FSF 2006 year-end fund-raiser handout

The FSF has announced a year-end fund-raiser for their 2007 campaigns for software freedom. Their modest target is 300 new FSF members or $50,000--whichever comes first.

In 2006, the new FSF projects included:

• Three of the first international conferences on the GNU General Public License.
• The rewrite process for version 3 of the GNU GPL, version 3 of the Lesser General Public License (LGPL) and version 2 of the GNU Free Documentation License and the release of a new Simpler Free Documentation License: http://gplv3.fsf.org/
• The successful test of the GPL in US courts (Wallace vs. FSF).
• The Web site release for the GPL compliance lab: http://www.fsf.org/licensing/
• Release of gNewsense 1.0, an entirely free distribution of the GNU/Linux operating system: http://gnewsense.org/
• The first alpha release of Gnash, a free Flash media player.
• The 5,000 entry to the Free Software Directoy: http://directory.fsf.org/
  • The Defective by Design campign against Digital Restrictions Management: DefectiveByDesign.org, which has:
  • secured the pledges of over 15,000 technologists to take action to stop DRM
  • organized the hugely successful "October 3rd Day Against DRM"
  • delivered a clear message, through major press coverage of actions, that DRM is anti-user and anti-consumer.
• The "Bad Vista" campaign, to alert the dangers to software freedom in Microsoft Windows Vista and promote free software alternatives that respect users' security and privacy rights.

Visit http://www.fsf.org/ to view an appeal from FSF Counsel, Eben Moglen, where he discusses the Microsoft and Novell deal, GPLv3, DRM and software patents.

Help the FSF reach their target: spread the word by word-a-mouth email, by inviting a friend to join or donate to the FSF, or ask your company to become an FSF patron.

The FSF campaign for software freedom needs your support.