What is GNU? GNU is an operating system that is free software—that is, it respects users' freedom. The GNU operating system consists of GNU packages (prog…

Free software, free society, free education! We can only learn in freedom if the software we use is free. Your donation helps us bring free software to le…

Consider the presence of software in your life and how so much of what we do depends upon the works of others. This is why the freedom to share is at the …

Consider the presence of software in your life and how so much of what we do depends upon the works of others. This is why the freedom to share is at the …

The Digital Library of the Commons defines “commons” as “a general term for shared resources in which each stakeholder has an equal interest”. The FOSS co…

Free software or libre software [1] [2] is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to st…

On January 13th, 2020, the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) filed a brief amicus curiae in Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc. before the United States S…

Staff Eben Moglen | President and Executive Director Professor Moglen began building software as a professional programmer at age 13. He worked as a desi…

The Tablix project has been inactive since around 2009. All content regarding the project has been archived in a read-only form. The author's blog is stil…

Consider the presence of software in your life and how so much of what we do depends upon the works of others. This is why the freedom to share is at the …

About Paint.NET is image and photo editing software for PCs that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for la…

GNOME: The Free Software Desktop Project 📣 Gnomedesktop.org is pleased to announce that we have merged our websites and expertise with the fun team at em…

Featured Publications Automotive Software Governance and Copyleft Whitepaper by Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical, Ltd., and Eben Moglen, Professor of …

“Free software” means software that respects users' freedom and community. Roughly, it means that the users have the freedom to run, copy, distribute, stu…

Published software should be free software . To make it free software, you need to release it under a free software license. We normally use the GNU Gener…

Consider the presence of software in your life and how so much of what we do depends upon the works of others. This is why the freedom to share is at the …

Selling Free Software Many people believe that the spirit of the GNU Project is that you should not charge money for distributing copies of software, or …

What is Free Software? “Free software” means software that respects users' freedom and community. Roughly, it means that the users have the freedom to ru…

A free and open-source office suite. It uses the international standard OpenDocument file format (ODF) as it's native format to save documents. It also s…

A: Debian-legal is a Debian mailing list for the discussion of legal questions related to Debian, including in particular whether some package or prospect…

The opinions offered here are my own. I am not expressing the views of any SFLC clients, the Free Software Foundation, or Richard M. Stallman. There has b…

From its founding until the mid-1990s, FSF's funds were mostly used to employ software developers to write free software for the GNU Project . Since the m…

“While SFLC’s lawsuits filed on behalf of Busybox are the most visible recent enforcement actions, the vast majority of our enforcement work is conducted …

Wavbreaker Wavbreaker This application's purpose in life is to take a wave file and break it up into multiple wave files. It makes a clean break at the c…

Free software is software that comes with permission for anyone to use, copy, and/or distribute, either verbatim or with modifications, either gratis or f…

News Today the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC), provider of pro-bono legal services to non-profit developers and distributors of free and open source …

Consider the presence of software in your life and how so much of what we do depends upon the works of others. This is why the freedom to share is at the …

Since 1983, the Free Software Movement has campaigned for computer users' freedom—for users to control the software they use, rather than vice versa. When…

While free software by any other name would give you the same freedom, it makes a big difference which name we use: different words convey different ideas…

Consider the presence of software in your life and how so much of what we do depends upon the works of others. This is why the freedom to share is at the …

Free Software Is Even More Important Now Since 1983, the Free Software Movement has campaigned for computer users' freedom—for users to control the softw…

Free Windows Softwares There are many reasons you may have changed MAC Address of your network adapter and after sometime you wanted to reset it to defau…

Published software should be free software. To make it free software, you need to release it under a free software license. We normally use the GNU Gener…

The Berne Convention respects the issue of public domain, insofar as something definitely in the public domain in one country doesn't fall under copyright…

Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. Close banner Thank you so much for helping us close out…

A software updater is a program you install on your computer to help you keep all your other software updated to their latest versions. Install one of the…

The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) today announced that it has filed two more copyright infringement lawsuits on behalf of its clients, two principal …

The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) today announced that it has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Verizon Communications, Inc. on behalf o…

The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) today announced that it has filed the first ever U.S. copyright infringement lawsuit based on a violation of the GN…

7-Zip is free software with open source . The most of the code is under the GNU LGPL license. Some parts of the code are under the BSD 3-clause License. A…

Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. Close banner Thank you so much for helping us close out…

Consider the presence of software in your life and how so much of what we do depends upon the works of others. This is why the freedom to share is at the …

The license terms on the Linux kernel are those of GPLv2. This is the unanimous consensus of the extensive community of copyright holders. No other terms,…

Last Thursday, Novell and Microsoft announced a new collaborative effort involving both licensing and technology. The Software Freedom Law Center has been…

Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. Close banner Thank you so much for helping us close out…

The US Internal Revenue Service has ushered in a new and much more favorable treatment for free software projects seeking to have 501c3 tax exempt non-pro…

R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It compiles and runs on a wide variety of UNIX platforms, Windows and MacOS. To d…

It is a great personal pleasure for me to offer these brief remarks by way of preface to a work composed by my colleagues at the Software Freedom Law Cent…

Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. Close banner Thank you so much for helping us close out…

The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) and High-Gain Antennas today jointly announced that an agreement has been reached to dismiss the GPL enforcement la…

The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) has examined the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) rules, which go into effect today , governing Software De…

Software development, but free! NON-PROFIT Codeberg is not run by a company, but is in the hands of its users – via the non-profit organization Codeberg …

About Free Software Free software is a matter of freedom: people should be free to use software in all the ways that are socially useful. Software differ…

The point of this directory is to show by examples that the initial injustice of proprietary software often leads to further injustices: malicious functi…

This is a guide to effective compliance with the GNU General Public License (GPL) and related licenses. In accordance with the Software Freedom Law Center…

Both Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) and Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) are committed to defending and expanding software freedom and the right…

Blog De-Chroming the Acer c720 Chromebook By Ian Sullivan | December 1, 2014 What is De-Chroming? This talk is an instructional companion to the SFLC @ 1…

In the white paper, SFLC explains why the FCC’s new rules do not restrict independent development and distribution of FOSS made for use in SDR devices. Th…

The Software Freedom Law Center submitted comments yesterday to the U.S. Copyright Office proposing an exemption from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act…

The subject matter we're going to talk about is variously named, and the words have some resonances of importance. I'm going to use the phrase "Free Softw…

Whether claims to computer-implemented inventions—including claims to systems and machines, processes, and items of manufacture—are directed to patent-eli…

The OpenUDC softwares are designed to manage a free money system as described by the TRM (Théorie Relative de la Monnaie), that means a money system where…

The Free Software Foundation recommends and endorses these GNU/Linux distros, although we do not try to judge or compare them based on any criterion other…

Nearly every free software project includes two types of legal information with its source code: the license(s) of the code and the copyright notices of c…

The SFLC is a non-profit law firm established in 2005 to provide pro-bono legal services to Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) developers. The suit was …

The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) has prepared this document for developers who wish to incorporate permissive-licensed 1 code into GPL’d projects. 2…

F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy to browse, ins…

Understanding how copyright law applies to software is essential to making informed decisions about how to develop and distribute code. The first step of …

ChromaSurf is a free software package that helps users get up and running faster than ever. A simplified workflow and easy access to features makes gettin…

Thank you. it's a pleasure to be here, and to see so many friends. I'm very grateful to David for the invitation, it's a privilege to be here. I'm going t…

Google recently disclosed a draft cross-license under which patents related to the VP8 video compression format—held by Google, MPEG-LA, and several other…

The WordPress open source, free software project is the community behind the application you know and love. Powered by volunteers around the world, these …

Consider the presence of software in your life and how so much of what we do depends upon the works of others. This is why the freedom to share is at the …

The Certification Requirements define (on page 116) a “custom” secure boot mode, in which a physically present user can add signatures for alternative ope…

Here are some highlights of the talk Eben gave on Freedom in the Cloud at the New York ISOC branch meeting last Friday, February 2. A full transcript is a…

Killed by Code: Software Transparency in Implantable Medical Devices will be presented at OSCON 2010 on July 23. It addresses the potentially fatal risk o…

Let Free File do the hard work for you with brand-name software or online Fillable Forms. You can prepare and e-file your federal return for free. Partici…

What is GNU? GNU is an operating system that is free software—that is, it respects users' freedom. The GNU operating system consists of GNU packages (prog…

Free software, free society, free education! We can only learn in freedom if the software we use is free. Your donation helps us bring free software to le…

