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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). <a href="/about" class="orange">Learn more.</a></p> </section> <section class="w-30-ns mh2 pa3 bg-light-blue ba b--gray"> <h2 class="f4 ttu">LGPL win for routers!</h2> <p>SFC funded lawsuit wins rights in Germany! Users of AVM routers in Germany are now able to take advantage of the LGPL software on their routers to allow them to reinstall and reconfigure their FRITZ!Box routers. To read more about the case and why this software right-to-repair is important.</p> <a href="/news/2025/jan/09/avm-copyleft-lawsuit-resolved-with-install" class="f5 dib pa2 ttu b btn-orange">Check it out!</a> </section> </div> <div class="mt3 mh2-ns mb4 flex-ns"> <div class="w-70-ns mh2"> <section class="mh0 pa3 bg-light-blue ba b--gray"> <video style="height: auto;" controls="" poster="/videos/sfc-introduction-video_poster.jpg"> <source src="/videos/sfc-introduction_1080p.mp4" /> <track src="/static/docs/sfc-introduction-vtt-captions.47c4dcbc454e.txt" kind="subtitles" srclang="en" label="English" /> <a href="/videos/sfc-introduction_1080p.mp4"><img src="/videos/sfc-introduction-video_poster.jpg" alt="Software Freedom Conservancy introduction video"></a><br/> <a href="https://youtu.be/yCCxMfW0LTM">(watch on Youtube)</a> </video> </section> <section class="mv3 ph2"> <h2 class="f4 mt0 mb2 ttu"> <a href="/news/" class="dark-gray">News</a></h2> <div class="press-release"> <h3 class="clear" ><a href="/news/2025/mar/17/liblouis-joins-software-freedom-conservancy/" >Liblouis Joins Software Freedom Conservancy</a></h3> <h4 >Essential Tool for Visually Impaired Users Establishes Nonprofit Home</h4> <p class="date">March 17, 2025</p> <p>The <a href="https://liblouis.io/">liblouis project</a> and Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) are excited to announce that liblouis has joined SFC as a member project, with the goal of ensuring sustainability and a framework for long-term stewardship of this library that is embedded in many assistive technologies including screen readers, braille displays, and on Android and iPhone mobile devices. As a nonprofit home of liblouis, SFC will provide a home for fundraising, legal assistance, and governance that will benefit all users of the project.</p> <p><a class="continued" href="/news/2025/mar/17/liblouis-joins-software-freedom-conservancy/">Read More…</a></p> </div> <div class="press-release"> <h3 class="clear" ><a href="/news/2025/jan/13/neo4j-amicus/" >SFC Files Amicus Brief in Support of Users' Rights under AGPLv3§7</a></h3> <p class="date">January 13, 2025</p> </div> <div class="press-release"> <h3 class="clear" ><a href="/news/2025/jan/09/avm-copyleft-lawsuit-resolved-with-install/" >SFC-funded lawsuit gets software repair and reinstall for users of AVM routers</a></h3> <p class="date">January 9, 2025</p> </div> <div class="press-release"> <h3 class="clear" ><a href="/news/2024/nov/29/openwrt-one-wireless-router-now-ships-black-friday/" >First Router Designed Specifically For OpenWrt Released</a></h3> <p class="date">November 29, 2024</p> </div>  </section> <section class="mt4 mb3 ph2"> <h2 class="f4 mb2 ttu"> <a href="/blog/" class="dark-gray">Articles</a></h2> <div class="blog-entry"> <h3 class="clear" ><a href="/blog/2025/jan/18/usa-should-require-bytedance-to-open-source-tiktok/" >Everyone is asking the wrong questions about TikTok</a></h3> <p class="date">by <span class="author">Bradley M. Kuhn and Karen M. Sandler</span> on January 18, 2025 </p> </div> <hr class="clear"> <div class="blog-entry"> <h3 class="clear" ><a href="/blog/2025/jan/16/end-of-year-2024-fundraiser-a-massive-success/" >2024 End-of-Year Fundraiser Succeeds: over $480k to support software freedom</a></h3> <p class="date">by <span class="author">Daniel Takamori</span> on January 16, 2025 </p> </div> <hr class="clear"> <div class="blog-entry"> <h3 class="clear" ><a href="/blog/2025/jan/15/cory-doctorow-video-interview/" >Karen Sandler interviews Cory Doctorow</a></h3> <p class="date">by <span class="author">Daniel Takamori</span> on January 15, 2025 </p> </div> <hr class="clear"> <div class="blog-entry"> <h3 class="clear" ><a href="/blog/2025/jan/06/embroidery-and-resilient-software-freedom-in-2025/" >Embroidery and resilient software freedom in 2025</a></h3> <p class="date">by <span class="author">Sage A. 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