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Wednesday, May 27th, 2015
| Time |
Event |
| 1:40a |
Jonathan Riddell forced out of Kubuntu Scott Kitterman has posted a
series of emails around the the Ubuntu Community Council's decision to remove Jonathan Riddell as the leader of the Kubuntu project. He has also stated
his intent to leave the Ubuntu community. " I also wish to extend
my personal apology to the Kubuntu community for keeping this private for
as long as we did. Generally, I don’t believe such an approach is
consistent with our values, but I supported keeping it private in the hope
that it would be easier to achieve a mutually beneficial resolution of the
situation privately. Now that it’s clear that is not going to happen, I
(and others in the KC) could not in good faith keep this private." | | 2:06p |
Mourning Marco Pesenti Gritti
The GNOME community is mourning the loss of developer Marco Pesenti Gritti,
who passed away on May 23. "He was the most passionate and dedicated hacker I knew, and I know he was
extremely respected in the GNOME community, for his work on Epiphany,
Evince and Sugar among many others, just like he was at litl. Those who
knew him personally know he was also an awesome human being." | | 4:18p |
Wednesday's security updates Debian has updated ntfs-3g
(incomplete fix in previous update).
Debian-LTS has updated ntfs-3g
(incomplete fix in previous update).
Red Hat has updated kernel
(RHEL6.4: privilege escalation) and qemu-kvm (RHEL6.5: code execution).
Ubuntu has updated ntfs-3g
(15.04: incomplete fix in previous update) and openldap (15.04, 14.10, 14.04, 12.04: denial of service). | | 8:21p |
White House sides with Oracle, tells Supreme Court APIs are copyrightable (ArsTechnica) Ars Technica reportsthat the US Justice Department has sided with Oracle in its dispute with Google. " The dispute centers on Google copying names, declarations, and header lines of the Java APIs in Android. Oracle filed suit, and in 2012, a San Francisco federal judge sided with Google. The judge ruled that the code in question could not be copyrighted. Oracle prevailed on appeal, however. A federal appeals court ruled that the "declaring code and the structure, sequence, and organization of the API packages are entitled to copyright protection."
Google maintained that the code at issue is not entitled to copyright
protection because it constitutes a "method of operation" or "system" that
allows programs to communicate with one another." (Thanks to Martin Michlmayr) |
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