Software Freedom Law Center
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The Software Freedom Law Center is a legal services organization that provides pro bono representation and advocacy to protect and advance free and open-source software.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Software Freedom Law Center canonical | 5 |
| Software Freedom Law Center Clinic at Columbia Law School | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T477608 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Software Freedom Law Center Context triple: [free software movement, hasKeyOrganization, Software Freedom Law Center]
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A.
Free Software Foundation
The Free Software Foundation is a nonprofit organization that promotes computer users' freedom and defends the rights of all software users through advocacy, licensing, and development of free software.
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B.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a leading nonprofit organization that defends civil liberties, privacy, and free expression in the digital world through legal action, advocacy, and technology.
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C.
Mozilla Foundation
The Mozilla Foundation is a nonprofit organization best known for promoting an open and accessible internet and stewarding projects like the Firefox web browser and the JavaScript language’s early development.
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D.
Open Source Development Labs
Open Source Development Labs was a non-profit organization that supported and promoted Linux and open-source software development, notably serving as a home base for Linus Torvalds before it merged into The Linux Foundation.
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E.
GNU Project
The GNU Project is a free software initiative that created many core components of the GNU/Linux operating system and pioneered the modern free software movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Software Freedom Law Center Target entity description: The Software Freedom Law Center is a legal services organization that provides pro bono representation and advocacy to protect and advance free and open-source software.
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A.
Free Software Foundation
The Free Software Foundation is a nonprofit organization that promotes computer users' freedom and defends the rights of all software users through advocacy, licensing, and development of free software.
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B.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is a leading nonprofit organization that defends civil liberties, privacy, and free expression in the digital world through legal action, advocacy, and technology.
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C.
Mozilla Foundation
The Mozilla Foundation is a nonprofit organization best known for promoting an open and accessible internet and stewarding projects like the Firefox web browser and the JavaScript language’s early development.
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D.
Open Source Development Labs
Open Source Development Labs was a non-profit organization that supported and promoted Linux and open-source software development, notably serving as a home base for Linus Torvalds before it merged into The Linux Foundation.
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E.
GNU Project
The GNU Project is a free software initiative that created many core components of the GNU/Linux operating system and pioneered the modern free software movement.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
advocacy organization
ⓘ
legal services organization ⓘ non-profit organization ⓘ |
| abbreviation | SFLC ⓘ |
| affiliation | Columbia Law School ⓘ |
| client |
developers of free and open-source software
ⓘ
free software projects ⓘ non-profit organizations ⓘ open-source software projects ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| fieldOfWork |
copyright law
ⓘ
free software ⓘ intellectual property law ⓘ non-profit law ⓘ open-source software ⓘ patent law ⓘ software licensing ⓘ technology law ⓘ trademark law ⓘ |
| foundedBy |
Columbia Law School
ⓘ
Eben Moglen ⓘ |
| foundingDate | 2005 ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Software Freedom Law Center
self-linksurface differs
ⓘ
surface form:
Software Freedom Law Center Clinic at Columbia Law School
|
| headquartersLocation |
New York
ⓘ
New York City ⓘ United States of America ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| languageOfWorkOrName | English ⓘ |
| legalStatus | 501(c)(3) non-profit organization ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone |
Eastern Time Zone
ⓘ
surface form:
America/New_York
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| motto | legal services for free and open source software (approximate) ⓘ |
| name | Software Freedom Law Center self-link ⓘ |
| nonProfitType | public-interest law organization ⓘ |
| notableWork |
advising on the drafting and interpretation of the GNU General Public License
ⓘ
advocacy on software patent reform ⓘ representation of BusyBox developers in GPL enforcement cases ⓘ |
| operatingArea |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
international ⓘ |
| purpose |
to protect and advance free and open-source software
ⓘ
to provide pro bono legal services to free and open-source software projects ⓘ to support the Free and Open Source Software community ⓘ |
| service |
education and training on free and open-source software legal issues
ⓘ
legal counseling ⓘ licensing compliance advice ⓘ litigation support ⓘ policy advocacy ⓘ pro bono legal representation ⓘ |
| website | https://www.softwarefreedom.org/ ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Software Freedom Law Center Description of subject: The Software Freedom Law Center is a legal services organization that provides pro bono representation and advocacy to protect and advance free and open-source software.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Software Freedom Law Center Clinic at Columbia Law School