today's leftovers
GNU/Linux
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Graphics Stack
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Collabora ☛ 12 years of incubating Wayland color management
It's been a long road for Wayland's recently landed color management extension. We take a brief look back at how this latest feature was formed.
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Distributions and Operating Systems
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Canonical/Ubuntu Family
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Ubuntu ☛ Canonical at Embedded World 2025
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Ubuntu News ☛ Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 880
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 880 for the week of February 16 – 22, 2025. The full version of this issue is available here.
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Free, Libre, and Open Source Software
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Security
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Licensing / Legal
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The Register UK ☛ How's that open source licensing coming along?
The CHAOSS project is all about better understanding open source community health and, in the three examples of forks arising from license changes, Foster's research looked initially at repo activity: commits, additions, deletions, contributors, and so on. Foster noted that more metrics could be used, but "this is really just a start."
However, it also shows what can happen when a vendor changes a license, particularly if that vendor is relying on community contributions.
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