Until July 17ᵗʰ, we'll direct1 newly initiated Sustainerships & SFC donations to our software right-to-repair work & efforts to resolve Bambu Lab's AGPLv3 violations!
$163,546 raised!
$86,461 to go!

Help us reach this goal so we can dedicate long-term full-time SFC staff on our software right to repair work for 3D printers, & take action on Bambu Lab's AGPLv3 violations!

Software Freedom Conservancy is a nonprofit organization centered around ethical technology. Our mission is to ensure the right to repair, improve and reinstall software. We promote and defend these rights through fostering free and open source software (FOSS) projects, driving initiatives that actively make technology more inclusive, and advancing policy strategies that defend FOSS (such as copyleft). Learn more.

Proprietary Software to Develop FOSS?!? 😲

Read our policy fellow (Bradley Kühn)'s article that explains how the history of the Free Software movement has always included such strategic compromises in service of users' rights.

News

LLM Backed Generative AI Recommendations

June 18, 2026

Today, Software Freedom Conservancy publishes Recommendations When Using LLM-backed Generative AI systems for FOSS Contributions. SFC's Copyleft and Software Right to Repair Team co-drafted these policy recommendations in collaboration with a team of volunteers from the Free Software community. These recommendations include substantial feedback that SFC received in its ongoing public sessions and meetings with SFC member projects.

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Articles

Ethical and Moral Considerations in Proprietary Software Usage

by Bradley M. Kühn on June 2, 2026


Dealing with Incomplete Copyleft Source That Doesn't Correspond

by Bradley M. Kühn on May 17, 2026


AGPLv3§7¶4 Empowers Users to Thwart Badgeware

by Bradley M. Kühn on April 16, 2026


Eternal November — this new influx of users may be better than the last one

by Denver Gingerich on April 15, 2026


What the FCC router ban means for FOSS

by Denver Gingerich on April 2, 2026

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