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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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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We receive reports about free software license violations from the public every month, and we investigate them all. Since the FSF holds the copyright for a number of popular programs, such as GNU Bash ...

Knowing which hardware devices support GNU/Linux is important not only for practical reasons — you want your hardware to work with the software that you want to use — but also for ethical and ...

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) ...