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 From : Sergey Lentsov                       2:4615/71.10   19 Apr 2002  21:20:14
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    See also: [31]last week's LWN.
 
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    A wealth of technical conferences awaits Linux developers and
    technical users. Among the upcoming events, we have:
      * The [32]Ottawa Linux Symposium is back for the fourth time; this
        year's event will be happening on June 26 to 29. Stephen Tweedie
        is the keynote speaker, and [33]the conference schedule shows a
        long list of interesting talks. Attendance at OLS is limited, and
        the show is about halfway sold out. Folks who are thinking about
        attending probably want to get signed up before too long.
      * [34]Registration has opened for the O'Reilly Open Source
        Convention, to be held in San Diego, California on July 22 to 26.
        Keynotes by Lawrence Lessig and Richard Stallman should be
        interesting, to say the least, and the technical program looks
        solid - especially in areas of traditional OSCON strenth, such as
        Perl.
      * One of the longest-running Linux events is Linux Kongress; the
        ninth Kongress is scheduled for September 4 to 6 in Cologne,
        Germany. The [35]call for papers has gone out, with a deadline of
        June 14 for submission of initial abstracts.
      * Looking a little further ahead, the [36]fourth Linux.conf.au will
        be held in Perth, Australia on January 22 to 25, 2003.
 
    One occasionally hears complaints that the LinuxWorld Conference &
    Expo (ah, yes, [37]August 12 to 15, San Francisco), has wiped out the
    more community and developer oriented events. Certainly some of the
    traditional gatherings (Linux Expo, ALS) are hurting or dead. But a
    look at the above list shows that the technical Linux conference is
    alive and well.
 
    This is more than a good thing. Glitzy trade shows have their value,
    but the Linux and free software communities have a strong need for
    events that bring together developers and users. No amount of email
    and IRC can take the place of in-person gatherings, discussions, and
    beer. Technical conferences make high-bandwidth communications
    possible, and, crucially, they help to knit a worldwide band of
    developers and users into a community.
 
    So the continued health of international technical events is a good
    thing; let us hope it stays that way. Many of these events are heavily
    dependent on corporate and/or governmental sponsorship for their
    continued existence - development conferences are not able to bring in
    vast amounts of money through fancy exhibit floors and "visionary"
    keynotes from corporate marketing VP's. So far, many of the companies
    that work in the free software realm have understood that development
    conferences are an important part of the ecology that they depend on.
    With luck, this trend will continue.
 
    Lindows, source, and preview releases. This story has come around more
    than once: a company builds a product using GPL-licensed software. As
    part of the development process, preliminary versions of the product
    are distributed to beta testers - without source. The company claims
    that the source release requirements do not apply to beta versions,
    and that all will be made well when the official release happens.
 
    The company in the news this time around is [38]Lindows.com, which is
    working toward the release of its "LindowsOS" distribution. For $99,
    it is possible to join the "Lindows Insiders" and get preview versions
    of LindowsOS now; the company, of course, wishes to get feedback from
    its "Insiders" on how to improve the product. All this makes sense so
    far - though many folks, doubtless, will balk at paying $99 for the
    privilege of helping a company find its bugs.
 
    But, it was noticed that the LindowsOS preview release did not come
    with source. That is where people started to get upset. If a company
    hands some software to a person who has paid $99 to get it, it seems
    clear that the company is "distributing" the software. And the GPL is
    clear that, when you distribute GPL-licensed software, you must also
    make the source available.
 
    Lindows's failure to make source available caused concern at the Free
    Software Foundation and elsewhere. Bruce Perens sent [39]an open
    letter to Lindows CEO Michael Robertson asking him to live up to the
    GPL. This request was not an attempt to create difficulties for
    Lindows, contrary to the opinion seemingly held by some. It was,
    instead, an attempt by copyright holders to uphold the terms under
    which they released their code.
 
    The simple fact is that labelling a release "beta" or "preview" does
    not somehow magically suspend the terms of the GPL. If you use code
    which is licensed under the GPL, you agree to those terms and are
    expected to live up to them. The GPL has no provision allowing the
    withholding of source for certain kinds of releases; if you are
    distributing the software, you are distributing it.
 
    We exchanged some email with Mr. Robertson, and it would appear that
    this particular situation has been resolved:
 
      I did have a chance to have a friendly chat with Bradley Kuhn and
      Eben Moglen of FSF. I told them that if they had concerns, we would
      do our best to address them. We changed our NDA after their input
      and put up the source code - even for this early, unstable version.
 
    This appears to be one of many situations where calm discussions are
    far superior to any amount of flaming. Lindows, after all, is not out
    to rip off the free software community. The company is, instead,
    trying to build a product that, with luck, will greatly increase the
    adoption of Linux in the marketplace. It is in Lindows's interest to
    maintain good relations with the developer community, and the company
    knows it. Lindows has met its obligations for now; we're looking
    forward to see how well they do.
 
    The EFF Pioneer Award winners. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has
    [40]announced the winners of this year's Pioneer Awards. They are:
      * Dan Gillmor, for his technology reporting,
      * Beth Givens, for her privacy work, and
      * the DeCSS authors, as personified by Jon Johansen, for bringing
        DVD playback to Linux systems.
 
    Congratulations to all the winners!
 
    Inside this LWN.net weekly edition:
      * [41]Security: Are 1024 bit RSA keys secure?; mod_python and
        fragroute releases
      * [42]Kernel: IDE cleanups questioned; VM patches in 2.5.
      * [43]Distributions: Sorcerer != Sorcerer GNU/Linux (or does it?);
        Bdale Garbee is the new Debian Leader.
      * [44]Development: Quixote 0.4.6, Google API, mod_python 2.7.7, two
        new Zopes, GTK#, FLTK 1.1.0b13, Gnumeric 1.0.6, CMU Common Lisp
        18d, Parrot 0.0.5, PHP 4.2.0 rc4, Python 2.1.3 and 2.2.1.
      * [45]Commerce: HP to Provide U.S. Department of Energy Laboratory
        One of World's Fastest Supercomputers; Mammoth PostgreSQL
        released.
      * [46]Letters: iSCSI, patents, free lunches.
 
    ...plus the usual array of reports, updates, and announcements.
 
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