Announcements

Non-Commercial announcements

Creative Commons retires two licenses

Lawrence Lessig has sent out a message stating that the Creative Commons organization has decided to retire the Developing Nations and Sampling licenses. "The Developing Nations license is in conflict with the growing 'Open Access Publishing' movement. While the license frees creative work in the developing nations, it does not free work in any way elsewhere. This means these licenses do not meet the minimum standards of the Open Access Movement. Because this movement is so important to the spread of science and knowledge, we no longer believe it correct to promote a stand alone version of this license." There are similar motivations for the retirement of the Sampling license.

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Final call GPLv3 draft released

The final draft of version 3 of the GNU General Public License is now available. The changes from the previous draft are relatively small. GPLv3 will be compatible with version 2 of the Apache License thanks to a few tweaks and a more nuanced interpretation of the Apache License text. The term "user product" has been more precisely defined in a way which avoids references to U.S. law; it has been made clear that "user product" is a very broad category. And there is a term that you can have a contractor work on private changes to GPLv3-licensed software without being considered to have distributed that software. The "grandfather clause" which excludes the Microsoft/Novell deal from some of the new patent language is still present. See the rationale document [PDF] for more information on these changes. If something seems wrong, now is the last chance to file comments with the FSF.

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First draft of the Affero GPL version 3

The first draft of version 3 of the Affero GPL has been released for discussion. This version is essentially GPLv3 with an additional term: "Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, if you modify the Program, your modified version must give all users interacting with it remotely through a computer network (if your version supports such interaction) an opportunity to receive the Corresponding Source of your version by providing access to copy the Corresponding Source from a network server at no charge."

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Commercial announcements

Atmel introduces an AVR32 Application processor for embedded Linux designs

Atmel Corporation has announced the AT32AP7001 processor. "Atmel(R) Corporation announced today the AT32AP7001, a member of the AVR(R)32 AP7 family of Application Processors optimized for cost constrained, Linux(R)-based embedded designs. The device is packaged in a 30 x 30mm VQFP for easy integration into a four-layer PCB design. Examples of applications for the AT32AP7001 include printers, fax machines, surveillance cameras, audio processing and industrial control equipment. The new device is built to run the popular Linux operating system in an embedded setting. Atmel provides a free port and support of the OS and tool chain."

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Capgemini and Novell enter broad mixed-source partnership

Novell, Inc. has announced a partnership with Capgemini. "Capgemini and Novell today announced a broad partnership that will deliver new solutions to enterprise customers using a combination of open source and proprietary software. Under terms of the agreement, Capgemini will enhance its open source consulting practice with Novell capabilities, specifically centered on the deployment of IT solutions using SUSE(R) Linux Enterprise from Novell(R) along with mixed-source applications and management tools. As a result, customers can deploy a Linux* platform across their entire desktop-to-data center infrastructures with the confidence that comes from working with a global consulting leader."

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Sun extends compilers and tools to multi-core processors

Sun Microsystems, Inc. has announced multi-core and multi-threading support in its compiler and tools technologies on Solaris and Linux. "Sun(TM) Studio 12 software, which includes a NetBeans(TM)-based integrated development environment (IDE), simplifies the development of applications on the newest multi-core SPARC(R) and x86/64 processor-based systems. In addition, Sun Studio 12 provides C, C++ and Fortran compilers and an advanced suite of static and dynamic tools for memory debugging, application profiling and multi-core optimizations, as well as libraries targeting the high performance market."

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VariCAD releases VariCAD 2007 2.01

VariCAD has released version 2.01 of its 3D/2D mechanical CAD system for Linux and Windows. "The new VariCAD 2007 2.01 brings many useful improvements, which include: completely new tools for 3D shells, 3D pipelines and 3D wires; a substantially improved 3D editing function allowing more complex editing, significantly improved STEP file import; new 3D checking functions and an extended tutorial and quick demonstration with new Flash examples".

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Xandros signs up with Microsoft

Xandros and Microsoft have announced a deal involving systems management interoperability, sharing office documents, joint sales, and, inevitably, patents. "Through the agreement, Microsoft will make available patent covenants for Xandros customers. These covenants will provide customers with confidence that the Xandros technologies they use and deploy in their environments are compliant with Microsoft's intellectual property. By putting a framework in place to share intellectual property, Xandros and Microsoft can speed the development of interoperable solutions."

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New Books

bash Cookbook - O'Reilly's Latest Release

O'Reilly has published the book bash Cookbook by Carl Albing, JP Vossen, and Cameron Newham.

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Manage It! New from Pragmatic Bookshelf

Pragmatic Bookshelf has published the book Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management by Johanna Rothman.

