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.
Today is an excellent day to give up GitHub, particularly given their disingenuous position regarding the California Artificial Intelligence Transparency Act & its proposed amendments under CA SB 1000.
August 27, 2026
It's that time again... for the triennial DMCA exemptions process! Because of the overreaching restraints the DMCA places on our digital autonomy, the DMCA permits the public to petition to claw back some our right to circumvent software 'access controls' placed upon our devices, which helps restore some rights we have over our technology. In the past we have had success securing digital rights for exploring license violations, jailbreaking TVs and routers, and expanding rights to repair medical devices. This week we applied to renew all of the exemptions we've worked to put in place in the past (and personally, Karen signed on behalf of the group of medical device researchers).
August 12, 2026
July 16, 2026
June 18, 2026
by on August 12, 2026
by on July 3, 2026
by on June 2, 2026
by on May 17, 2026
by on April 16, 2026