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Planet Fedora

In this section, we cover the highlights of Planet Fedora - an aggregation of blogs from Fedora contributors worldwide.

http://planet.fedoraproject.org

Contributing Writer: Max Spevack

Tech Tidbits

http://wtogami.livejournal.com/28380.html

http://zeusville.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/spacewalk-02/

http://kushaldas.in/2008/09/18/translation-filter-03-released/

http://iquaid.org/2008/09/17/your-assignment-for-the-upcoming-f10-beta-relnotes/

http://marilyn.frields.org:8080/~paul/wordpress/?p=1174

http://direct2dell.com/one2one/archive/2008/09/19/use-the-source-luke.aspx

http://gregdek.livejournal.com/36093.html

http://gregdek.livejournal.com/35595.html

Legal

Tom Callaway wrote a lengthy post about the Mozilla EULA controversy, which reared its head again this week in the context of Ubuntu and Mozilla. However, Fedora dealt with this problem several months ago, at the end of the Fedora 9 release cycle.

Spot's entire post is worth reading, as is the commentary that follows it. Here is one excerpt:

"[The] goal was always to ensure that we could walk away with license terms from Mozilla that:

1. Permitted Fedora to continue using the Firefox trademarks 2. Clearly upheld the MPL as the valid software license terms for the Firefox binaries and source (not just for Fedora, but for everyone) 3. Meet the criteria for Free Software 4. Are presented to the user in a non-obtrusive, non-clickthrough agreement way"

http://spot.livejournal.com/299409.html

Anthony Green wrote a post that referenced SGI altering its Free B license, which has long been a thorn in the side of various distros.

http://spindazzle.org/greenblog/index.php?/archives/121-Thank-you,-SGI..html

http://www.sgi.com/company_info/newsroom/press_releases/2008/september/opengl.html