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[$] Elastic promises "open"—delivers proprietary
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Firefox 85 released
pip 21.0 has now been released
[$] The endless browser wars
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Kernel prepatch 5.11-rc5
[$] Preserving the mobility of ZONE_MOVABLE
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This is 2021: what’s coming in free/libre software (Libre Arts)
The topic of fullscreen color management implementation in Wayland is back, and it’s a kinda frustrating story. In a nutshell:
- people who are now working on this (Collabora developers) seem to have little experience with color management but they appear to be motivated to hack on the code;
- all the while people who have a crapload of experience with color management have had bad experience discussing this before, do not like the approach by the new team, and don’t seem excited to contribute to this new effort (Graeme’s spec proposal is still available).
So we might end up with an implementation that is not suitable for professional work.
Corellium: How we ported Linux to the M1
[$] Avoiding blocking file-name lookups
Security updates for Thursday
[$] LWN.net Weekly Edition for January 21, 2021
[$] Installing Debian on modern hardware
The Debian tech committee allows Kubernetes vendoring
Our consensus is that Kubernetes ought to be considered special in the same way that Firefox is considered special -- we treat the package differently from most other source packages because (i) it is very large and complex, and (ii) upstream has significantly more resources to keep all those moving parts up-to-date than Debian does.
In the end, allowing this vendoring seemed like the only feasible way to package Kubernetes for Debian.
Banon: License changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana
In another post Banon added some clarification. "SSPL, a copyleft license based on GPL, aims to provide many of the freedoms of open source, though it is not an OSI approved license and is not considered open source."
There is also this article on why the change was made. "So why the change? AWS and Amazon Elasticsearch Service. They have been doing things that we think are just NOT OK since 2015 and it has only gotten worse. If we don’t stand up to them now, as a successful company and leader in the market, who will?"
The FAQ has additional information. "While we have chosen to avoid confusion by not using the term open source to refer to these products, we will continue to use the word “Open” and “Free and Open.” These are simple ways to describe the fact that the product is free to use, the source code is available, and also applies to our open and collaborative engagement model in GitHub. We remain committed to the principles of open source - transparency, collaboration, and community."
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