Software Freedom Conservancy @conservancy@mastodon.technology

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"Vizio isn’t some wide-eyed teen, randomly copying code they found from GitHub without understanding the implications. This is a multi-billion dollar company that absolutely should know better..."

https://hackaday.com/2021/10/22/vizio-in-hot-water-over-smart-tv-gpl-violations/

Check out what The Verge said in regards to @bkuhn_ebb_org
's recent piece about the AGPL. https://www.theverge.com/2021/10/22/22740354/trump-truth-social-network-spac-mastodon-license-software-freedom-conservancy

Our Policy Fellow @bkuhn_ebb_org
blogs about #Trump's Group violation of the Affero GPL on @joinmastodon
's #Mastodon codebase; Trump's Group has 30 days to comply with the #AGPLv3: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/oct/21/trump-groups-violates-affero-gpl/ #copyleft #GPL

We filed a lawsuit today against Vizio because they fail to fulfill even the basic requirements of the #GPL. You can check out the complete materials here:
https://sfconservancy.org/vizio

If you are interested in more equitable hiring practices, we've just a retrospective of our last hiring!
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/oct/15/equitable-hiring/

✨ Outreachy is hiring a community manager. ✨ You will communicate with @outreachy applicants, interns, and mentors. Open mailbox with raised flag You will work remotely for 30 to 40 hours per week.

Please apply by Oct 31!

https://www.outreachy.org/blog/2021-10-14/hiring-for-an-outreachy-community-manager/

Given @McCoySmith declined to debate @bkuhn_ebb_org on this matter at #ossummit, we're curious how McCoy responds to our points: (a) GPLv2 installation requirements haven't changed since 2003 & (b) don't work the way he says. See: https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/mar/25/install-gplv2/ https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/jul/23/tivoization-and-the-gpl-right-to-install/

As our own executive director @o0karen0o says in the press release, congrats to @OpenSourceOrg and Stefano Maffulli, and also to @baconandcoconut for her work shepherding the process!

https://opensource.org/news/osi-executive-director

Conservancy is looking for a website designer to help us with a new project! We're looking for someone with design experience and familiarity with FOSS tooling. Pay is between 20-60$/hr depending on experience
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2021/sep/07/website-designer-short-opportunity/

So touched by the shout out by Kavita Kapoor and the SustainOSS folks at the end of this interview about Kavita and her work at the Federation of Humanitarian Technologists

https://podcast.sustainoss.org/86

The Institute for Computing in Research https://computinginresearch.org/ has expanded their internships with 6 new interns in Portland, OR! Offering mentoring in scientific computing, they will work with local Oregon academics on projects ranging from computational biology to AI and pure math.
https://sfconservancy.org/news/2021/aug/03/icr-portland/

Projects such as #GCC, #glibc, & gnulib are considering ending #copyright assignment to #FSF. We urge everyone to think carefully what this means for the future of #copyleft, #GPL enforcement, and the software freedom of downstream users. https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/jun/30/who-should-own-foss-copyrights/

If you want to know more about our choice to use XMPP, here's the blog post explaining:
https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/jun/21/xmpp-chat/

You can also join via Matrix as well!
https://matrix.to/#/#xmpp_general_chat.sfconservancy.org:matrix.org

Do not worry if you preferred IRC, we will continue bridging our channel #conservancy on http://irc.libera.chat

We're excited to announce the launch of our new XMPP chat server! Come join us for our weekly chat at:
general@chat.sfconservancy.org

Get to know our new Community Organizer @pono : https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2021/may/18/pono-introduction/

We're so happy to introduce our newest staff member @pono ! Pono is joining us to as a Community Organizer and Nonprofit Problem Solver.

https://sfconservancy.org/news/2021/may/13/welcoming-pono-as-new-staff/

Join today https://copyright.gov/1201/2021/public-hearings/ as one of our attorneys, @copiesofcopies , testifies before Copyright Office regarding our #DMCA exemption request related to #OpenWrt: seeking right to circumvent lock-down on wireless routers. https://sfconservancy.org/news/2020/dec/15/dmca-exemptions-long-form/ has links to written part.

BTW, we're annoyed that USA government refused to provide option to view/hear this w/out proprietary software. We raised this issue, but decided overarching moral imperative is participate for the rights of users despite that.