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Feb 2 2012
5:52am		Kuhn: Some Thoughts on Conservancy's GPL Enforcement
Bradley Kuhn has posted a lengthy explanation of the Software Freedom Conservancy's GPL enforcement activities and the demands they make. "I started using this request regularly around 2002 because violators express a concern that, if they came into... more
Feb 2 2012
5:13am		The Document Foundation will be based in Berlin
The Document Foundation has announced that its long-awaited legal entity will be based in Berlin. "'After many months of work in close cooperation with the authorities, we were able to keep the spirit of the community bylaws, and incorporate them in... more
Feb 2 2012
5:10am		Wednesday's security update
CentOS has updated thunderbird (C4, C5, C6: multiple vulnerabilities), firefox (C4, C5, C6: multiple vulnerabilities) and seamonkey (C4: multiple vulnerabilities). Fedora has updated smokeping (F15, F16: cross-site scripting), krb5 (F15: denial of... more
Feb 2 2012
3:26am		[$] A tempest in a toybox
The eLinux.org web site is currently promoting a project to write a replacement for Busybox under a permissive license. Normally, the writing of more free software is seen as a good thing, but, in this case, there have been complaints about the perc... more
Feb 2 2012
2:13am		Apache HTTP Server 2.2.22 released
Version 2.2.22 of the Apache web server is out. The main point of this release appears to be the fixing of six different CVE numbers, so people with their own Apache builds probably want to grab the update.... more
Feb 2 2012
1:48am		Almost There - PyPy's ARM Backend
The PyPy Status Blog has an update on the status of the PyPy port to the ARM architecture. "The current results on ARM, as shown in the graph below, show that the JIT currently gives a speedup of about 3.5 times compared to CPython on ARM. The benchm... more
Feb 2 2012
1:11am		Greg Kroah-Hartman moves to the Linux Foundation
The Linux Foundation has announced that Greg Kroah-Hartman has joined the organization as a fellow. "In his role as Linux Foundation Fellow, Kroah-Hartman will continue his work as the maintainer for the Linux stable kernel branch and a variety of s... more
Feb 1 2012
9:51am		Kernel prepatch 3.3-rc2
The 3.3-rc2 prepatch is out, a little later than would have ordinarily been expected. "The diffstat is pretty flat - indicative of mostly small changes spread out. Which is what I like seeing, and we don't always see at this point. There's some file... more
Feb 1 2012
7:54am		FOSDEM speaker interviews
The last set of interviews with FOSDEM speakers has been released. This list includes Juan David Gonzalez Cobas and Javier Serrano (open hardware), Bryan Østergaard (community management), Ben Klang (Adhearsion), Soren Hansen (monitoring), Kristian... more
Feb 1 2012
6:35am		Security advisories for Tuesday
CentOS has updated C6: ruby (denial of service), ruby (C5;C4: denial of service/predictable random numbers), C6: t1lib (multiple vulnerabilities), C6: openssl (multiple vulnerabilities), C6: glibc (denial of service), and C4: php (multiple vulnerabil... more
Feb 1 2012
1:29am		Garrett: The ongoing fight against GPL enforcement
Matthew Garrett has posted a complaint about an attempt to create a permissively-licensed busybox and calls for kernel developers to be more aggressive in enforcing their copyrights. "The real problem here is that the [Software Freedom Conservancy's... more
Feb 1 2012
1:16am		Red Hat extends RHEL5 and 6 support
Red Hat has sent out a press release stating, in pure marketing style, that the support period for versions 5 and 6 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux has been extended to ten years. "Many of our customers have come to realize that standardizing on Red Hat... more
Jan 31 2012
8:54am		Format string vulnerability in sudo
The sudo utility (version 1.8.0 and later) suffers from a format string vulnerability that can be easily shown to crash the program. There do not appear to be any publicly-posted privilege escalation exploits at this time, but that does not mean tha... more
Jan 31 2012
7:59am		CERN OHL v.1.2 call for comments
The CERN Open Hardware License version 1.2 is available for comments and feedback. "The main changes were introduced in article 3 of the licence. One point in particular is still under discussion and concerns article 3.3(e) – attempting to send mo... more
Jan 31 2012
6:19am		Freemyipod
The freemyipod project aims to provide tools and documentation that will allow you to jailbreak your iPod so that you can run alternative firmware such as Rockbox. So far only clickwheel devices are supported. (Thanks to Ashley Hull)... more
Jan 31 2012
5:45am		Monday's security updates
Debian has updated qemu-kvm (code execution) and icu (code execution). Fedora has updated t1lib (F16; F15: multiple vulnerabilities), openttd (F16; F15: denial of service), F16: curl (data injection), and F15: qt (denial of service). Gentoo has upd... more
Jan 31 2012
2:03am		ownCloud 3 released
Version 3 of the ownCloud personal cloud system has been announced. New features include a browser-based text editor, an integrated PDF viewer, a photo gallery application, an improved calendar application, and, inevitably, an application store. "Th... more
Jan 31 2012
1:31am		ImageZero for lossless photo compression
Christoph Feck has announced the first release of ImageZero, a lossless photo compression tool. "Being twice as fast as PNG when decompressing (and more than 20 times faster when compressing) it achieves compression ratios that are near or better tha... more
Jan 30 2012
6:41am		Seigo: The reveal
KDE developer Aaron Seigo writes about the "Spark", an upcoming unlocked €200 tablet that runs the KDE Plasma Active system. "This is more than just another piece of hardware on the market, though. This is a unique opportunity for Free software. F... more
Jan 28 2012
7:21am		Opponents protest signing of ACTA without adequate debate (ars technica)
ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) was called "more dangerous than SOPA" by US Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), as ars technica reports. "Kader Arif, a French member of the European Parliament from the Socialist Party, had been assigned to be a rappor... more

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