KeePassXC 2.7.8 wurde als neues Wartungsupdate der KeePassXC 2.7-Serie der beliebten, kostenlosen und plattformübergreifenden Passwort-Manager-Anwendung auf Open-Source Basis veröffentlicht. Für viele ist KeePassXC als der beste Passwort-Manager aufgrund der Vielzahl an Funktionen, die er in einem vergleichsweise kompakten Paket bietet. Insbesondere unter datenschutzorientierten Nutzern, die keine cloud-basierte Lösung wie Bitwarden bevorzugen, erfreut sich KeePassXC großer...

Der Beitrag KeePassXC 2.7.8 veröffentlicht erschien zuerst auf MichlFranken.

At its summit, Red Hat also shows that there is no way around AI. But you won't find a chatbot or another OpenAI partnership.

Folge 085 des CIW Podcasts. Der Wechsel zu Freier Software in Schleswig-Holstein

Auf seinem Summit zeigt auch Red Hat, dass an KI kein Weg vorbeiführt. Doch noch einen Chatbot oder eine weitere OpenAI-Partnerschaft sucht man vergeblich.

Beim Red Hat Summit in Denver hat Red Hat Erweiterungen für OpenShift AI angekündigt, einer offenen hybriden Plattform für Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) und Maschinelles Lernen (ML), die auf Red…

Die Python Software Foundation hat wichtige Zahlen, Details und Informationen zum vergangenen Jahr 2023 in ihrem neuesten Annual Impact Report zusammengefasst.

1995 gingen beim telefonischen Auskunftsdienst der Telekom noch 550 Millionen Anfragen ein. Ab dem 1.

Die Semi-Rolling-Fassung der auf Debian basierenden Distribution Sparky hat in der Version 2024.05 von den Entwicklern aktualisierte Startmedien spendiert bekommen.

Der Editor ist in der Version 3.0 gut gelungen und hat das Zeug zur Standard-Anwendung für die Bearbeitung von Markdown-Texten.

LLW 2024 +++ YH4F interviews +++ Ada in France

May comes with legal news such as the Legal & Licensing Workshop and the Bitcoin lawsuit regarding the liability of Free Software developers. We also talked to two 2023 YH4F participants and our Danish local group sent an Open Letter to their parliament. Did you see that Ada & Zangemann won a prize and that the French ebook version is now available?

Table of contents

• Quote of the Month
• LLW 2024: A forum for difficult legal topics of Free Software in Gothenburg
• Meet Antoni and Tobias, YH4F participants
• Free Software developers' liability and the Bitcoin lawsuit
• Ada & Zangemann: news from France
• Danish local group initiative
• Germany: Public TV broadcasters announce ‘Streaming OS’ as Free Software
• Get involved: organize an Ada & Zangemann reading!
• Contribute to our Newsletter

Quote of the Month

"As in our democracies, the distribution of power in the field of technology is essential. And we need to show that an inclusive path is possible".

-Matthias Kirschner, thanking the Forum InCyber for the prize given to Ada & Zangemann.

LLW 2024: A forum for difficult legal topics of Free Software in Gothenburg

For the second year in a row, the Swedish city of Gothenburg hosted an edition of the Free Software Legal & Licensing Workshop (LLW), the annual conference for the Legal Network members. The 2024 edition brought new faces and great discussions and presentations on current legal and licensing issues related to technological developments such as AI.

Meet Antoni and Tobias, YH4F participants

Find out more about the Youth Hacking 4 Freedom participants of the 2023 edition. We are continuing this series talking with Antoni and Tobias: Antoni developed a dictionary to preserve endangered languages, and Tobias conceived a rich featured calendar.

Free Software developers' liability and the Bitcoin lawsuit

Free Software is everywhere, with studies estimating that it is present in about 96% of the applications that we use. But what are the responsibilities and liabilities of the Free Software developers? A potential threat to Free Software developers looms in the form of an ongoing lawsuit in the UK involving Bitcoin and its core developers.

