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Free Software gives everybody the rights to use, understand, adapt, and share software. These rights help support other fundamental rights like freedom of speech, freedom of press, and privacy. <a class="learn-more" href="/freesoftware/index.en.html">Learn more...</a> </p> </div> <div class="press"> <div class="column"><div class="row"> <div class="image community"><a href="/news/2025/news-20250217-01.en.html"><img src="https://pics.fsfe.org/uploads/original/71/14/f08c28c51d8623c12bef20b9deea.jpg" alt="A computer with lines of code" title="A computer with lines of code"></a></div> <div class="text"> <h3><a href="/news/2025/news-20250217-01.en.html">Legal Corner: MIA or Dead Contributors - Does It Matter For Your Software Project?</a></h3> <p class="tag">Community</p> <p> If your software project operates on multiple contributions, and a contributor becomes uncontactable or passes away, this can become an issue in certain situations. Here we’ll discuss when a missing or deceased contributor affects your software project, and what options you have. <a class="learn-more" href="/news/2025/news-20250217-01.en.html"></a></p> </div> </div></div> <div class="column"><div class="row"> <div class="image podcast"><a href="/news/podcast/episode-30.en.html"><img src="https://pics.fsfe.org/uploads/medium/96/7e/3778ccdd2423d7ca9dfa3c95e0e4.png" alt="Software Freedom Podcast illustration: a blue gradient background with the three starts from the FSFE logo in red and the words Software Freedom Podcast." title="Software Freedom Podcast illustration: a blue gradient background with the three starts from the FSFE logo in red and the words Software Freedom Podcast."></a></div> <div class="text"> <h3><a href="/news/podcast/episode-30.en.html">SFP#30: The App Fair Project with Marc Prud'hommeaux</a></h3> <p class="tag">Software Freedom Podcast</p> <p>At FOSDEM, Bonnie Mehring and Marc Prud'hommeaux met to talk about Marc's Free Software initiative, The App Fair Project. 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