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45 lines
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{% extends "base_compliance.html" %}
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{% block subtitle %}Copyleft Compliance Projects - {% endblock %}
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{% block submenuselection %}HelpComply{% endblock %}
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{% block content %}
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<h1 id="ourwork">Help Defend Software Freedom and Rights</h1>
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<p>Folks often ask us how they can help us defend the software freedoms and
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rights that copyleft makes possible. There are lots of ways to help and we
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believe that the entire public can help.</p>
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<h2 id="request">Request Source Code</h2>
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<p>All versions of the GPL and LGPL allow companies to make an <em>offer</em>
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for Complete, Corresponding Source (CCS) <em>rather than</em> giving you
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the CCS outright with the product. Sadly, <strong>many</strong>
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companies make an offer with no intention of actually providing that CCS
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to you. As consumers, you have a right to that source code. Look in
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every manual and “Legal Notices” section of every product you
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buy. If you see an offer, follow the instructions and <strong>request
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that CCS</strong>! If you don't get it, or they give you the run-around,
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then <a href="#reporting">report the violation to us</a>!</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 any
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copyleft license, such as the AGPL, GPL or LGPL,
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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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<!--- 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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these changes ... which never happened, still need to do that -->
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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 Policy Fellow, Bradley M. Kuhn</a>, about good
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practices in discovering and reporting GPL violations.</p>
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<h2 id="sustain">Donate to Sustain This Work</h2>
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<p>Finally, Conservancy welcomes <a href="#donate-box"
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class="donate-now">donations</a> in support of our copyleft compliance work,
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and we encourage you to become a <a href="/sustainer/">an official
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Sustainer of Software Freedom Conservancy</a>. </p>
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{% endblock %}
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