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Free Software Foundation Europe

La Free Software Foundation Europe est une association à but non lucratif qui offre aux utilisateurs les moyens de contrôler la technologie.

Le logiciel est profondément ancré dans tous les aspects de nos vies. Le Logiciel Libre donne à chacun·e le droit d'utiliser, de comprendre, d'adapter et de partager des logiciels. Ces droits permettent de soutenir d'autres droits fondamentaux comme la liberté d'expression, la liberté de la presse et la vie privée. En savoir plus...

From FOSDEM to "I ❤️ Free Software Day”: community, policy, and the freedom to study code

Newsletter

February is a reminder of why our Free Software community matters and why it's such a joy to be part of it. After FOSDEM, we are now looking ahead to the celebrations of the I Love Free Software Day across Europe. We are also catching up with our latest episodes of the Software Freedom Podcast focused on European policy and a Legal Corner about the freedom to study source code.  

A wide-angle view of the top of the Spanish Supreme court, a stone   building with classical statues along the roofline, the letters  Tribunal Supremo and a large red and yellow Spanish flag flying  above

The social value of the freedom to study source code in the Spanish Court

Community

While copyright and licensing currently form the core legal structures that support Free Software, a September 2025 ruling from the Spanish Supreme Court provides a legal precedent that underlines the importance of transparency in source codes and algorithms, and support for the Freedom to Study! 

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SFP#45: The final chapter of the EU Radio Equipment Directive

Software Freedom Podcast

What can be better while travelling to FOSDEM than to listen to the (hopefully) final chapter of the EU Radio Equipment Directive (RED)? In this 45th SFP episode Alexander Sander and Bonnie Mehring are discussing the RED with their former colleague Max Mehl.  

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I believe Free Software needs a voice at the national as well as the EU level in politics: Software does not exist in an isolated bubble, it's heavily dependent on the ecosystem that it lives in. In my opinion Free Software as well as open standards are key to creating a society that provides equal access.

Isabel Drost-Fromm (Software Engineer and Member of the Apache Software Foundation)

I'm a supporter of the FSFE as I want to sustain their work to promote Free Software. As a person that uses computers quite heavily every day, I'm very concerned with the current trend of locking down computing which is taking control away from the users. This is increasingly problematic since people's lives are more and more dependent on computers for personal communications, managing finances, employment, etc. Free Software is a necessary requirement for retaining control over your computing.

Mats Sjöberg (Machine learning specialist)

What is the biggest benefit of Free Software? Freedom!

Olga Gkotsopoulou (Research Associate)

Matériel d'information

Promotional flyers, stickers, postcards, and brochures from FSFE. On the material you can see campaign logos, and different activities from the FSFE.

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