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Jeremy Allison - Sam writes:
Richard Stallman, President of the FSF, presented Sandler with the award during a ceremony. Stallman highlighted Sandler's dedication to software freedom. Stallman told the crowd that Sandler's “vivid warning about backdoored nonfree software in implanted medical devices has brought the issue home to people who never wrote a line of code. Her efforts, usually not in the public eye, to provide pro bono legal advice to free software organizations and [with Software Freedom Conservancy] to organize infrastructure for free software projects and copyleft defense, have been equally helpful.”.
https://sfconservancy.org/news...
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Jeremy Allison - Sam writes:
Andrew Bartlett gave a great (short, only 10 mins) talk at LinuxConfAu talking about how the Samba Team is scaling up our Active Directory implementation on Linux.
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Jeremy Allison - Sam writes:
From: https://sfconservancy.org/blog...
"About a month ago, the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC), the not-for-profit law firm which launched Conservancy in 2006 and served as Conservancy's law firm until July 2011, took the bizarre and frivolous step of filing a legal action in the United States Patent and Trademark Office seeking cancellation of Conservancy's trademark for our name, “Software Freedom Conservancy”. "
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Jeremy Allison - Sam writes:
Report from the Samba Team on the storage developers conference, plus a trip to the Microsoft Campus in which we got Samba running on Windows (the Linux subsystem). What strange times we live in !
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Jeremy Allison - Sam writes:
I saw this talk live. Bradley did an amazing job ! I would recommend anyone interested in Copyleft or Free Software licensing or the Software Freedom Conservancy to watch !
(Disclosure, I'm on the Conservancy Board of Directors).
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Jeremy Allison - Sam writes:
"Do you know what this is? This is a non-Windows SMB file server running natively on Windows."
"To be more specific, this is a Virtualbox Ubuntu virtual machine running on Windows 10, grabbing a file across SMB from a Samba file server running inside the Windows Subsystem for Linux through Bash."
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Jeremy Allison - Sam writes:
Hellwig To Appeal VMware Ruling After Evidentiary Set Back in Lower Court
Christoph Hellwig announces today that he will appeal the ruling of the Hamburg District Court, which dismissed his case against VMware.
http://bombadil.infradead.org/...
https://sfconservancy.org/news...
"I'm disappointed that the court didn't even consider the actual case of reusing the Linux code written by me, and I hope the Court of Appeal will investigate this central aspect of the lawsuit."
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Jeremy Allison - Sam writes:
Great article by Alexander Bokovoy on how the "badlock" flaw was discovered and fixed, showing the coordination that has to go into a modern security release of Free Software.
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Jeremy Allison - Sam writes:
Interesting statement by rms and the FSF on "Interpreting, enforcing and changing the GNU GPL, as applied to combining Linux and ZFS"
https://www.fsf.org/news/inter...
https://www.fsf.org/licensing/...
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Jeremy Allison - Sam writes:
"Some companies have withdrawn from funding us and some have even successfully pressured conferences to cancel or prevent talks on our enforcement work. We do this work because we think that it is good for everyone in the long run, because we know it is the right thing to do, and because we know that we are in the best position to do it. But that's not enough — you have to think it's right too and show us by becoming a Supporter now."
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Jeremy Allison - Sam writes:
The Software Freedom Conservancy have reported an update on the progress of the lawsuit between Christoph Hellwig and VMware in Germany. VMware questions Christoph's copyright interest in the Linux kernel. That's chutzpah for you.
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Jeremy Allison - Sam writes:
The FSF and the Software Freedom Conservancy have announced "The Principles of Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement".
"This document, co-authored with the Free Software Foundation (FSF), outlines basic guidelines for any organization that seeks to uphold copyleft licenses on behalf of the public good."
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Jeremy Allison - Sam writes:
Mark Muehlfeld of the Samba Team recently surveyed our user base and recently reported the results at the SambaXP conference in Germany.
They make fascinating reading, and include all the comments on Samba made by our users. Short answer — we must improve our documentation. Here are the full results:
https://www.samba.org/~mmuehlf...
Cheers,
Jeremy Allison,
Samba Team.
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Jeremy Allison - Sam writes:
From the article:
Software Freedom Conservancy announces today Christoph Hellwig's lawsuit against VMware in the district court of Hamburg in Hamburg, Germany. This is the regretful but necessary next step in both Hellwig and Conservancy's ongoing effort to convince VMware to comply properly with the terms of the GPLv2, the license of Linux and many other Open Source and Free Software included in VMware's ESXi products.
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Jeremy Allison - Sam writes:
https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/a...
"The New AWS Directory Service
Today we are introducing the AWS Directory Service to address these challenges! This managed service provides two types of directories. You can connect to an existing on-premises directory or you can set up and run a new, Samba-based directory in the Cloud."
Best news for Samba all year !
