Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 15, 2026
This edition contains the following feature content:
- SFC v. VIZIO: who can enforce the GPL?: a look at the upcoming trial that might hand users the right to sue for source code.
- GPLv2 and installation requirements: what does the GPL actually require distributors to provide?
- Debian discusses removing GTK 2 for forky: despite its age and obsolescence, many applications still depend on the toolkit.
- Format-specific compression with OpenZL: how organizations might create specialized compressors for improved compression and speed.
- A high-level quality-of-service interface: giving end users control over the Linux scheduler.
- READ_ONCE(), WRITE_ONCE(), but not for Rust: taking a different approach to concurrent data access.
- Asciinema: making movies at the command-line: a better tool for creating and sharing recordings of terminal sessions.
This week's edition also includes these inner pages:
- Brief items: Brief news items from throughout the community.
- Announcements: Newsletters, conferences, security updates, patches, and more.
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