Strengthening F-Droid's Legal Resilience - Introducing the Research Series | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
In April, we published a piece outlining some of the work underway to help strengthen the F-Droid project against unjust intrusion, interception and monitoring. We shared how contributors, maintainers, and developers in the free software world are increasingly navigating takedown demands, vague or impractical regulations, and aggressive enforcement actions and how we, as a community, need better tools and strategies to face these challenges.
That article marked the beginning of a longer-term initiative, and today we’re excited to kick off a new series of blog posts that will share what we’ve been working on since then.
Thanks to support from OTF’s FOSS Sustainability Fund, this legal resilience project was launched to help F-Droid, and the people who contribute to and depend on it, become more resilient in the face of these legal complexities, and to navigate them safely and responsibly.
F-Droid operates under the legal umbrella of The Commons Conservancy. The Commons Conservancy is a nonprofit foundation based in the Netherlands. This provides us with a clearly defined jurisdiction and a foundation for legal compliance. However, because F-Droid is built for a global community and operates in a European country we still face legal pressure from multiple jurisdictions and European regulations.
