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Thursday, July 1st, 2021
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| 1:00a |
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 1, 2021
The LWN.net Weekly Edition for July 1, 2021 is available. | | 12:16p |
Security updates for Thursday
Security updates have been issued by Debian (htmldoc, ipmitool, and node-bl), Fedora (libgcrypt and libtpms), Mageia (dhcp, glibc, p7zip, sqlite3, systemd, and thunar), openSUSE (arpwatch, go1.15, and kernel), SUSE (curl, dbus-1, go1.15, and qemu), and Ubuntu (xorg-server). | | 3:25p |
[$] Core scheduling lands in 5.14 The core scheduling feature has been under discussion for over three years. For those who need it, the wait is over at last; core scheduling was merged for the 5.14 kernel release. Now that this work has reached a (presumably) final form, a look at why this feature makes sense and how it works is warranted. Core scheduling is not for everybody, but it may prove to be quite useful for some user communities. | | 5:25p |
Kuhn: It Matters Who Owns Your Copylefted Copyrights Bradley Kuhn has posted a
lengthy missive on the Software Freedom Conservancy blog about the
hazards of distributed copyright ownership.
As a result, in debates about copyright ownership, discussions of
what policy contributors want regarding the fruits of their labor
is sadly moot. Without a clear, organized mitigation strategy to
assure that FOSS contributors keep their own copyrights, a project
(such as GCC or glibc) that switches from a standing “(nearly) all
copyrights assigned to a charity” model to a plain Developer
Certificate of Origin (DCO) or naked inbound=outbound contributor
arrangement will, after a period of years, mostly likely to have
copyrights that are primarily held by the employers of the most
prolific contributors, rather than by the contributors themselves.
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