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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements Atheros driver code cleared by SFLC - againThe Software Freedom Law Center has announced that it has investigated the provenance of the OpenHAL code - part of the ongoing project to create a free Linux driver for Atheros-based wireless adapters - and pronounced it clean. "After performing the audit, SFLC concluded that OpenHAL does not infringe copyrights held by Atheros. As a result, OpenHAL development can now continue safely, unencumbered by legal uncertainty so long as the OpenHAL developers continue their work in isolation from Atheros' proprietary code." This is the second time the SFLC has looked into this code; last November they gave a clean bill of health to the OpenBSD ar5k driver upon which OpenHAL is based.
FSFE offers to help companies adhere to Free Software licence termsThe Free Software Foundation Europe is offering its help to companies who wish to adhere to free software licenses. "The terms of the GNU GPL licence have been confirmed as binding once again, with a German court ruling that Skype was failing to uphold its obligations as a distributor. FSFE wants to help other vendors understand their GNU GPL obligations. Harald Welte of gpl-violations.org took Skype to court in Munich, Germany, regarding misuse of GNU GPL code he wrote for the Netfilter component of the Linux kernel. This is the first time a non-German company has been convicted for GNU GPL licence violations, though the gpl-violations.org project has reached numerous out of court settlements with various vendors in the past."
Industry leaders submit identity governance framework to openLiberty.orgThe Liberty Alliance has announced some new IGF milestones. "Liberty Alliance, the global identity consortium working to build a more trusted Internet for consumers, governments and businesses worldwide, today announced two key milestones for the Identity Governance Framework (IGF). Today, industry leaders submitted IGF to openLiberty.org for open source development of IGF implementations. Liberty Alliance also announced the ratification of market requirements documentation (MRD) for IGF and the commencement of technical specification work."
The OpenBSD Foundation launchesThe OpenBSD Foundation has announced its existence. "The OpenBSD Foundation has been formed for the purpose of supporting the OpenBSD project, and related projects such as OpenSSH, OpenBGPD, OpenNTPD, and OpenCVS. In particular it will act as a single point of contact for persons and organizations requiring a legal entity to deal with when they wish to support OpenBSD in any way." More information can be found on the foundation's web site.
Commercial announcements Alfresco becomes an Open Invention Network licenseeAlfresco Software, Inc. has announced that it has become an Open Invention Network licensee. "Alfresco is one of the first Open Invention Network startup licensees, joining a growing number of leading information technology firms that are dedicated to maintaining the health, vitality and collaborative power of Linux. Open Invention Network (OIN) is an intellectual property company that was formed in 2005 to promote Linux by using patents to create a collaborative environment. Open Invention Network promotes a positive, fertile ecosystem for Linux, which in turn drives innovation and choice in the global marketplace."
Concurrent releases new version of debugging tools for LinuxConcurrent has announced version 4.1 of its commercial NightStar LX debugging and analysis tools for Linux. "NightStar is a powerful, integrated tool set for developing and tuning time-critical 32-bit and 64-bit applications. The tools reduce test time, increase productivity and lower development costs. New features introduced in version 4.1 include the Qt graphical user interface (GUI) for improved use on multi-core environments and an application illumination feature allowing programmers to automatically trace application function calls along with programmer customization and examine the values of parameters passed and returned."
Enea open-sources LINX for LinuxEnea has announced the release of its LINX for Linux product as open-source. "LINX(TM) for Linux delivers transparent, reliable, high- performance interprocess communication services for complex distributed systems that employ multiple operating systems. LINX for Linux provides a system-wide, high-performance IPC solution that eliminates the need to use multiple IPC services in the same system."
ITema Releases E-Commerce module for MODx CMSITema, Inc. has announced the GPL release of the KiweeCommerce e-commerce module for the MODx content management system. "KiweeCommerce includes extensive product configuration and options management tools, tax and discount rate tables, and support for PayPal, Google Checkout, and Authorize.Net payment gateways. The module is tightly integrated into MODx, and allows business owners to easily maintain their own product catalogs. Administrators may configure and manage KiweeCommerce through intuitive menus in the MODx CMS Manager."
Keithley Instruments reports 3Q 2007 resultsKeithley Instruments, Inc. has announced its third quarter 2007 fiscal results. Buried within the report we find: "In July, we announced a migration to the Linux Operating System for our S600 Series Parametric Test Systems. This new capability provides a more stable operating system and provides for a longer service life which ultimately reduces our customers' overall cost of test.""
