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Friday, March 24th, 2017

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    11:27a
    Relicensing OpenSSL
    Back in 2015, the OpenSSL project announced its intent to move away from its rather quirky license. Now it has announced that the change is moving forward. "After careful review, consultation with other projects, and input from the Core Infrastructure Initiative and legal counsel from the SFLC, the OpenSSL team decided to relicense the code under the widely-used ASLv2." It is worth noting that this change and the way it is being pursued are not universally popular, in the OpenBSD camp, at least.
    3:23p
    Security updates for Friday
    Security updates have been issued by Arch Linux (libpurple), Debian (audiofile, cgiemail, and imagemagick), Fedora (cloud-init, empathy, and mupdf), Mageia (firefox and thunderbird), Scientific Linux (icoutils and openjpeg), Slackware (mcabber and samba), and Ubuntu (eglibc).
    6:49p
    Eudyptula Challenge Status report
    The Eudyptula Challenge is a
    series of programming exercises for the Linux kernel. It starts from a
    very basic "Hello world" kernel module, moves up in complexity to getting
    patches accepted into the main kernel. The challenge
    will be closed to new participants in a few months, when 20,000 people have
    signed up. LWN covered the Eudyptula Challenge in May 2014,
    when it was fairly new. At this time over 19,000 people have signed up and
    only 149 have finished.

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