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AnnouncementsNon-Commercial announcements Apple: why iPhone jailbreaking should not be allowedHere, by way of this EFF advisory, is Apple's plea to the Library of Congress [PDF] against a DMCA exemption which would allow jailbreaking on locked phones. "The acts of circumvention that the exemption would permit would result in infringing uses of copyrighted firmware stored on smart phones and of copyrighted content that runs on those phones, thereby failing the fundamental prerequisite requirement of Section 1201(a)(1)(B) for an exemption. Although that fact alone should preempt any need for further consideration, the proposed exemption should also be rejected because of a host of bad consequences that will flow from it. In the case of the iPhone, it will destroy the 'chain of trust' that Apple has carefully engineered into the product to protect users from serious functional problems that often result from unauthorized modifications to the device's OS."
Call for Prior ArtRed Hat and Novell have been accused of patent infringement. "IP Innovation L.L.C. and Technology Licensing Corporation (collectively, "Plaintiffs") have brought a patent-infringement action against Red Hat, Inc., and Novell, Inc., alleging infringement of U.S. Patent Numbers 5,072,412; 5,533,183; and 5,394,521. The patents concern a user interface that has multiple workspaces. The Plaintiffs' complaint identifies as accused products "Red Hat Linux system," the "Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop," and the "Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Server."" This site has link where you can submit prior art to combat this claim.
Sun RPC code to be relicensedHere's a weblog entry by Simon Phipps describing the difficulties involved in changing the licensing of really old software - and the Sun RPC code in particular. This code has been the subject of some worry for years now, since its license is not truly free. At the end of Simon's posting, he announces: "On Saturday I was able to tell Europe's Free Software developers that the licenses on the RPC code are no longer a barrier to Free software - we'll change the license to Sun's copyrights in the RPC code to a standard 3-clause BSD license, allowing inheritance of that licensing by both Debian and Fedora. I'm delighted to have been able to fix this problem, which arose not because of failure but because of the success of software freedom over many years and because of Sun's early commitment to it."
Commercial announcements Red Hat Moves to Expand Server Virtualization InteroperabilityRed Hat has announced a virtualization interoperability agreement with Microsoft. "Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that, in response to strong customer demand, it has signed reciprocal agreements with Microsoft Corporation to enable increased interoperability for the companies' virtualization platforms. Each company will join the other's virtualization validation/certification program and will provide coordinated technical support for their mutual server virtualization customers. The reciprocal validations will allow customers to deploy heterogeneous, virtualized Red Hat and Microsoft solutions with confidence."
Contests and Awards The 2008 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award winnersThe 2008 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Award Winners have been announced. "The polls are closed and the results are in. We had a record number of votes cast for the eighth straight year. Congratulations should go to each and every nominee. We once again had some extremely close races and a couple multi-year winners were unseated."
Calls for Presentations ACM CCS '09: Call for workshop proposalsA call for proposals has gone out for the 2009 ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security. The event takes place in Chicago, IL on November 9-13, 2009. Submissions are due by February 28. "Proposals are solicited for workshops to be held in conjunction with ACM CCS 2009. Each workshop provides a forum to address a specific topic at the forefront of security research. A workshop must be a full day in length."
2009 Linux Plumbers Conference Call For TopicsThe 2009 Linux Plumbers Conference is currently in an early stage of its organization process. To carry things forward, the LPC organizers are currently soliciting ideas for overall topics to be discussed at this year's event. They have asked, in particular, for input from LWN readers, who are invited to post their ideas as comments to this article. If you have some thoughts on what would make a good discussion topic, please take a moment to post them here.
Upcoming Events PyCon blog badges are avalableBlog badges for promoting the upcoming PyCon are available. "If you blog, please let your readers know about PyCon. A blog badge is a nice way to enhance such a post."![[PyCon 2009: Chicago]](/images/ns/pycon2009strip.png){kind=small}
Events: February 26, 2009 to April 27, 2009The 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 Business of Open Source videos from LCA availableFOSSBazaar is hosting videos of the Business of Open Source mini-conference at Linux.conf.au (LCA). "The goal of this mini-conf was to share and learn about non-coding business aspects of making an open source project successful. Speakers include Jacinta Richardson (Running an open source training business), Bdale Garbee (Collaborating Successfully with Large Corporations), Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier (Marketing open source projects) and others."
FOSDEM videos releasedVideos from the Debian devroom at FOSDEM are available (click below for more information). LinuxMagazine also has videos of the Micro Distro Summit. "Nils Magnus of Linux Magazine Online pulled together the heads of three Linux distros for an interview and put them in a video: openSUSE's Joe Brockmeier, Debian's Steve McIntyre and Red Hat's Max Spevack."
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