FSF News
GPL Enforcement in Apple's App Store
An iPhone port of GNU Go is currently being distributed through Apple's App Store. However, this distribution is not in compliance with the GNU GPL. The primary problem is that Apple imposes numerous legal restrictions on use and distribution of GNU Go through the iTunes Store Terms of Service, which is forbidden by section 6 of GPLv2. So today we have written to Apple and asked them to come into compliance. We would be happy to see Apple distribute these programs under the GPL's terms, but unfortunately, it seems much more likely that they'll simply make the problem go away by removing GNU Go from the App Store.
Bilski and Patent Absurdity
Who should see the documentary film Patent Absurdity?
Free Software Foundation statement on WebM and VP8
Chris Hofstader appointed as GNU access technology director
GNU Project appoints director of access technology software and publishes GNU Accessibility Statement
FSF launches free software extension listing for OpenOffice.org
Breakthrough for Free Software Gaming
Breakthrough for Free Software Gaming--Ryzom Announces Full Release of Source Code and Artwork, and a Partnership with the Free Software Foundation to Host a Repository of the Game's Artistic Assets
FSF responds to Jobs's "Thoughts on Flash"
Apple's use of proprietary software and recommendation of an explicitly patent-afflicted standard (H.264) are inconsistent with the free web.
New Documentary Film "Patent Absurdity: how software patents broke the system"
New documentary film "Patent Absurdity" is set to expose how the judicial activism that led to the patenting of software has broken the US patent system's promise of promoting the progress of science and useful arts
Time for nonprofits to leave proprietary fundraising software systems behind
BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Wednesday, April 14th, 2010 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced that CiviCRM has earned its recommendation as a fully featured donor and contact management system for nonprofits.
Why I'm rejecting your email attachment
Why I'm rejecting your email attachment: for freedom and the good of the web!
FSF Advocates Free Software for U.S. IPEC Joint Strategic Plan
2009 Free Software Awards Announced
Free Software Award Winners: John Gilmore and the Internet Archive
Day Against DRM: Tuesday, May 4th 2010
"When companies organize to design products to restrict us, we have to organize to defeat them" -- FSF president Richard Stallman
LibrePlanet Free Software Conference: Free as in Freedom!
The annual free software conference LibrePlanet is the place for the free software community -- from old school hackers to brand new users -- to come together and further the collective goals of the free software movement. At LibrePlanet 2010 you can help your neighbor get a head-start in free software or explore the very latest philosophical ideas that will shape computing and user freedom for the next generation.
Defective by Design delivers iPad anti-DRM petition with 5,000 signatures to Jobs -- more coming
The first 5,000 names have been printed on a four-foot tall "tablet" and shipped to Cupertino. Defective by Design will send a new tablet for every 5,000 signatures.
Free Software Foundation files new objection to amended Google Book Search settlement
iPad is iBad for freedom
With new tablet device, Apple's Steve Jobs pushes unprecedented extension of DRM to a new class of general purpose computers
FSF announces LibrePlanet 2010 free software community conference: March 19-21
FSF works with PayPal to the benefit of the free software community
The Free Software Foundation thanks PayPal for responding to its concerns and making its terms more free software friendly.
Why is free software important to you? Submit your response to our new video campaign!
At the Women in Free Software Summit and the Boston celebration of Software Freedom Day 2009, the FSF kicked off a new video testimonial campaign. See how it went, and help support the campaign by submitting a video response to these questions!