BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA (Tuesday, July 16, 2025), the Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced the projects that ...

In a world where technology is becoming increasingly predatory, free software is the solution. The FSF has been defending ...

In a world where technology is becoming more and more predatory, a dystopian reality seems just around the corner. It can ...

Last month, as part of our year of celebrating forty years since the FSF's founding, we kicked off our member spotlight series with long-term FSF supporter and GNU Taler developer Iván Ávalos. Today, ...

This article explains some issues about the meaning and enforcement of the GNU General Public License. The specific occasion for this article is the violation of combining Linux with ZFS, and that ...

Join our lead freedom-seeker, Zara, as she learns the importance of free software, and guides herself through the labyrinth of challenges posed to her by contemporary digital society, which offers the ...

This paper is also available as a PDF. We have been working hard the last several months to stop Restricted Boot, a major threat to user freedom, free software ideals, and free software adoption.

(FSF Compliance Engineer Brett Smith has written more about what we can learn from this settlement.) BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Wednesday, May 20, 2009 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) and ...

One of the services the FSF provides to the free software movement is license enforcement for the GNU Project. Our ability to enforce the license on packages like GCC or GNU Emacs begins with a ...

Nineteen new GNU releases in the last month (as of July 28, 2024): automake-1.17: Automake the part of the GNU build system for producing standards-compliant Makefiles. Build requirements are entered ...

Grassroots organization against a corporation as large as Microsoft is never easy. They have the advertising budget to claim that they "love Linux" (sic), not to mention the money and political ...

BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA—Friday, June 29, 2007—The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today released version 3 of the GNU General Public License (GNU GPL), the world's most popular free software license ...