Free Software Foundation Europe is a charity that empowers users to control technology. Software is deeply involved in all aspects of our lives. #FreeSoftware (aka #OpenSource) gives everybody the rights to use, understand, adapt, and share software. These rights help support other fundamental rights like freedom of speech, freedom of press, and privacy. #SoftwareFreedom
Public Money? #PublicCode ! #DeviceNeutrality #UpcyclingAndroid #RouterFreedom #ilovefs #YH4F #REUSE #DigitalRights
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It was a pleasure to spend the past few days with members of the Legal Network at our annual conference, the Free Software Legal & Licensing Workshop.
The Legal Network is a neutral, non-partisan group of experts from diverse fields within the #FreeSoftware ecosystem. Its mission is to encourage open discussion and deepen understanding of the legal frameworks that support #FreeSoftware.
Help us to build bridges across Europe! 💪 The FSFE needs you! Contribute to spread the word about #FreeSoftware and our activities!
To reach as many people as possible, we rely on our amazing translators team, which helps us to translate our pages into around 38 languages.
https://fsfe.org/contribute/translators/translators.en.html
⚠️ Please join our translators! Not all languages are currently up-to-date and some are missing crucial pages like the fsfe.org/index page or the page about Free Software: https://fsfe.org/freesoftware/
If it’s funded with public money, it should be public code.
That means guaranteeing the 4 freedoms:
🔓 Use the code
🔍 Study how it works
✏️ Modify it
🔁 Share it
Do you agree?
✍️ Sign the open letter
📢 Share it with your network
🏛️ Call on decision-makers to invest in public code
Can software developers write their own software license for their project?
a) Yes, it is best for software developers to write their own software license for their project
b) Yes, but it is best for software developers to choose an established #FreeSoftware
license with predictable legal effects for their project
c) No, software developers are prohibited by law to write their own software licenses
d) No, software licenses can only be written by legal professionals
#SoftwareFreedom
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A more resilient, trustworthy and open Internet? ✅
🎧 Thank no God but to all listeners it's Friday! And our 50th episode of the #SoftwareFreedom podcast is here!
💬 @annabonnie talks with Gabriel Ku Wei Bin, from the FSFE's legal team about how the European Next Generation Internet initiative, @ngi, works to move us in the right direction towards a human-centric web
Special thank you to all our listeners! Without your support, we would not have made it this far ❤️
April newsletter is here!! 🚀
🔹 Conference season is in full swing 🤩
🔸 We have been navigating the challenge of our payment provider ending our contract. Thank you to everyone who supported us during this time of financial uncertainty! 🤗
🔹 Check out our first interview on the 2026 #ilovefs celebrations ❣️
🔸 Two #SoftwareFreedom podcast episodes 🎧
Not so long ago, the Free Software community celebrated the "I Love Free Software Day". ❤️
A day in which the FSFE, our volunteers and many other organisations and individuals thank all contributors for their commitment to use, study, share and improve #FreeSoftware. Without them there is no software freedom!
We talked with Paweł, one of the organizers of #ilovefs day in Poznan in 2026! https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260406-01.en.html
All #FreeSoftware licenses are compatible with each other - True or false?
a) True. All Free Software-licensed code can be combined in the same software project
b) True. All Free Software-licensed code become copyleft licensed when combined in the same software project
c) False. Some Free Software licenses, and particularly copyleft licenses, can create license incompatibilities
d) False. Free Software-licensed code must only be combined and reused with code with the same license
Remember being 15, fixing things nobody asked you to fix, staying up way too late debugging stuff for fun? We built the contest we wish had existed back then. 🤩
Any Free Software project. 6 months. No fixed topic. Up to €4096 + a trip to Brussels to meet their people.
Ages 14–18, anywhere in Europe. Solo or team. Totally beginner-ok.
📣 If you know a young hacker, tell them about it!
🔗 More information on https://yh4f.org
