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But when a goal like this gets shouted about so widely by lawmakers who have a less than sterling record on these issues, we need to consider whether the solutions proposed actually address the ...

I have written about the FSF facing DDoS attacks several times, including on doing our part to clean up the internet and on Uptime Kuma, as well as "Defending Savannah from DDoS attacks". But I ...

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Eighteen new GNU releases in the last month (as of June 30, 2026): apl-2.0: GNU APL is a free interpreter for the programming language APL. It is an implementation of the ISO stan ...

This paper is published as part of our call for community whitepapers on Copilot. The papers contain opinions with which the FSF may or may not agree, and any views expressed by the authors do not ...

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The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is the steward of the GNU family of General Public Licenses (GPL), which were carefully drafted to ensure that copyright holders have a tool to release programs as ...

This article was edited on January 18, 2025 to make it clear that this article was written by the board of the FSF, not the founders. The founders of the FSF, started the Free Software Foundation (FSF ...

In early May, security researchers from Hacktron reported vulnerabilities affecting GNU Savannah and demonstrated an exploit. We have been working with these researchers since their initial report, ...

As the following article explains, my feelings about selling license exceptions are mixed. Clearly it is possible to develop powerful and complex software packages under the GNU GPL without selling ...