FREE KNOWLEDGE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION
Knowledge deserves a longer life than the infrastructure that hosts it.
Websites go offline. Repositories are deleted. Maintainers move on. Companies close. The internet remembers far less than we often believe. The Free Knowledge Preservation Foundation exists to help ensure that freely shared knowledge remains accessible for future generations.
Featured software
A snapshot of the projects preserved in the FKPF archive.
Why We Exist
Every line of code, every manual, every specification, every tutorial, every translation, and every piece of documentation represents countless hours of human effort. Yet much of this knowledge disappears — not because it has lost its value, but because the platforms that host it cease to exist.
Our Mission
To preserve free knowledge through openness, verification, documentation, and redundancy. We seek to make knowledge resilient — not by centralizing it, but by ensuring that it can survive independently of any single organization, platform, or individual.
Preservation is not ownership. Preservation is responsibility.
Our Principles
Knowledge Should Outlive Platforms
No project should depend on the continued existence of a single website, server, or service.
Preservation Through Redundancy
One copy is fragile. Many independent copies in trusted places create resilience.
Verification Matters
Preservation is meaningful only if the preserved material can be verified. Authenticity and integrity matter.
Documentation Is Part of Preservation
Source code alone rarely tells the whole story. Manuals, discussions, and historical context are essential.
Open Standards Above Proprietary Systems
Knowledge should remain accessible regardless of the software used to access it.
Communities Preserve Knowledge
Maintainers, archivists, developers, educators, libraries, universities — anyone willing to preserve and share knowledge becomes part of the mission.
Current Status
FKPF is currently an idea in development. There are no Guardian Nodes, no preservation network, no funding, and no production software. There is only a mission, a manifesto, and a growing collection of ideas that we hope to shape together with the community.
An Invitation
Before we build software, before we establish an organization, before we ask for support — we invite criticism. Challenge our assumptions. Question our ideas. Tell us what already exists. Tell us what we are missing.