Software Freedom Conservancy
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| Founded | April 7, 2006 |
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| Type | 501(c)(3) |
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| Fields | Software |
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Karen Sandler (executive director) Bradley M. Kuhn (president) |
| Website | sfconservancy |
The Software Freedom Conservancy is an organization that provides a non-profit home and infrastructure for free/open source software projects, established in 2006.
Conservancy was established in 2006.
In 2007 Conservancy started coordinated GPL compliance and enforcement actions, primarily for the BusyBox project, see BusyBox GPL lawsuits. Later, the BusyBox maintainer Rob Landley who initially supported these lawsuits, regretted his decision and criticized the suing practice of the SFC.
In October 2010, Conservancy hired its first Executive Director, Bradley M. Kuhn and a year later, its first General Counsel, Tony Sebro. In May 2012, Conservancy took on GPL compliance and enforcement for several other member projects, and for a number of individual Linux kernel developers. In March 2014, Conservancy appointed Karen Sandler as its Executive Director, with Bradley M. Kuhn taking on the role as Distinguished Technologist.
In February 2015, the Outreachy program (formerly the Free and Open Source Software Program for Women) announced that it was moving from The GNOME Project to become part of Conservancy.
As of July 2015, Conservancy had 30 member projects, including QEMU, Boost, BusyBox, Git, Inkscape, Samba, Sugar Labs and Wine.
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