The Free Software Foundation (FSF), a Massachusetts 501 (c) (3) charity with a worldwide mission to promote computer user ...

Google uses "smart" devices to watch and control you. The closer computers get to our bodies and homes, the less control we seem to have over them. "Wearable" devices are sold as personal technology, ...

So far this year, there have been fifty LibreLocals on six continents, mostly in May, or as we like to call it, "LibreLocal ...

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, ...

For over 20 years, the FSF Licensing & Compliance Team has been the preeminent resource of free licensing for free software developers. Software freedom means that other people cannot use software to ...

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 ...

Any kind of mass surveillance, especially if it involves nonfree software, is unacceptable. A lost dog's best friend: that's how Amazon-subsidiary Ring tried to position itself with its 2026 Super ...

The Free Software Foundation (FSF), like many others, received a notice regarding settlement in the copyright infringement lawsuit Bartz v. Anthropic. It is a class action lawsuit claiming that ...

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 ...

This year's Free Software Awards recipients are Andy Wingo, Alx Sa, and Govdirectory. Andy Wingo is the winner of the Award for the Advancement of Free Software, which is given to an individual who ...

In the lead up to its Switch 2 console release, Nintendo updated its user agreement and asserted broad authority to make consoles owned by its customers permanently unusable. Under Nintendo's most ...