Linspire Joins Interop Vendor Alliance ProgramLinspire, Inc. has announced its joining of the Interop Vendor Alliance. "Linspire, Inc., developer of the Linspire commercial and Freespire community desktop Linux operating systems, today announced its membership in the Interop Vendor Alliance with Microsoft, Novell, Red Hat and other industry leaders. The Interop Vendor Alliance community of software and hardware vendors was established to connect people, data and diverse systems through better interoperability."
rPath reaches one million appliance downloadsrPath has announced its one millionth software appliance download. Sources of the one million downloads of rPath-based appliances include rBuilder Online, as well as partner sites such as VMware's Virtual Appliance Marketplace (VAM). Reflecting the explosive growth in virtualization use, over 50% of the downloads were in virtual appliance format.
Contests and Awards Nominations Open for 2007 Linux Medical News Freedom Award (LinuxMedNews)LinuxMedNews has announced the nomination phase of the Linux Medical News Freedom Award. "Nominations are officially open for the 6th annual Linux Medical News Freedom Award to be presented at the November 10th-14th AMIA Fall conference at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, Illinois, USA. Deadline for entries is August 24th, 2007. This is NOT a officially sponsored award or event of AMIA. This award is co-sponsored by the IMIA Open Source Working Group. Free and open source software isn't 'magic pixie dust'. There are people making significant personal sacrifices as well as doing difficult work to make medicine's free software future a reality. This award is intended to honor the individual or project who has accomplished the most towards the goal of improving medical education and practice through free/open source medical software."
PyWeek Number 5 announcedThe fifth PyWeek Python Game Challenge has been announced. The online event starts on August 3, 2007.
SourceForge.net announces 2007 Community Choice Awards WinnersSourceForge has announced the winners of its second annual SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards. "Among the many winners, two projects won twice; 7-Zip for Best Project and Best Technical Design; Firebird for Best Project for the Enterprise and Best User Support. Instead of a standard awards ceremony, the party celebrated each winning project in a distinct and unique way. For three projects, a donation was made in the name of the winning project to a charity of their choice. For another project, the crowd was supplied with a special drink entitled "The Bar Coder" to toast the winner in style."
Second Annual SysAdmin of the Year Contest Launches to Celebrate the Rock Stars of ITAccording to this press release from Splunk Inc. the last Friday in July is System Administrator Appreciation Day. So thanks to all you SysAdmins out there. Splunk and others have launched a the "Is Your SysAdmin A Rock Star?" contest. The deadline for nominations is October 12, 2007.
Surveys What hardware is actually used by freebob/ffado users?Pieter Palmers is running a survey on Linux firewire audio usage. "With this I'm hoping to gather some data that can help us in convincing the firewire device manufacturers that we are of some significance to their sales (I'm actually wondering if we are...). So I would like to ask everyone on these lists that has/considers/considered purchasing a firewire audio device if they would be so kind as to answer the following questionnaire."
Event Reports GCC summit proceedings availableThe proceedings from the 2007 GCC Summit (PDF) are now available. It's interesting reading for anybody who is curious about where the GCC and GDB developers are going.
Upcoming Events Author and Professor Michael Sheetz to speak at AIU on CybercrimeMichael Sheetz will speak at AIU in Weston, Florida on August 7. "Computer hacking is a major concern for businesses and individuals alike, resulting in millions of dollars in annual revenue and personal losses. "How to Protect Yourself from Cybercrime" is the topic of Michael Sheetz, author and assistant professor of criminal justice at American InterContinental University (AIU), who will speak on Tuesday, August 7, at 6 p.m. at the AIU campus, 2250 N. Commerce Parkway, Weston. The event is free and open to the public."
IMIA OSWG meeting at medinfo2007 (LinuxMedNews)LinuxMedNews has announced an IMIA Open Source Working Group. "The 2007 business meeting of the IMIA Open Source Working Group will take place as follows: Sunday, 19 August 2007, from 5:30 - 7:30pm Venue: Room P3, Brisbane Convention Centre, Australia (in conjunction with medinfo2007)".
RailsConf Europe: major program updatesRailsConf Europe will take place on September 17-19, 2007 in Berlin, Germany. Several new speakers have recently been added.
Sun Grid Engine Workshop 2007The Sun Grid Engine Workshop 2007 will be held in Regensburg, Germany on September 10-12, 2007. "The Grid Engine technology from Sun Microsystems is a well established policy-based workload management software which is designed to run compute resource intensive applications and services for financial, business, engineering and research organizations in even the largest grids. The Sun Grid Engine software is the commercial version of the open source Grid Engine project. The workshop offers a venue for exchanging experiences among users, discuss needs with their peers and for getting in direct touch with the developers to give feedback and to receive an update on the most recent and coming enhancements."
Events: August 9, 2007 to October 8, 2007The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
If your event does not appear here, please tell us about it. Audio and Video programs Will Stephenson Talks KDE 4 on Novell Open Audio (KDE.News)KDE.News has announced a new Novell audio program. "The current edition of Novell Open Audio podcast features an interview with KDE core developer Will Stephenson. He discusses what is coming in KDE 4, Novell's commitment to KDE and the changes he has been working on recently."
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