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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Key people
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Executive Director: Karen Sandler President: Bradley M. Kuhn |
| Website | sfconservancy |
The Software Freedom Conservancy is an organization that provides a non-profit home and infrastructure for free/open source software projects.[1][2] Conservancy was established in 2006.[3][4] As of April 2014, Conservancy had 30 member projects, including Boost, BusyBox, Git, Inkscape, Samba, Sugar Labs and Wine.[5] In October 2010, Conservancy hired its first Executive Director, Bradley M. Kuhn[6] and a year later, its first General Counsel, Tony Sebro.[7] In March 2014, Conservancy appointed Karen Sandler as its Executive Director, with Bradley M. Kuhn taking on the role as Distinguished Technologist.[8][9]
Conservancy has also coordinated GPL compliance and enforcement actions, primarily for the BusyBox project.[10] In May 2012, Conservancy took on GPL compliance and enforcement for several other member projects, and for a number of individual Linux kernel developers.[11][12]
Directors[edit]
As of October 2013, Conservancy's directors were:[13][14]
- Jeremy Allison
- Peter T. Brown (Treasurer)
- Loïc Dachary
- Mark Galassi (Vice President)
- Bradley M. Kuhn (President and Chair)
- Mike Linksvayer
- Stormy Peters
Member projects[edit]
The following projects are members of the Software Freedom Conservancy:[5]
- ArgoUML
- Bongo
- Boost
- Buildbot
- BusyBox
- Darcs
- Evergreen[15]
- Foresight Linux
- Gevent[16][17]
- Git[18]
- GPL Compliance Project for Linux Developers
- Inkscape
- Kallithea
- K-3D
- Kohana
- Libbraille
- LuxRender
- Mercurial
- Metalink[19]
- OpenChange
- OpenTripPlanner
- phpMyAdmin
- PyPy
- SWIG
- Samba
- Selenium
- Squeak
- Sugar Labs
- SurveyOS
- Twisted
- Wine
- uClibc
See also[edit]
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- Apache Software Foundation (ASF)
- Free Software Foundation (FSF)
- Open Source Initiative (OSI)
- Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC)
- Software in the Public Interest (SPI)
References[edit]
- ^ "Overview - Software Freedom Conservancy". Retrieved 2015-02-02.
- ^ Schwartz, Randal; Lynch, Dan (22 June 2011). "FLOSS Weekly 171: Software Freedom Conservancy". TWiT.tv. TWiT LLC.
- ^ ScuttleMonkey (2006-04-03). "New Conservancy Offers Gratis Services to FOSS". Slashdot. Retrieved 2008-07-05.
- ^ "Mozilla Grants: Software Freedom Conservancy". Mozilla.org. Mozilla Foundation. Retrieved 20 August 2011.
- ^ a b "Current Member Projects - Software Freedom Conservancy". Retrieved 2015-02-02.
- ^ "Software Freedom Conservancy Appoints Full-Time Executive Director". 4 October 2010.
- ^ "Tony Sebro Joins Conservancy as General Counsel". 2011-09-30. Retrieved 2011-10-07.
- ^ "Karen Sandler joins Conservancy's Management Team". 2014-03-31. Retrieved 2014-04-17.
- ^ Bhati, Monika (2014-04-01). "Karen Sandler resigns as GNOME Foundation’s executive director". Muktware. Retrieved 2014-04-17.
- ^ Simon Phipps (2012-06-01). "Why the GPL licensing cops are the good guys". Infoworld. Retrieved 2012-06-03.
- ^ Brian Proffitt (2012-05-29). "Linux kernel devs, Samba join GPL compliance effort". IT World. Retrieved 2012-05-30.
- ^ "Conservancy Projects Launch Coordinated Free Software Compliance Efforts". Software Freedom Conservancy. 2012-05-29. Retrieved 2012-05-30.
- ^ "Directors: Software Freedom Conservancy". Retrieved 2013-10-13.
- ^ "Officers - Software Freedom Conservancy". Retrieved 2013-10-13.
- ^ Brockmeier, Joe 'Zonker' (16 June 2011). "Evergreen Joins the Software Freedom Conservancy". Linux.com.
- ^ Brockmeier, Joe (18 January 2011). "Software Freedom Conservancy adds 25th member project: Things looking bright for Conservancy". Network World. IDG Communications, Inc.
- ^ Brockmeier, Joe (18 January 2011). "Software Freedom Conservancy adds 25th member project". Dissociated Press.
- ^ "Git and The Software Freedom Conservancy". Git. Retrieved 20 August 2011.
- ^ "Metalink Joins the Software Freedom Conservancy". Retrieved 2013-02-27.
