A message by the #LICS SC Chair that was just sent out:

"Dear LICS Friend,

At the end of December 2025, the LICS Steering Committee decided that LICS 2026 will not be sponsored by ACM nor IEEE. In particular, the proceedings of LICS 2026 will be published by LIPIcs. LICS 2026 will be a part of the FLoC 2026 meeting; of the ten main conferences at this meeting, nine will be run independently, while one will be sponsored by the IEEE.

The main reasons for this decision are:

- Organizing the conference independently is more efficient and avoids the surcharge currently applied to all conference costs by ACM/IEEE.
- LIPIcs offers high-quality, open-access publishing with a transparent and sustainable cost structure.
- Independence ensures that the organization of our community remains in our hands, rather than being determined by external forces that we can neither control nor influence.

We have decided to reevaluate our decision after FLoC 2026 because we wish to fully understand the implications of this change on the organization of future FLoCs, which we consider a major asset to the community. A final decision will be taken after FLoC 2026."

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