Openwashing and Lock-in in 'Open' Clothing
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Software Freedom Conservancy ☛ Is Tesla open source? Roadster certainly isn't...
There appears to be some debate over whether a certain billionaire said on November 22 that "Tesla Roadster is now fully open source", or maybe that "All design & engineering of the original @Tesla Roadster is now fully open source". In any case, as the people who work every day on whether or not what companies say is FOSS really is FOSS, we reviewed the materials Tesla provided on the Tesla Roadster Service Information page. We found no source code — and last time we reviewed the Open Source Definition, providing source code was mandatory to meet it. But this situation is worse than that. Tesla did include several copies of the Linux kernel in only binary form, with no offer for source whatsoever. That's a GPL violation. We immediately emailed Tesla to ask them where the source code was but (now 3 weeks later) we have still heard nothing back.
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The need for being able to repair here is not hypothetical. The dangers of Tesla drivers' inability to fix the software in their cars is palpable. After discussing safety concerns in the software on its cars with the NHTSA, Tesla recently did a voluntary recall on all cars it has produced in the past 10 years. This recall is *due to faulty software*, which was only discovered to be faulty after many drivers died. Neither NHTSA nor the public has the right to review Tesla's actual software for safety. If Tesla at least complied with the GPL, regulatory bodies and the public could review those portions for safety. (Of course, we think Tesla should be required to make the source for even those parts of the software not governed by GPL available to the public for security audits and review.)
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Linux Foundation
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Anchore Aligns with Linux Foundation for the Dan Kohn Diversity Scholarship Fund
Anchore, Inc., the leading experts in modern software composition analysis and federal compliance, today announced it has aligned with the Linux Foundation to support the Dan Kohn Diversity Scholarship Fund.
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Linux Foundation Connectivity grows portfolio with ISP Toolbox and Magma projects
LF Connectivity (LFC), a Linux Foundation open-source project focused on advancing technologies to accelerate emerging network and connectivity applications, this week announced Magma and ISP Toolbox have become LFC sub-projects.
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