Mise à jour de la base de données, veuillez patienter...

There were 13 new GNU releases this month!

Releases as of October 29, 2012:

• binutils-2.23
• bison-2.6.4
• coreutils-8.20
• freeipmi-1.2.2
• gnuhealth-1.6.4
• gnutls-3.1.3
• libcdio-0.90
• libextractor-1.0.1
• parallel-20121022
• patch-2.7.1
• units-2.01
• xnee-3.14
• zile-2.4.9

To get announcements of most new GNU releases, subscribe to the info-gnu mailing list: http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu. Nearly all GNU software is available from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/, or preferably one of its mirrors (http://www.gnu.org/prep/ftp.html). You can use the url http://ftpmirror.gnu.org/ to be automatically redirected to a (hopefully) nearby and up-to-date mirror.

A number of GNU packages, as well as the GNU operating system as a whole, are looking for maintainers and other assistance. Please see http://www.gnu.org/server/takeaction.html#unmaint if you'd like to help. The general page on how to help GNU is at http://www.gnu.org/help/help.html. To submit new packages to the GNU operating system, see http://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html.

As always, please feel free to write to me, karl@gnu.org, with any GNUish questions or suggestions for future installments.

Join the FSF and friends on Friday November 2nd, from 2pm to 5pm EDT (18:00 to 21:00 UTC) to help improve the Free Software Directory by adding new entries and updating existing ones. We will be on IRC in the #fsf channel on freenode.

Tens of thousands of people visit directory.fsf.org each month to discover free software. Each entry in the Directory contains a wealth of useful information, from basic category and descriptions, to providing detailed info about version control, IRC channels, documentation, and licensing info that has been carefully checked by FSF staff and trained volunteers.

While the Free Software Directory has been and continues to be a great resource to the world over the past decade, it has the potential of being a resource of even greater value. But it needs your help!

If you are eager to help and you can't wait or are simply unable to make it onto IRC on Friday, our participation guide will provide you with all the information you need to get started on helping the Directory today!

When it comes to making sales, once just isn't enough for big publishers and record labels. Publishers, Hollywood, and the music industry--many of the same folks who brought you SOPA and PIPA--are trying new tactics to control what we can do with copyrighted material after we buy it.
Our friends at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) are fighting them hard in court. This week the Supreme Court is hearing Kirtsaeng v. Wiley, and the outcome could have enormous repercussions for the longstanding "first sale" doctrine. First sale is what gives you the right to resell things you have purchased, but now companies are trying to find a way to control the secondary market (like ebay, craigslist, or your tag sale). According to the EFF, "The Kirtsaeng case specifically deals with textbooks, but the Court's decision is likely to affect a range of markets and consumers. If the court goes the wrong way on this, it could threaten your ability to buy and sell all kinds of products that might contain copyrighted material."

It should come as no surprise that while this case relates to textbooks, the RIAA and the MPAA are all over it. They have filed their own legal briefs and have lobbied the Obama administration to do the same. But they won't stop there. These powerful lobbying interests are also working to find loopholes that will take away our ability to own anything copyrighted in the future. We increasingly live in a world where digital books, music and movies cannot be purchased, only "licensed." These "end user license agreements" -- often combined with proprietary software -- prevent us from selling or modifying what we've paid for, and even prevent us from lending ebooks to friends or using text-to-speech to read ebooks aloud.

Big Hollywood and big music won't stop there. New legislation will undoubtedly be their next attempt to satiate their greed. The Free Software Foundation is working with our friends at the EFF and Demand Progress to defend our first sale rights and fight coercive end user license agreements. Visit the EFF's site to tell Congress to defend your rights to do want you want with the digital goods you paid for.

This is the second installment of our Licensing and Compliance Lab's series on free software developers who choose GNU licenses for their works.

Jeremy Allison is a long-time free software advocate and a lead developer of Samba. He has given a talk on why Samba chose the GNU GPL version 3 on several occasions, and we wanted to highlight that talk again as part of our series.

What is Samba?

Samba is a suite of tools that enables interoperability between GNU/Linux or other Unix servers and Windows clients. It provides file and print services to SMB/CIFS clients. Samba was released in 1992 by Andrew Tridgell as a free software alternative to proprietary implementations, and 20 years later has grown to be one of the most popular clients available. Previously released under the GNU General Public License version 2, Samba has now upgraded its license to GPLv3.

Why Samba switched to GPLv3

The following talk was given in 2011, and was shared via the Free as in Freedom Oggcast. The slides are included below so that you can follow along with the talk. These materials are available under the CC-BY-SA 3.0 license.

Download the slides of the talk.

Download the Ogg Vorbis file.

If you're a developer of a GPLv3-covered project, write and tell us about your experience.

Starting tomorrow (November 1st), Spanish speakers will be able read our monthly e-mail newsletter in their native language.

October's Supporter was published today. Tomorrow, when we finish translation, you'll be able to read it in Spanish at http://www.fsf.org/free-software-supporter/2012/octubre-espanol.

If you haven't already, please let us know what language you prefer to read, so we can do our best to send you the right newsletter and other materials. If you change your preference to Spanish today, we'll email you the Spanish Supporter tomorrow.

This first translation was done by FSF sysadmin Nico Cesar, but he would love to have more help. If you are available to assist with Spanish translation -- or any language -- please email us at campaigns@fsf.org. The newsletter is published without fail at the end of each month, so that's when we'll need the help.

The articles the Supporter refers to are mostly in English, though an increasing number are being translated to other languages. Please let us know if you are available to help with full article translations as well.