Consider the presence of software in your life and how so much of what we do depends upon the works of others. This is why the freedom to share is at the …

Consider the presence of software in your life and how so much of what we do depends upon the works of others. This is why the freedom to share is at the …

The Digital Library of the Commons defines “commons” as “a general term for shared resources in which each stakeholder has an equal interest”. The FOSS co…

Free software or libre software [1] [2] is computer software distributed under terms that allow users to run the software for any purpose as well as to st…

What are the latest things happening for the campaigns team? Check out the FSF Community Blog, maintained by the campaigns team. Have an idea for somethin…

On January 13th, 2020, the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) filed a brief amicus curiae in Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc. before the United States S…

Staff Eben Moglen | President and Executive Director Professor Moglen began building software as a professional programmer at age 13. He worked as a desi…

The Tablix project has been inactive since around 2009. All content regarding the project has been archived in a read-only form. The author's blog is stil…

Consider the presence of software in your life and how so much of what we do depends upon the works of others. This is why the freedom to share is at the …

About Paint.NET is image and photo editing software for PCs that run Windows. It features an intuitive and innovative user interface with support for la…

GNOME: The Free Software Desktop Project 📣 Gnomedesktop.org is pleased to announce that we have merged our websites and expertise with the fun team at em…

Featured Publications Automotive Software Governance and Copyleft Whitepaper by Mark Shuttleworth, CEO of Canonical, Ltd., and Eben Moglen, Professor of …

“Free software” means software that respects users' freedom and community. Roughly, it means that the users have the freedom to run, copy, distribute, stu…

Published software should be free software . To make it free software, you need to release it under a free software license. We normally use the GNU Gener…

Consider the presence of software in your life and how so much of what we do depends upon the works of others. This is why the freedom to share is at the …

Selling Free Software Many people believe that the spirit of the GNU Project is that you should not charge money for distributing copies of software, or …

What is Free Software? “Free software” means software that respects users' freedom and community. Roughly, it means that the users have the freedom to ru…

A free and open-source office suite. It uses the international standard OpenDocument file format (ODF) as it's native format to save documents. It also s…

A: Debian-legal is a Debian mailing list for the discussion of legal questions related to Debian, including in particular whether some package or prospect…

The opinions offered here are my own. I am not expressing the views of any SFLC clients, the Free Software Foundation, or Richard M. Stallman. There has b…

From its founding until the mid-1990s, FSF's funds were mostly used to employ software developers to write free software for the GNU Project . Since the m…

“While SFLC’s lawsuits filed on behalf of Busybox are the most visible recent enforcement actions, the vast majority of our enforcement work is conducted …

Wavbreaker Wavbreaker This application's purpose in life is to take a wave file and break it up into multiple wave files. It makes a clean break at the c…

Free software is software that comes with permission for anyone to use, copy, and/or distribute, either verbatim or with modifications, either gratis or f…

News Today the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC), provider of pro-bono legal services to non-profit developers and distributors of free and open source …

Consider the presence of software in your life and how so much of what we do depends upon the works of others. This is why the freedom to share is at the …

Since 1983, the Free Software Movement has campaigned for computer users' freedom—for users to control the software they use, rather than vice versa. When…

While free software by any other name would give you the same freedom, it makes a big difference which name we use: different words convey different ideas…

Consider the presence of software in your life and how so much of what we do depends upon the works of others. This is why the freedom to share is at the …

Free Software Is Even More Important Now Since 1983, the Free Software Movement has campaigned for computer users' freedom—for users to control the softw…

Free Windows Softwares There are many reasons you may have changed MAC Address of your network adapter and after sometime you wanted to reset it to defau…

Published software should be free software. To make it free software, you need to release it under a free software license. We normally use the GNU Gener…

The Berne Convention respects the issue of public domain, insofar as something definitely in the public domain in one country doesn't fall under copyright…

Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. Close banner Thank you so much for helping us close out…

A software updater is a program you install on your computer to help you keep all your other software updated to their latest versions. Install one of the…

The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) today announced that it has filed two more copyright infringement lawsuits on behalf of its clients, two principal …

The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) today announced that it has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Verizon Communications, Inc. on behalf o…

The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) today announced that it has filed the first ever U.S. copyright infringement lawsuit based on a violation of the GN…

