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[Opinion] Canonical's Ubuntu IP policy is garbage
Canonical have a legal policy surrounding reuse of Intellectual Property they own in Ubuntu, and you can find it here. It's recently been modified to handle concerns raised by various people including the Free Software Foundation[1], who have some further opinions on the matter here.
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Debian preparing to transition to GCC 5 by the end of the month.
It's time to prepare for GCC 5 as the default compiler in unstable. Compared to earlier version bumps, the switch to GCC 5 is a bit more complicated because libstdc++6 sees a few ABI incompatibilities.
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Debian announces switch back to FFmpeg
After a careful review of all the pros and cons we, the Debian Multimedia Maintainers team, have finally decided to switch from Libav to FFmpeg as provider for the libav* multimedia libraries.