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AnnouncementsBrief items The Qt Project is about to launchThe "Qt Project," being the new governance structure for Qt, has announced its existence. "Since the Open Governance Model discussions started in July 2010, we have worked closely with the community to restructure the code base, design the governance structure, prepare the tooling, and define a contribution model for individuals and companies. And, we are excited to have a system in place that will be rolled out just five weeks from now."Some more information can be found in this supplemental posting by chief maintainer Lars Knoll. "I want to make it very clear that the foundation will not steer the project in any way. The foundation is in place only to cover the costs of hosting and run the infrastructure. All technical decisions, as well as decisions about the project direction, will be taken by the community of Contributors, Approvers and Maintainers. For example this means that people in Nokia working on Qt will start working with Qt as an upstream project. Everyone will be using the same infrastructure, including mailing lists and IRC."
Articles of interest FSF's Star Turn in the Android FUDathon (LinuxInsider)LinuxInsider is running an opinionated four-part series on the "GPLv2 death penalty" discussion and the Free Software Foundation's role in it. "While it is true that section 4 of the GPLv2 license terminates your right to redistribute when you fall out of compliance, section 6 is equally clear when it states that you get a valid license from the copyright-holder with each new copy you receive. Resuming distribution is simply a matter of returning to compliance and downloading a new copy. It's true that this won't 'fix' previous compliance problems; depending on their nature, they may have to be negotiated with the copyright-holders or decided by a court, but the threat of the ultimate "big stick" -- of never being able to resume distribution with the new license automatically granted under section 6 -- is an attempt to impose restrictions that neither a plain reading of the license nor the rules dealing with take-it-or-leave-it contracts allows."
Perens: The Covenant - A New Approach to Open Source CooperationBruce Perens has posted a description of a scheme he came up with to make copyright assignment policies more acceptable to developers. The article is long, but the idea is straightforward: "A company can covenant, to each contributor of a copyright, to continue to support and maintain a project as Open Source, for a fixed period after a particular contribution - or to remove the contribution from their product if they cannot continue to Open Source their work. In this way, the Open Source developer would be assured of the continuing labor of paid developers on the project in exchange for his contribution, and thus the continued improvement of the program that he uses gratis as a community participant. By making the promise in exchange for the participation of the entire Open Source community, the company will have a better idea of the value it is expending and the value it receives than if it attempted to pay piecemeal for modifications. This covenant is renewed each time there is a new copyright assignment, in that the three-year counter starts anew every time the company receives a contribution from a developer. Thus, developers continue to be encouraged to contribute their copyrights to the company."
Upcoming Events GStreamer Conference 2011The schedule for the GStreamer Conference 2011 is available. "This year the GStreamer Conference includes presentations from the whole field of open source multimedia, not just GStreamer, with the goal for it to be the premier annual event for all things multimedia on linux and other open platforms." The conference takes place October 24-25 in Prague, Czech Republic.
linux.conf.au 2012 schedule now availableThis linux.conf.au organizing team has released a draft schedule for the January 2012 conference. "The Papers Committee worked incredibly hard to sift through the high quality submissions and select an array of presentations which are engaging and entertaining while delivering in-depth info across a variety of topics. There's something for everyone in this schedule, from those interested in kernel development, open hardware, community or packaging to the increasingly popular FOSS music and multimedia. It's going to be amazing! Both the Papers Committee and Organising Team were very enthusiastic about the high rate of talks accepted from female speakers - without any acceptance bias being needed in the selection process. Nearly a quarter of accepted talks will be given by female presenters - an encouraging sign of progress in the traditionally male-oriented conference."
Events: September 22, 2011 to November 21, 2011The following event listing is taken from the LWN.net Calendar.
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