Find more about it

Ada & Zangemann: news from France

• ‘Ada & Zangemann: A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream’ has been awarded the 2024 Youth Book Prize of the InCyber Forum Europe. This is the first time this prize has been awarded to a children's book.
• 300 copies of Ada & Zangemann were distributed to teachers at the Journée du Libre Éducatif 2024. The book was presented at this fair, that this year was held in Paris, by two of the students who translated it.
• More great news! The French publisher CFE editions published an online version of "Ada & Zangemann - A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream": https://ada-lelivre.fr/.

Danish local group initiative

The FSFE Danish local group has sent an Open Letter to the IT spokespersons of all the political parties in the Danish Parliament, entitled “Digitalisation problems can be solved with Free/Open Source Software”. In this letter, the local group pointed out several examples of cases in which using proprietary software is harming citizens’ rights and privacy, for example the municipalities' strong wish to use proprietary software (Google Classroom) in schools, which is actively sharing students' private data to Google in violation of the GDPR.

The local group is currently waiting for an official answer from the parliamentarians though they have already received positive responses.

You can check the letter (in Danish) here.

Germany: Public TV broadcasters announce ‘Streaming OS’ as Free Software

The German public broadcasters ARD and ZDF have announced that they will integrate their media centres in future and publish their code as Free Software. Under the name ‘Streaming OS’, the software will be available to the general public under a Free Software licence.

In their announcement, the directors of the broadcasters emphasise that by publishing the code, they want to give something back to society that it has previously paid for. ARD and ZDF are thus addressing the core idea of our FSFE initiative ‘Public Money? Public Code!’. We are looking forward to seeing Streaming OS and its code in 2025!

The Berlin group of the FSFE participated in the 2024 edition of the Umweltsfestival (Environmental Festival) together with Bits&Bäume Berlin and KDE Eco. Our volunteers explained to festival attendees the sustainable use of computers with Free Software as well as other FSFE initiatives such as Public Money, Public Code and even answered questions about the Fediverse.

Get involved: organize an Ada & Zangemann reading!

Do you want to help spread the word about Free Software to the younger generations? You can do it with an Ada & Zangemann reading! If you like children, this is an easy and a great way to talk to them about Free Software. And everyone who has done it has found it a really rewarding and enriching experience!

If you are interested in facilitating a reading of the book in schools or libraries, write to contact@fsfe.org.

Contribute to our Newsletter

We would love to hear from you. If you have any thoughts, pictures, or news to share, please send them to us at newsletter@fsfe.org. You can also support us, contribute to our work, and join our community. We would like to thank our community and all the volunteers, supporters, and donors who make our work possible, with a special mention to our translators who make it possible for you to read this newsletter in your mother tongue.

Your editor, Ana

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Ubuntu 24.04 liefert mit GNOME 46, frischem Installer und viel Neuem einen soliden Linux-Desktop. Für Unmut sorgt der fortgesetzte Snap-Zwang. Ein Überblick.

DOSBox-X ist ein Cross-Plattform Emulationspaket zur Emulation von Betriebssystemen und Computer Hardware, die vor dem Jahr 2000 hergestellt wurde.

Online-Banking ist in Deutschland so verbreitet wie noch nie, teilt der Digitalverband Bitkom mit. Erstmals würden nun auch eine Mehrheit der Senioren Online-Dienste ihrer Bank nutzen.

Google hat mit dem Android-Patch für den Mai Sicherheitslücken beseitigt. Diese ließen sich von Angreifern ausnutzen, um die Rechte im Android-System auszuweiten.

Die freie Bildbearbeitungsoftware GIMP bringt in der neuesten Version 2.10.38 einige Neuerungen, unter anderem eine verbesserte Unterstützung für (Zeichen-)Tablets unter Windows. Darüber hinaus soll die als „Stable“ gekennzeichnete Aktualisierung die häufig gewünschte Rückportierungen von GTK3 zu GTK2 mitbringen.

Erste Eindrücke von Ubuntu 24.04 auf dem Raspberry Pi 5.

Red Hat hat die allgemeine Verfügbarkeit von Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 bekannt gegeben, das als viertes Update der neuesten Betriebssystemserie von Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 neue und verbesserte Funktionen einführt. Zu den Highlights von Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 gehören die Möglichkeit, benutzerdefinierte Dateien für das SCAP-Sicherheitsprofil einem Blueprint hinzuzufügen, die Unterstützung für...

Der Beitrag Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 veröffentlicht erschien zuerst auf MichlFranken.

