Software Freedom Conservancy Asks For Supporters

Posted by timothy on Thursday November 26, 2015 @08:11AM from the good-day-for-it dept.

paroneayea writes: Software Freedom Conservancy is asking people to join as supporters to save both their basic work and GPL enforcement. Conservancy is the steward of projects like Samba, Wine, BusyBox, QEMU, Inkscape, Selenium, and many more. Conservancy also does much work around GPL enforcement and needs 2,500 members to join in order to save copyleft compliance work. They list some of the past year's successes, too, including fighting for and successfully earning "an exemption from the Library of Congress in the DMCA review process to legally permit circumvention of encryption on Smart TVs, ensuring that you are free to hack on the devices that you legally own."

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Re:GPL enforcement? I don't want to be involved! by bug1 · 2015-11-26 10:14 · Score: 2, Interesting

The right for somebody to create closed-source derivatives is something that should be protected. Not protecting it is merely the act of taking away freedom.
Your saying your not free unless you have the right to deprive others of freedom...
The same arguments where used to justify slavery.