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SoftwareFreedom 1d ago

Server Automation Scripting (with Perl)
April 5, 2026 at 0600 (UTC+0000)
https://www.meetup.com/softwarehubasean/events/314016309/

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SoftwareFreedom 1d ago

NGINX server workshop
April 4, 2026 at 0600 (UTC+0000)
https://www.meetup.com/softwarehubasean/events/314016274/

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SoftwareFreedom 1d ago

MkDocs for engineers
April 3, 2026 at 0600 (UTC+0000)
https://www.meetup.com/softwarehubasean/events/314016228/

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SoftwareFreedom 1d ago

POSIX extended attributes
April 3, 2026 at 0600 (UTC+0000)
https://www.meetup.com/softwarehubasean/events/314001543/

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Bradley M. Kühn 3d ago

Folks asked me about #chardet #LGPL situation. @corbet (on @lwn) published https://lwn.net/Articles/1061534/ it; everyone should read that.

Afterwards, take a 👀 at my comment on chardet's issue tracker:
https://github.com/chardet/chardet/issues/355#issuecomment-4145369025

TL;DR: I'm leading an effort at @conservancy to analyze this situation. The results will be published. It will take a long time — for good reason. Meanwhile, anyone using chardet commercially should call their lawyer.

#LGPLv2.1 #copyleft #SFC #SoftwareFreedom #LLM #AI #copyright

The relicensing of chardet

Chardet is a Python module that attempts to determine which character set was used to encode a [...]

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Free Software Foundation 3d ago

A #ThankGNU! to Sean Mccauliff and Valerio Poggi for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/4ao

Free Software Foundation 4d ago

A #ThankGNU! to Podbielniak Giving Fund and Ramana Kumar for helping the FSF to promote #FreeSoftware. To see a longer list of those who have helped us financially in our advocacy for #SoftwareFreedom and awareness, visit: https://u.fsf.org/4ao

knoppix 5d ago

Garuda Linux has officially declined to implement age verification, citing local jurisdictional differences and emphasizing user control. 🛡️
In contrast, Arch Linux remains silent on the matter, with forum discussions being deleted to avoid legal risks. 🔒

🔗 https://itsfoss.com/news/garuda-linux-age-verification/

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