2005 Linux and free software timeline: June [LWN.net]

Nokia's announcement isn't nothing, but it is next to nothing... Nokia, along with IBM and Microsoft, is lobbying hard for software patents in Europe. Nokia will surely point to its own small gesture as "proof" that software patents will not be devastating to free software.

--Richard Stallman

Red Hat launches its directory server product (press release).

Google announces its summer of code program which pays hundreds of students to develop free software.

Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 ('sarge') is released (announcement).

Intel denies rumors that upcoming processors have secret DRM features built in.

Xandros Business Desktop 3.0 is released (announcement).

[Linux is] terrible. Everyone is using it, and they don't realize how bad it is. And the Linux people will just stick with it and add to it rather than stepping back and saying, 'This is garbage and we should fix it.'

--Theo de Raadt via Daniel Lyons

Red Hat announces plans to create a Foundation to provide independent management of the Fedora Project. Implementation of the plan proves slow.

Sun releases the OpenSolaris code under the CDDL (article).

Zope Corp. creates a foundation for the Zope project (announcement).

Version 1.1 of the Developers Certificate of Origin is adopted for kernel contributions (instructions).

Debian 'sarge' for amd64 is released (announcement).

People are claiming that code can just get "slipped into" the main kernel tree without realizing where it really came from, or without any sort of review process. Obviously they have never actually tried to get a major kernel patch accepted, otherwise they would not be making these kinds of claims.

--Greg Kroah-Hartman

The Debian security update system falls apart (weblog).

Fedora Core 4 is released (announcement).

Gentoo founder Daniel Robbins moves to Microsoft.

Mandriva acquires Lycoris.

The EFF Legal Guide for Bloggers is posted (guide).

The Linux trademark license is changed and becomes more expensive; trademark enforcement also becomes more aggressive (article).

The 2.6.12 kernel is released (announcement).

It's 2005, not 1985. We've learned a lot in the last 20 years. The fears that originally led to the reciprocity stuff in GPL are nowadays, at least in my opinion, baseless. People who do what the GPL tries to prevent (e.g., closed source forks of open source projects) wind up injuring only themselves.

--Eric Raymond

HP claims to have shipped over 1 million Linux servers (press release).

A foundation is created to manage OpenPKG (announcement).

Jeff Merkey files suit against Groklaw, Slashdot, and much of the rest of the free software world (article).

Grokster is found guilty of inducing copyright infringement again (article).

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