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VMware update to GPL-enforcement suit

VMware has published a statement on the lawsuit filed by Christoph Hellwig alleging copyright infringement. "On March 5, 2015, Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) announced a lawsuit in Germany, filed by Christoph Hellwig against VMware, alleging a failure to comply with the General Public License (GPL). We believe the lawsuit is without merit, and we are disappointed that the SFC and plaintiff have resorted to litigation given the considerable efforts we have made to understand and address their concerns. We see huge value in supporting multiple development methodologies, including free and open source software, and we appreciate the crucial role of free and open source software in the data center. In particular, VMware devotes significant effort supporting customer usage of Linux and F/OSS based software stacks and workloads." LWN recently covered the lawsuit. (Thanks to Emmanuel Seyman)

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News from the FSF

The Free Software Foundation has issued a statement supporting the suit against VMWare. "Unfortunately, VMware has broken this promise by not releasing the source code for the version of the operating system kernel they distribute with their ESXi software. Now, after [many years][3] of trying to work with VMware amicably, the Software Freedom Conservancy and Hellwig have sought the help of German courts to resolve the matter. While the Free Software Foundation (FSF) is not directly involved in the suit, we support the effort."

The FSF has also announced a new web portal, my.fsf.org, for its members and for non-member donations.

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GNU Tools Cauldron 2015 - Call for Abstracts and Participation

GNU Tools Cauldron will take place August 7-9 in Prague, Czech Republic. "The purpose of this workshop is to gather all GNU tools developers, discuss current/future work, coordinate efforts, exchange reports on ongoing efforts, discuss development plans for the next 12 months, developer tutorials and any other related discussions." The call for participation deadline is April 30.

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CFP Deadlines: March 12, 2015 to May 11, 2015

The following listing of CFP deadlines is taken from the LWN.net CFP Calendar.

Deadline	Event Dates	Event	Location
March 15	May 7 May 9	Linuxwochen Wien 2015	Wien, Austria
March 15	May 16 May 17	MiniDebConf Bucharest 2015	Bucharest, Romania
March 31	July 25 July 31	Akademy 2015	A Coruña, Spain
March 31	May 4 May 5	CoreOS Fest	San Francisco, CA, USA
April 3	May 2 May 3	Kolab Summit 2015	The Hague, Netherlands
April 4	May 30 May 31	Linuxwochen Linz 2015	Linz, Austria
April 6	May 20 May 22	SciPy Latin America 2015	Posadas, Misiones, Argentina
April 14	April 14 April 15	Palmetto Open Source Software Conference	Columbia, SC, USA
April 15	June 12 June 14	Southeast Linux Fest	Charlotte, NC, USA
April 17	June 11 June 12	infoShare 2015	Gdańsk, Poland
April 28	July 20 July 26	EuroPython 2015	Bilbao, Spain
April 30	August 7 August 9	GNU Tools Cauldron 2015	Prague, Czech Republic
May 1	August 17 August 19	LinuxCon North America	Seattle, WA, USA
May 1	September 10 September 13	International Conference on Open Source Software Computing 2015	Amman, Jordan
May 1	August 19 August 21	KVM Forum 2015	Seattle, WA, USA
May 1	August 19 August 21	Linux Plumbers Conference	Seattle, WA, USA
May 2	August 12 August 15	Flock	Rochester, New York, USA
May 3	August 7 August 9	GUADEC	Gothenburg, Sweden
May 3	May 23 May 24	Debian/Ubuntu Community Conference Italia - 2015	Milan, Italy
May 8	July 31 August 4	PyCon Australia 2015	Brisbane, Australia

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Kansas Linux Fest

The talks at Kansas Linux Fest have been announced. "There will be over twenty presenters giving technical presentations and hands-on workshops throughout the conference. Presenters include Dave Lester, Twitter's open source advocate, Frank Wiles, Revolution Systems, and Hal Gottfried, Open Hardware Group Kansas City CCCKC. Alan Robertson of Assimilation Systems will be presenting on an open source network security system. Oracle's MySQL community manager, Dave Stokes, will be presenting two technical talks on MySQL, a popular relational database. Researchers from KU and K-State and Wichita State University will be presenting as well as Linux User Groups in Wichita and Omaha. Presentations on mobile phone security and open source phone hardware as well as system and cloud security are planned." Kansas Linux Fest will take place March 21-22 in Lawrence, Kansas.

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LibrePlanet free software conference

The Free Software Foundation (FSF) and MIT's Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) have teamed up to bring LibrePlanet to Cambridge, MA, March 21-22. "LibrePlanet is an annual conference for people who care about their digital freedoms, bringing together software developers, policy experts, activists, and computer users to learn skills, share accomplishments, and face challenges facing the free software movement. LibrePlanet 2015 will feature programming for all ages and experience levels."

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Events: March 12, 2015 to May 11, 2015

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

Date(s)	Event	Location
March 9 March 12	FOSS4G North America	San Francisco, CA, USA
March 11 March 12	Vault Linux Storage and Filesystems Conference	Boston, MA, USA
March 12 March 14	Studencki Festiwal Informatyczny / Academic IT Festival	Cracow, Poland
March 13 March 15	FOSSASIA	Singapore
March 13 March 15	GStreamer Hackfest 2015	London, UK
March 16 March 17	SREcon15	Santa Clara, CA, USA
March 17 March 19	OpenPOWER Summit	San Jose, CA, USA
March 21 March 22	LibrePlanet 2015	Cambridge, MA, USA
March 21 March 22	Kansas Linux Fest	Lawrence, Kansas, USA
March 23 March 25	Android Builders Summit	San Jose, CA, USA
March 23 March 25	Embedded Linux Conference	San Jose, CA, USA
March 24 March 26	FLOSSUK DevOps Conference	York, UK
March 25 March 27	PGConf US 2015	New York City, NY, USA
March 26	Enlightenment Developers Day North America	Mountain View, CA, USA
March 28 March 29	Journées du Logiciel Libre	Lyon, France
April 9 April 12	Linux Audio Conference	Mainz, Germany
April 10 April 12	PyCon North America 2015	Montreal, Canada
April 11 April 12	Lyon mini-DebConf 2015	Lyon, France
April 13 April 17	SEA Conference	Boulder, CO, USA
April 13 April 17	ApacheCon North America	Austin, TX, USA
April 13 April 14	AdaCamp Montreal	Montreal, Quebec, Canada
April 13 April 14	2015 European LLVM Conference	London, UK
April 14 April 15	Palmetto Open Source Software Conference	Columbia, SC, USA
April 16 April 17	Global Conference on Cyberspace	The Hague, Netherlands
April 17 April 19	Dni Wolnego Oprogramowania / The Open Source Days	Bielsko-Biała, Poland
April 21	pgDay Paris	Paris, France
April 21 April 23	Open Source Data Center Conference	Berlin, Germany
April 23	Open Source Day	Warsaw, Poland
April 24	Puppet Camp Berlin 2015	Berlin, Germany
April 24 April 25	Grazer Linuxtage	Graz, Austria
April 25 April 26	LinuxFest Northwest	Bellingham, WA, USA
April 29 May 2	Libre Graphics Meeting 2015	Toronto, Canada
May 1 May 4	openSUSE Conference	The Hague, Netherlands
May 2 May 3	Kolab Summit 2015	The Hague, Netherlands
May 4 May 5	CoreOS Fest	San Francisco, CA, USA
May 6 May 8	German Perl Workshop 2015	Dresden, Germany
May 7 May 9	Linuxwochen Wien 2015	Wien, Austria
May 8 May 10	Open Source Developers' Conference Nordic	Oslo, Norway

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