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Tuesday, February 11th, 2014

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    3:09p
    The Debian technical committee vote concludes
    All of the votes are in on the simplified ballot to choose the default init
    system for the Debian "jessie" release (on Linux). The Condorcet process
    left systemd and upstart tied with four votes each; committee chair Bdale
    Garbee has now used his casting vote in favor of systemd. That ends one
    chapter of the debate, though the chances of this decision being reviewed
    via a general resolution seem high.
    6:05p
    Tuesday's security updates

    CentOS has updated wget (C6: code execution).

    Debian has updated pidgin (multiple vulnerabilities).

    Gentoo has updated roundcube (code execution).

    Mageia has updated darktable (MG3: denial of service), flite (insecure temporary files), icedtea-web (insecure temporary file use), kernel-linus (MG3: multiple vulnerabilities), kernel-rt (MG3: multiple vulnerabilities), kernel-tmb (MG3: multiple vulnerabilities), kernel-tmb (MG4: privilege escalation), seamonkey (multiple vulnerabilities), and springframework (MG3: denial of service).

    Mandriva has updated pidgin (multiple vulnerabilities).

    Oracle has updated wget (OL6: code execution).

    Red Hat has updated wget (RHEL6: code execution from 2010).

    Scientific Linux has updated wget (SL6: code execution).

    Ubuntu has updated firefox (multiple vulnerabilities) and libgadu (buffer overflow).

    9:19p
    Top 10 legal issues for free software of 2013 (opensource.com)
    Opensource.com covers some
    legal issues     faced in 2013. Topics include Android patent litigation,
    license compliance, forks, enforcement, GitHub's license selection policy,
    good news in the patent wars, FOSS in government and in the private sector,
    contributor agreements, and collaborations. "On June 14, 2013, the district court of Hamburg found that Fantec violated the obligation in the GPLv2 to provide to its customers the "complete corresponding source code" of the software. Fantec objected that it had been assured by its Chinese supplier that the source code received from the supplier was complete. And Fantec claimed that they had investigated options with third parties for source code analysis and had been informed that such reviews were quite expensive and not completely reliable. The court rejected these excuses."

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