h2>Our Copyleft {% block category %}Compliance{% endblock %} Projects</h2>
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<ul>
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<li class="AboutCompliance"><a href="/copyleft-compliance/about.html">About</a></li>
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<li class="EnforcementStrategy"><a href="/copyleft-compliance/enforcement-strategy.html">Strategic GPL Enforcement Initiative</a></li>
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<li class="CopyleftPrinciples"><a href="/copyleft-compliance/principles.html">Principles of Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement</a></li>
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<li class="LiberateFirmware"><a href="/copyleft-compliance/firmware-liberation.html">Liberate IoT Firmware via GPL Enforcement</a></li>
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<li class="VMwareLawsuitLinks"><a href="/copyleft-compliance/vmware-lawsuit-links.html">VMware Lawsuit: Summary and Resources</a></li>
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<li class="CopyleftOrg"><a href="https://copyleft.org/">copyleft.org</a></li>
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</ul>
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</div>
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<div id="mainContent">
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{% block content %}
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<h1>What We Do</h1>
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<p>Software Freedom Conservancy is a nonprofit organization
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centered around ethical technology. Our mission is to ensure the
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right to repair, improve and reinstall software. We promote and
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defend these rights through fostering free and open source
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software (FOSS) projects, driving initiatives that actively make
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technology more inclusive, and advancing policy strategies that
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defend FOSS (such as copyleft).</p>
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<p>Our work on <a href="/copyleft-compliance/">copyleft
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compliance</a>, including enforcement of the General Public
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License (GPL), is world-renowned. We believe fundamentally that
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copyleft licenses are the best tool available today to empower
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users and consumers to take control of their electronic devices,
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liberate themselves from planned obsolesce, and join a free market
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where they choose who provides their software.</p>
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<p>We also believe that FOSS functions best when built by a
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egalitarian community in which hobbyists, volunteers, and
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individuals stand on equal footing with companies and large
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organizations. Vendor neutrality is simply not enough — as
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that merely makes companies equal to each other and leaves
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hobbyists and volunteers out in the cold. To foster FOSS creation
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in this manner, we are the <a href="/projects/">non-profit home to
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dozens of member projects and initiatives</a> whom we assist to
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remain transparent and prioritize the public good in their
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development of FOSS.</p>
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<p>Furthermore, diversity and inclusion is a critical component to
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egalitarian FOSS communities. We acknowledge that FOSS
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communities historically have struggled on these fronts and the
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myth of “pure meritocracy” so popular in FOSS circles
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willfully ignores the systemic biases in our societies and
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cultures. We are thus the proud home of
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the <a href="https://outreachy.org/">Outreachy initiative</a> that
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offers paid internships in FOSS for contributors who have faced
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systemic bias in their efforts to join the FOSS community.<p>
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{% endblock %}
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</div>
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</div>
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{% endblock %}
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