A #ThankGNU! to Edward Flick and Joseph Pingenot for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m

Are you a developer and have headaches managing licenses? REUSE makes it pretty straightforward!

https://reuse.software/

REUSE is a tool and specification that helps you clearly declare license information in your code using standardized SPDX headers. It makes #FreeSoftware licensing easier, more consistent, and automatable.

Both humans and machines can quickly understand how your code can be used!

The @fsfe and the #LUGBZ are looking for nominations for the European #SFSAward 2025.

With the award we celebrate and recognise individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the European #SoftwareFreedom culture. The former two award recipients were @nextcloud 's Frank @Karlitschek and the #VIM developer Bram Moolenaar.

Please nominate a candidate who made great contributions to #FreeSoftware by **12 May **.

https://www.sfscon.it/award-nomination/

A #ThankGNU! to Katherine Brady and Meng Guang for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m

May Newsletter!!

In April, our work on #DeviceNeutrality continued with news and meetings on DMA; we had a #PMPC meeting in Germany and talked about the German coalition agreement in one of our Podcast episodes; we also held our annual Legal & Licensing Workshop; and we published another article in our Legal Corner:

https://fsfe.org/news/nl/nl-202505.en.html

A #ThankGNU! to Edward Flick and Joseph Pingenot for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m

𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐌𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐲? 𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐂𝐨𝐝𝐞!

Public administrations depend on digital tools. #FreeSoftware ensures they can be used, improved, and shared without restrictions.

https://publiccode.eu/

“The primary purpose of AGPL appears to be creating barriers for public cloud providers, which likely guarantees that major sponsors like Amazon and Google will continue to support Valkey.” - Vadim Tkachenko, Percona co-founder.

Respectfully, no. This is not the purpose or the reason.

Unpopular opinion: If you do not perform all the obligations of a license like the AGPLv3 yourself, and would gladly and fearlessly use software produced by someone else exclusively available under that license as part of your software service, you shouln’t offer your software under that license.

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A mistrust of apps is not a bad thing. The majority of them exist only to exploit their access to your device for DataFarming purposes (see my recent post about ZipoApps).

That's why I'm so fussy about installing phone apps only from F-Droid. Where they've been rebuilt from source code and checked for spyware, which they either remove, or at least flag (eg if the app is tethered to a DataFarming remote service).

#FDroid #SoftwareFreedom #DataFarming

@KneeNeart

A #ThankGNU! to Joseph Cox, Katherine Runyon, and Kevin Runner for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m

The future of the @osuosl is in jeopardy. They need $250K in committed funds by May 14 to avoid shutdown. Staff, students & 500+ free software projects depend on them. Please share or donate: https://osuosl.org/donate

Contact: donations@osuosl.org #FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom #GNU #Linux

A #ThankGNU! to Christos Kalkanis, Dwayne Dever, and František Kučera for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m

Parents, teachers, geeks, mentors... do you know "Ada & Zangemann"?

This illustrated book is a perfect tool to start conversations with kids (and everyone!) about software freedom, the need to shape our technology, and the joy of tinkering.

Gift it. Read it. Share it.

ada.fsfe.org

In the spirit of Free Comic Book Day on Saturday, I'm rather enjoying this new comic strip about an "open community project" (more a serialised graphic novel - it only makes sense as a whole) that has sprung up. Frequently unsure whether to laugh or wince, but I guess that means it's really well done! https://www.collaboraonline.com/torf/torf1/

A #ThankGNU! to Adam Oberbeck, Andy Kopra, and Ayan Jaysan for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m

Thanks to our volunteers part of our translation team, our news can be delivered in diverse European languages!

One of the tools they are using, also created by one of our volunteers, is Webpreview. Our latest update integrates LibreTranslate, providing a helpful starting point to speed up the translation process.

https://fsfe.org/news/2025/news-20250429-01.en.html

You can also join our translators team! https://fsfe.org/contribute/translators/translators.html

A #ThankGNU! to Sandhya Ramaswamy Devi, Valerio Poggi, and Water Chika for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/45m

Hi, it’s me, Freedo! I'm happy to announce new Linux-Libre kernel releases: 6.14.4-gnu, 6.12.25-gnu, 6.6.88-gnu, and 6.1.135-gnu are out now! Free as in freedom, polished and ready for you! Grab them, spread the word, and keep computing in freedom. Your adventure in freedom awaits! Thank you everyone for supporting fully free software - you make the world better! https://www.fsfla.org/ikiwiki/selibre/linux-libre/ #FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom #GNU #Linux #LinuxLibre