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Ubuntu 24.04 glänzt mit aktueller Software und bringt sonst nur wenige große Neuerungen. Für Admins bestehender Server ist das Update eine sichere Bank.

Die Fritz!box von AVM ist weit verbreitet und bietet in der Grundausstattung VPN und VOIP-Telefonie. Mit ein paar Einstellungen kann ich mein Smartphone damit einbinden.

ARD und ZDF wollen gemeinsam ein Betriebssystem speziell für Mediatheken entwickeln. Die Ergebnisse sollen als Open Source erscheinen. (Streaming, IPTV)

Warum nutzen so viele von uns Social Media und was macht die Relevanz von Sozialen Netzwerken aus? Ein kritischer Blick auf Soziale Medien, aber durch die Fediverse-Brille.

LLW 2024: A forum for difficult legal topics of Free Software in Gothenburg

For the second year in a row, the Swedish city of Gothenburg hosted an edition of the Free Software Legal & Licensing Workshop (LLW), the annual conference for Legal Network members. The 2024 edition brought new faces and great discussions and presentations on current legal and licensing issues related to technological developments such as AI.

Under a sunny and blue sky, the beautiful Swedish city of Gothenburg once again hosted FSFE’s Free Software Legal & Licensing Workshop (LLW), a two and a half day conference for members of the Legal Network community to meet face-to-face and share legal expertise in a safe space. It was great to have attendees engaging with the speakers in interesting legal discussions, as well as to see them use the venue to engage in impromptu discussions on legal theory, policy, and case law related to Free Software topics. This shows how valuable this conference has become for Free Software legal professionals, who arrived from Europe, the Americas, and Asia, and the importance of a healthy community to encourage discussion of the most current Free Software legal topics and to network in order to build a culture of knowledge exchange in the legal sector.

Discussion, even controversial, can help legal experts to make better decisions while accomplishing the mission of empowering users to control technology. Good examples are Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, that continued to be hot topics during this year’s edition, with a number of discussions on the conference agenda touching on the legal ramifications of AI developments on software and licensing.

Nevertheless, there were many other developments from the past year for attendees to discuss as well, from new legislative initiatives and case law in various jurisdictions within and outside the European Union, to presentations to introduce various community-initiated compliance tools, to conversations about more philosophical ideas regarding Free Software and community.

"I have been working for 2 years in this field now. In the past 2 days I learnt more on those topics than in the 2 years before", said one participant in LLW 2024

This conference also gives newcomers who may be a little shy about participating in discussions on the mailing list a chance to introduce themselves and meet various more established members of the community in person. The FSFE believes in the importance of supporting young professionals, which is why this conference also offers a mentoring programme, so that experienced members can help integrate newcomers into the Free Software legal community, as well as to help them build professional connections and expertise.

We appreciate all Legal Network members who took the time to participate in person and hope to see them again next year. It is extremely heartening for us to see the Free Software legal community grow in strength and knowledge with regular meetings like the LLW.

We want to thank our sponsors: Intel, Red Hat, Microsoft, Amazon, Bosch, Ericsson, Siemens, Volvo, Bird & Bird, Google, the law firm Heuking, and the Open Invention Network.

The Legal Network

The Legal Network is a neutral, non-partisan group of experts in different fields involved in Free Software legal issues. Currently the Legal Network has over 400 participants from different legal systems, academic backgrounds and affiliations.

The aim of the Legal Network is to promote discussion and foster better knowledge of the legal constructs that back Free Software. The conversations on the Legal Network are intended to be dynamic, thought-provoking, and up to speed with the most recent developments.

The Legal Network is a safe space to promote legal knowledge about Free Software so that companies can make strategic decisions about Free Software development based on an understanding of how Free Software licensing and other related legal issues work. This allows Free Software developers and legal professionals who work within larger companies to continue to contribute to software freedom.

Admission to the Legal Network is restricted, and the discussions held there are confidential. Nevertheless, this does not mean that the content of the mailing list is contained away from the larger Free Software community. The Chatham House Rule applies to all discussions on the Legal Network mailing list and at Legal Network events, which enables members to use the information received, but not to reveal the identity nor the affiliation of the speaker or any of the participants involved in the discussion.

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