Purpose and Goals

The Free Protocols Foundation (FPF) is a global independent public forum, dedicated to the support of the internet engineering profession towards our profession's responsibility to society and humanity.

Proper functioning of the internet engineering profession requires certain freedoms and demands certain societal agreements that are needed to bring about collaborative and cumulative environments for development of poly-existentials in general and software in particular.

We believe that the Western so-called Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Regime of Patents and Copyright are an obstacle to progress of the engineering profession and are detrimental to society.

Our goals are three fold:

1. Within the existing Western legal framework of Copyright and Patents, facilitate development of Free Protocols, Libre Software and Libre Services.
2. Work towards Abolishment of the Western so-called Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Regime. Nature of poly-existentials is the basis of this goal. See plpc-xxx for more information.
3. Promote development and usage of Halaal Software and Halaal Internet Application Services. Discourage development and usage of Haraam Software and Haraam Internet Application Services. We do this based on an ethical belief system that recognizes responsibility of the engineering profession to society, which in turn demands the Halaal manner of existence of Software. See plpc-xxx for more details.

General Activities

Towards the goal of promoting development and use of Halaal Software and Halaal Internet Application Services within the existing Western legal framework of Copyright and Patents, we undertake the following general activities:

• Provide framework and facilities for development and maintenance of Patent-Free Protocols.

  See for details.

• Libre Services: free software ideology for Internet services

  See LibreServices.org Federations of Autonomous

  Federation of Autonomous Libre Services: free software ideology for Internet services

  See LibreServices.org

Towards the goal of Abolishment of the Western so-called Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) Regime, our activities are enumerated in AbolishWesternIPR.

How to Participate

• Declare your protocols patent-free
• Make a tax deductible donation
• Participating in FPF activities

Projects

FPF uses a project based model to progress towards its objectives. The following projects are current and endorsed.

1. Libre Texting

   See for details.

2. PersoArabic

   See LibreServices.org