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Contests and Awards

Andrew S. Tanenbaum to Receive IEEE Medal

The IEEE will be rewarding Andrew S. Tanenbaum with the 2007 IEEE James H. Mulligan Jr. Education Medal. "Known by Some as the "Grandfather of Linux," over a Million Students Worldwide Have Studied Tanenbaum's Textbooks The IEEE has named Dr. Andrew S. Tanenbaum as the recipient of its 2007 IEEE James H. Mulligan Jr. Education Medal, in recognition of over three decades worth of his contributions to the field of computer science."

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Calls for Presentations

BCS'07 Call For Papers

A call for papers has gone out for the BCS'07 information security & hacking conference. The event will take place in Jakarta, Indonesia on October 30 and 31, 2007. Submissions are due by June 30.

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Upcoming Events

64 Studio music workshops in the UK this summer

Two 64 Studio workshops have been announced. They will take place in conjunction with Debian Day in Edinburgh, Scotland on June 16 and LugRadio Live in Wolverhampton, UK on July 8.

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Events: June 14, 2007 to August 13, 2007

The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.

Date(s)	Event	Location
June 10 June 15	DebCamp	Edinburgh, Scotland
June 11 June 14	Third International Conference on Open Source Systems	Limerick, Ireland
June 13 June 15	Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit	Mountain View, CA, USA
June 16	DebianDay	Edinburgh, Scotland
June 16	Firefox Developer Conference	Tokyo, Japan
June 17 June 23	Debian Developer Conference	Edinburgh, Scotland
June 17 June 22	2007 USENIX Annual Technical Conference	Santa Clara, USA
June 18 June 20	O'Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference	San Jose, CA, USA
June 18 June 20	Advanced Workshop on GCC Internals	Bombay, India
June 20 June 22	IT Underground	Dublin, Ireland
June 20	Open Source Showcase @ OpenAdvantage	Birmingham, UK
June 23	Mozilla Developer Day	Paris, France
June 25 June 27	SOA World Conference and Expo 2007	New York, NY, USA
June 27 June 30	2007 Linux Symposium	Ottawa, Canada
June 27 June 29	Summer School of Sound	Lancaster, UK
June 29	NLUUG event theme innovation Enschede	Enschede, the Netherlands
June 30 July 7	Akademy 2007	Glasgow, Scotland
July 2 July 6	Learning Programming with PHP	Redditch, Worcestershire, UK
July 6	II WHYFLOSS CONFERENCE MADRID	Madrid, Spain
July 7	Italian PostgreSQL Day	Prato, Tuscany, Italy
July 7 July 8	LugRadio Live 2007	Wolverhampton, United Kingdom
July 9 July 11	EuroPython 2007	Vilnius, Lithuania
July 9 July 13	PostgreSQL 8.2 Bootcamp at the Big Nerd Ranch	Atlanta, USA
July 10 July 11	The Linux Foundation Japan Symposium	Tokyo, Japan
July 12 July 13	IV GUADEC-ES	Granada, Spain
July 12 July 13	DIMVA 2007	Lucerne, Switzerland
July 14	UK Gentoo Meeting 2007	London, UK
July 15 July 21	GNOME Users' And Developers' European Conference	Birmingham, England
July 18 July 20	GCC and GNU Toolchain Developers' Summit	Ottawa, Canada
July 22 July 24	Ubuntu Live	Portland, OR, USA
July 23 July 27	O'Reilly Open Source Convention	Portland, OR, USA
July 23 July 27	Asterisk Bootcamp with Jared Smith at Big Nerd Ranch	Atlanta, USA
July 23 July 25	Open Group Enterprise Architecture Practitioners Conference	Austin, TX, USA
July 24 July 27	Ninth course on the Exim mail transfer agent	Cambridge, UK
July 28 August 2	Black Hat USA 2007	Las Vegas, NV, USA
July 30 August 3	Ruby on Rails Bootcamp at the Big Nerd Ranch	Atlanta, USA
August 3 August 5	Wikimania 2007 (Annual Wikimedia conference)	Taipei, Taiwan
August 3 August 5	DefCon 15	Las Vegas, NV, USA
August 4 August 7	LinuxWorld Conference & Expo	San Francisco, CA, USA
August 6 August 10	16th USENIX Security Symposium	Boston, MA, USA
August 6 August 9	LinuxWorld Conference and Expo	San Francisco, CA, USA
August 7 August 9	Flash Memory Summit 2007	Santa Clara, CA, USA
August 7 August 11	7as Jornadas Regionales de Software Libre	Córdoba, Argentina
August 8 August 12	Chaos Communication Camp	Finow airport, Germany
August 10	August Penguin 2007	Tel Aviv, Israel
August 11	Picn*x XVI - The Linux 16th Anniversary Picnic	Sunnyvale, CA, USA
August 11 August 15	Virtual FudCon8	Online, IRC

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