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Legal Support Activities

Since its foundation in 2001, the FSFE has been working every single day to further Free Software in Europe and beyond. With our concrete activities, based upon the three pillars of our work, we focus on protecting and extending user rights. Some of our actions run for many years, some are aimed at short-term developments, but all are part of our mission: empower users to control technology.

Another major part of our work consists of continuous engagement and background work. We are present at dozens of conferences per year, support and maintain an excellent community and provide it with helpful resources. Furthermore, we are a prominent contact point for all questions and enquiries around software freedom, and user rights.

Learn more about legal issues in Free Software and our general approach in this area.

  • REUSE Software

    A FSFE está rodando um projeto para facilitar o licenciamento para humanos(as) e máquinas de modo parecido. Ele resolve um aspecto fundamental que o licenciamento de Software Livre tem muito em sua fonte: que licença é um arquivo sob licença, e quem detém o direito de cópia? REUSE porê recomendações fáceis em três passos que audam usuários(as), desenvolvedores(as) e profissionais da área legal.

  • Legal Network

    A Legal Network é um grupo neutro e apartidário de "experts" em diferentes campos do conhecimento envolvidos(as) com aspectos legais do Software Livre. Atualmente a Legal Network tam muitas centenas de participantes de diferetnes sistemas legais, arcabouços acadêmicos e filiações. O objetivo da Legal Network é promover discussão e fomentar têm a intenção de ser dinâmicas, provicativas no bom sentido (fazer as pessoas pensarem) e estarem alinhadas aos recentes desenvolvimentos tecnológicos. Desde 2007, temos conduzido o Seminário de Licenciamento e Aspectos Legais (LLW) que tem sido a mais avançada congregação de advogados(as), aficcionados(as) em tecnologia e líderes nos assuntos legais e de licenciamento referentes ao Software Livre numa atmosfera informal e confidencial.

  • Questões Relacionadas às Licenças

    A lista de correio eletrônico sobre Questões Relacionadas às Licenças é nosso grupo de voluntários(as) dedicado a prover ajuda referente a licenças e conformidade legal em Software Livre. Se você precisa de consultoria sobre o que as licenças de Software Livre você deveria usar, ou se você quer cohecer melhor sobre que direitos você tem sobre um pedaço de Software Livre, pode nos contatar.

  • The ZOOOM Initiative

    The FSFE is part of these European consortium to promote and raise awareness about the importance of Free Software, Open Data, and Open Hardware among academia, business, industry, and innovation supporting organizations. As a big part of our work, we are promoting the REUSE specification as an important element for licensing compliance.

  • Internet da Próxima Geração

    A FSFE é uma organização parceira da NGI, uma coalizção de várias entidades sem fins lucrativos Europa afora. Fundada pela Comissão Europeia, NGI provê garantias a pesquisadores(as) e desenvolvedores(as) avulsos(as), bemcomo equipes que desejam trabalhar em novas ideias e tecnologias que comtribuem para o estabelecimento da Internet da Próxima Geração. A FSFE provê apoio legal para projetos que melhorem o caraer aberto, inclusivo, transparente, cooperativo, que valorize a privacidade e proteção dos dados.

  • Fiduciary Programme

    The Fiduciary License Agreement (FLA) allows software projects to assign copyrights to a named fiduciary for its effective management. This allows developers to focus on development rather than spending time on legal administration. While the FSFE is no longer accepting new projects under the Fiduciary Programme, we continue to offer customisable versions of the FLA) for your use.

  • Software Patents in Europe

    We are working towards a world where software does what software users want it to do. For this, software users must be able to participate in the development and distribution of the software. Software patents block this goal by adding legal and financial risks to software development and distribution and by giving the patent holders legal power to completely prohibit software developers from using the patented ideas.

  • Microsoft vs. EU Antitrust CaseConcluído

    In 2001 the European Union started investigating Microsoft's dominant position in the market for desktop operating systems. The FSFE represented the interests of Free Software developer as a public interest organisation who cannot be bought off. Thanks to the excellent work by all involved parties, the case was won in all rulings up to the European Court of Justice in 2012.

  • EURA Slovakia caseConcluído

    The Slovak company EURA faced fines of 5600 euros for not purchasing and use Microsoft Windows operating system for submitting electronic tax reports. The Slovak tax administration gave EURA the option to either buy and use Microsoft Windows or face the fines. The FSFE assisted in this case advocating for platform-neutral solutions for such procedures. Unfortunately, the court ruled against Free Software and Open Standards, but we were able to raise awareness about these wrongdoings in Slovakia and beyond.

  • AVM GPL violationConcluído

    Can a company modify GPL-licensed software on a third-party device? Router manufacturer AVM accused Cybits of copyright and trademark infringement for modifying the original router firmware, which is largely based on the Linux kernel. Together with gpl-violations.org, we successfully convinced the court that the terms of the GPL licence are binding: software under this licence can be freely modified and installed, even if it is supplied as part of the firmware of an embedded device.

  • MS-OOXMLConcluído

    Since the beginning of the standardisation process for Microsoft's Office Open XML - OOXML (hereafter MS-OOXML), the FSFE has raised serious doubts about whether MS-OOXML can be considered open. FSFE was the first to raise the issue in the community, led the movement against the standardisation of MS-OOXML, and has been closely following developments over the years.

  • GPLv3Concluído

    The release of version 3 of the GNU General Public License (GPL) on 29 June 2007 marked the end of an eighteen-month public consultation process. During this time, the FSFE worked to raise awareness of the proposed changes to the licence, to help the community participate in the public consultation, and to document the ongoing discussion to make this issue as accessible as possible.

  • AGNULA: A GNU/Linux Audio distributionConcluído

    The AGNULA project aimed to create a fully functional, completely Free Software GNU/Linux distribution for professional audio users. Run by key players in the audio community, and funded by the European Commission, the FSFE was a partner in the project, taking care of the legal issues, its long-term aspects, and making sure that the interests of the Free Software community were heard.