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

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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.

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 ...

The GNU Affero General Public License version 3 (AGPLv3) is the most protective of computer user freedom, yet it remains the most misunderstood of the GNU family of licenses. The AGPLv3 was created to ...

BOSTON (October 22, 2024) -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has announced today that it is working on a statement of criteria for free machine learning applications, which will require the ...

Microsoft GitHub's announcement of an AI-driven Service as a Software Substitute (SaaSS) program called Copilot -- which uses machine learning to autocomplete code for developers as they write ...