7-Zip is free software with open source . The most of the code is under the GNU LGPL license. Some parts of the code are under the BSD 3-clause License. A…

Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. Close banner Thank you so much for helping us close out…

Consider the presence of software in your life and how so much of what we do depends upon the works of others. This is why the freedom to share is at the …

The license terms on the Linux kernel are those of GPLv2. This is the unanimous consensus of the extensive community of copyright holders. No other terms,…

Last Thursday, Novell and Microsoft announced a new collaborative effort involving both licensing and technology. The Software Freedom Law Center has been…

Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. Close banner Thank you so much for helping us close out…

The US Internal Revenue Service has ushered in a new and much more favorable treatment for free software projects seeking to have 501c3 tax exempt non-pro…

R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It compiles and runs on a wide variety of UNIX platforms, Windows and MacOS. To d…

It is a great personal pleasure for me to offer these brief remarks by way of preface to a work composed by my colleagues at the Software Freedom Law Cent…

Due to a planned power outage on Friday, 1/14, between 8am-1pm PST, some services may be impacted. Close banner Thank you so much for helping us close out…

The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) and High-Gain Antennas today jointly announced that an agreement has been reached to dismiss the GPL enforcement la…

The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) has examined the Federal Communication Commission’s (FCC) rules, which go into effect today , governing Software De…

Software development, but free! NON-PROFIT Codeberg is not run by a company, but is in the hands of its users – via the non-profit organization Codeberg …

About Free Software Free software is a matter of freedom: people should be free to use software in all the ways that are socially useful. Software differ…

The point of this directory is to show by examples that the initial injustice of proprietary software often leads to further injustices: malicious functi…

This is a guide to effective compliance with the GNU General Public License (GPL) and related licenses. In accordance with the Software Freedom Law Center…

Both Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) and Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) are committed to defending and expanding software freedom and the right…

Blog De-Chroming the Acer c720 Chromebook By Ian Sullivan | December 1, 2014 What is De-Chroming? This talk is an instructional companion to the SFLC @ 1…

In the white paper, SFLC explains why the FCC’s new rules do not restrict independent development and distribution of FOSS made for use in SDR devices. Th…

The Software Freedom Law Center submitted comments yesterday to the U.S. Copyright Office proposing an exemption from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act…

The subject matter we're going to talk about is variously named, and the words have some resonances of importance. I'm going to use the phrase "Free Softw…

Whether claims to computer-implemented inventions—including claims to systems and machines, processes, and items of manufacture—are directed to patent-eli…

The OpenUDC softwares are designed to manage a free money system as described by the TRM (Théorie Relative de la Monnaie), that means a money system where…

The Free Software Foundation recommends and endorses these GNU/Linux distros, although we do not try to judge or compare them based on any criterion other…

Nearly every free software project includes two types of legal information with its source code: the license(s) of the code and the copyright notices of c…

The SFLC is a non-profit law firm established in 2005 to provide pro-bono legal services to Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) developers. The suit was …

The Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) has prepared this document for developers who wish to incorporate permissive-licensed 1 code into GPL’d projects. 2…

F-Droid is an installable catalogue of FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) applications for the Android platform. The client makes it easy to browse, ins…

Understanding how copyright law applies to software is essential to making informed decisions about how to develop and distribute code. The first step of …

ChromaSurf is a free software package that helps users get up and running faster than ever. A simplified workflow and easy access to features makes gettin…

Thank you. it's a pleasure to be here, and to see so many friends. I'm very grateful to David for the invitation, it's a privilege to be here. I'm going t…

Google recently disclosed a draft cross-license under which patents related to the VP8 video compression format—held by Google, MPEG-LA, and several other…

The WordPress open source, free software project is the community behind the application you know and love. Powered by volunteers around the world, these …

Consider the presence of software in your life and how so much of what we do depends upon the works of others. This is why the freedom to share is at the …

The Certification Requirements define (on page 116) a “custom” secure boot mode, in which a physically present user can add signatures for alternative ope…

Here are some highlights of the talk Eben gave on Freedom in the Cloud at the New York ISOC branch meeting last Friday, February 2. A full transcript is a…

Killed by Code: Software Transparency in Implantable Medical Devices will be presented at OSCON 2010 on July 23. It addresses the potentially fatal risk o…

Let Free File do the hard work for you with brand-name software or online Fillable Forms. You can prepare and e-file your federal return for free. Partici…