Welcome to the LWN.net Weekly Edition for November 8, 2018
This edition contains the following feature content:
- Protecting the open-source license commons: Richard Fontana talks about the risks inherent in shared licenses and how we can protect our licensing.
- A "joke" in the glibc manual: a new attempt to remove an old joke.
- Zinc: a new kernel cryptography API: a Kernel Recipes talk on the new cryptographic subsystem underlying WireGuard.
- 4.20 Merge window part 2: the rest of what was merged for this development cycle.
- Limiting the power of package installation in Debian: package installation can corrupt a system in many ways; what can be done to reduce the risk?
- SpamAssassin is back: after a slow period, SpamAssassin is back up to speed and adding new features.
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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