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Wednesday, July 15th, 2015
| Time |
Event |
| 10:23a |
An interview with Larry Wall (LinuxVoice) LinuxVoice has an interview with Perl creator Larry Wall. " So I was the language designer, but I was almost explicitly told: 'Stay out of the implementation! We saw what you did made out of Perl 5, and we don’t like it!' It was really funny because the innards of the new implementation started looking a whole lot like Perl 5 inside, and maybe that’s why some of the early implementations didn’t work well." | | 2:49p |
FSF and SFC work with Canonical on an "intellectual property" policy update The Free Software Foundation (FSF) and Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) have both put out statements about a change to the Canonical, Ltd. "intellectual property" policy that was negotiated over the last two years ( FSF statement and SFC statement). Effectively, Canonical has added a "trump clause" that clarifies that the licenses of the individual packages override the Canonical policy when there is a conflict. Though, as SFC points out: " While a trump clause is a reasonable way to comply with the GPL in a secondary licensing document, the solution is far from ideal. Redistributors of Ubuntu have little choice but to become expert analysts of Canonical, Ltd.'s policy. They must identify on their own every place where the policy contradicts the GPL. If a dispute arises on a subtle issue, Canonical, Ltd. could take legal action, arguing that the redistributor's interpretation of GPL was incorrect. Even if the redistributor was correct that the GPL trumped some specific clause in Canonical, Ltd.'s policy, it may be costly to adjudicate the issue." While backing the change made, both FSF and SFC recommend further changes to make the situation even more clear. | | 4:22p |
Security updates for Wednesday openSUSE has updated cups-filters
(13.2: multiple vulnerabilities) and libunwind (13.2; 13.1: buffer overflow).
Oracle has updated kernel (OL6: multiple vulnerabilities).
Red Hat has updated java-1.7.0-openjdk (RHEL6,7; RHEL5: multiple vulnerabilities) and java-1.8.0-openjdk (RHEL6,7: multiple vulnerabilities).
Ubuntu has updated firefox
(12.04: multiple vulnerabilities). | | 6:11p |
Bruce Schneier: IT Teams Need Cyberattack Response Planning More Than Prevention
(Linux.com) Linux.com has an interviewwith Bruce Schneier. " Schneier: The most important takeaway is that we are all vulnerable to this sort of attack. Whether it's nation-state hackers (Sony), hactivists (HB Gary Federal, Hacking Team), insiders (NSA, US State Department), or who-knows-who (Saudi Arabia), stealing and publishing an organization's internal documents can be a devastating attack. We need to think more about this tactic: less how to prevent it -- we're already doing that and it's not working -- and more how to deal with it. Because as more people wake up and realize how devastating an attack it is, the more we're going to see it." | | 6:34p |
[$] Python 3.5 is on its way
It has been nearly a year and a half since the last major Python release,
which was 3.4 in March 2014—that means it is about time for
Python 3.5. We looked at some of the new
features in 3.4 at the time of its first release candidate, so the announcement of the penultimate beta release
for 3.5 seems like a good time to see what will be coming in the new release.
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