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Wednesday, October 14th, 2015

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    1:19p
    [$] WiFi routers: from lockdown to lock-open
    There has been a lot of concern recently that a new
    set of rules [PDF]     from the
    US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) could lead to locking-down of
    home router devices. It appears that the worst-case scenario feared by
    many will not come to pass, but that has not stopped a large, high-profile
    group of developers from putting together a detailed counter-proposal
    to the FCC     that could change the game entirely. Not content with fending
    off the lockdown threat, this group seeks to push the pendulum the other
    way by forcing router software to be open. The result, it is said, would be an
    Internet that performs better and which is much more secure.
    4:34p
    Security advisories for Wednesday

    Arch Linux has updated chromium (multiple vulnerabilities) and flashplugin (multiple vulnerabilities).

    Fedora has updated icu (F22: multiple vulnerabilities), php (F22: multiple vulnerabilities), and xen (F22; F21: denial of service).

    Mageia has updated flash-player-plugin (multiple vulnerabilities), git (multiple vulnerabilities), openjpeg2 (code execution), and qemu (multiple vulnerabilities).

    openSUSE has updated polkit (13.2, 13.1: multiple vulnerabilities).

    SUSE has updated flash-player (SLE12; SLE11-SP3,4: multiple vulnerabilities).

    Ubuntu has updated gdk-pixbuf (15.04, 14.04, 12.04: two vulnerabilities).

    6:46p
    [$] Permissive licenses, community, and copyleft

    On the final day of LinuxCon Europe 2015, HP's Chief Technology Officer Martin Fink delivered a bold keynote about software licensing. Fink recapped the negative effects of license proliferation and addressed projects that use their choice of license as hostile act against the competition. He then ended the session with an extended appeal to move the open-source software industry away from permissive licenses like Apache 2.0 and toward copyleft licenses like the GPL. Not doing so, he said, puts the FOSS community at just as much risk of collapse as license proliferation threatened to in years past.

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