Software Freedom Conservancy, Inc. (also known as "Conservancy") is an American non-profit organization that provides infrastructure and legal support for free and open-source software projects. The organization was established in 2006, and as of June 2022, had over 40 member projects.[2]
History
In 2007, Conservancy started coordinating GNU General Public License compliance and enforcement actions, primarily for the BusyBox project.[3]
In October 2010, Conservancy hired its first executive director, Bradley M. Kühn[4] and a year later, its first General Counsel, Tony Sebro.[5] In May 2012, Conservancy took on GPL compliance and enforcement for several other member projects, as well as for a number of individual Linux kernel developers.[6]