Software Freedom Conservancy Overview

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Overview

Software Freedom Conservancy is a not-for-profit organization that promotes, improves, and defends software freedom, particularly free and open-source software (FOSS). They support over forty member projects, providing them with a non-profit infrastructure, so these projects can focus on software development. In relation to scientific open source, they act as a fiscal sponsor for many open-source projects utilized by the scientific community. They help to assure that these software tools remain freely available and that its source code stays openly accessible for researchers, contributing to transparency and reproducibility in the scientific process. They safeguard the interests of free software project communities, ensuring they have necessary resources and fulfill legal requirements.