While it's understandable to be pleased by this news from California, Newsom's executive order also invites questions about the "kill switch" itself that could matter a great deal for freedom.

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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 ...

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Debian's decision to include Mono in its principal way of installing GNOME, for the sake of Tomboy which is an application written in C#, leads the community in a risky direction. It is dangerous to ...

The more we share the free software philosophy, the closer we get to a free world. The Bluesky developers have taken steps to improve upon microblogging services like X (Twitter), but there continue ...

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BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Saturday, May 4, 2024 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced the recipients of the 2023 Free Software Awards, which are given annually at the FSF's ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...