Bruce Schneier: "Encryption is essential in securing our computers and communications, but it's not a panacea. It's worth ...

In line with the conclusions of the recent CISA election report, our position has not changed: digital systems only add vulnerabilities to the voting system, including voter registration, casting a ...

Notices accompanying free software, like clear authorship and license information, can serve an important purpose when they communicate to users the freedom to run, study, modify, copy, and distribute ...

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 ...

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 ...

To help us bring attention to the importance of software freedom, and the need for the technology we use to respect our basic dignity, please show your support by promoting this video. We're almost ...

We've made so much progress in the past forty years and countless memories along the way. On October 4, 2025, the day when the FSF actually turns forty, we invite you to celebrate the free software ...

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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 ...

While "use it on a space station" wasn't listed as one of RMS's "Measures Governments Can Use to Promote Free Software", the announcement that the International Space Station is switching its laptops ...

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) ...