Below are four recordings of talks. I’ve been hoping to do a write up about these, but haven’t found the time, so I’ll just post the links anyway – before they get old. The first two are quite interesting: But I Don’t Code!, by Alan Cox (topics covered) Workshop about free Java with folk from Read more »
After a year and a half, GPLv3 is finally due this Friday, June 29th. Starting with the January 2006, our focus in FSFE has on raising awareness and informing the free software community. Making transcripts of the January 16th launch and RMS’s first GPLv3 presentations and getting them on Slashdot was a good start. We Read more »
The "Linux libc" fork of the GNU C Library is now a mostly forgotten event. The fork lived from 1994 to 1997/8 – just before my time – but I’ve found interesting accounts of it by others. The main sources of information are: Elliot Lee’s essay: A Technical Comparison of glibc 2.x With Legacy System Read more »
Here is a list of links about free software being used in public administration. If anyone has more links, or better links, please send them to me at ciaran atsign fsfe.org. I won’t be able to do a good job of maintaining this list, but I hope it will give someone else a good starting Read more »
The IcedTea project has been launched by GNU Classpath. It’s goal is to make Sun’s recently freed Java implementation, called OpenJDK, work in free software environments. This involves replacing some binary blobs with code from GNU Classpath, and making or adapting a free software build system for OpenJDK. As the announcement says, it’s just in Read more »
The GNU project has released Emacs 22. For the curious, now is a good time to try the World’s greatest software package. There is even an Emacs tour for people to take a look first. Emacs development began in 1976 and has been active development ever since. It was built for extensibility, and for thirty Read more »
The GPLv3 process has entered it’s final stage with FSF releasing GPLv3 discussion draft 4. Some particularly good news is that this draft is finally compatible with the Apache licence. Accompanying this "last call draft" is: An essay by RMS: Why Upgrade to GPL Version 3 The rationale document of the changes The press release Read more »