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Welcome to this year's 16th issue of DPN, the newsletter for the Debian community. Topics covered in this issue include:

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GNU Affero General Public License suitable for Debian "main"

Joerg Jaspert, representing FTP master team, has released a [http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2008/11/msg00097.html position statement] about inclusion of works licensed under [http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/agpl-3.0.html GNU Affero General Public License version 3] (AGPLv3) in main. In short, the statement says that such work are suitable for Debian/main, even though the AGPL has an additional clause compared to the [http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-3.0.html GNU General Public License] (GPLv3), requiring a software to offer the source code when to a user interacting with it remotely through a computer network.

New Stable SuiteTelecentro 2.0

Now [http://sourceforge.net/projects/suitetelecentro available for download] is the new stable version of ?SuiteTelecentro.

?SuiteTelecentro is a customisation of Debian and is built at the Free Software Laboratory of the IT Board of Banco do Brasil, the largest and oldest public bank in Brazil.

As [http://times.debian.net/?category=success-stories#1242 already covered] at Debian Times, ?SuiteTelecentro is a GNU/Linux solution which allows the use of low performance CPU and memory computers as affordable thin clients at telecentres. Over 4 million users now have affordable access to an Internet enabled computer thanks to this Free Software project.

?SuiteTelecentro is based on Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 Etch and LTSP 4.2. The new 2.0 version features easy installation, uses the Gnome graphical environment and includes: the OpenOffice suite, MySQL, PHP, Apache, MediaWiki and the Ocara telecentre management software.

inter-distro collaboration for maintaining Games created

Initiated by members of the merged Debian and Ubuntu games teams and Hans de Goede from Fedora, a [http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/games mailinglist] has been created to foster inter-distro/OS collaboration for [http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/games/2008-November/000006.html maintaining games]. The goal is to share and review patches that the upstream project is slow or unwilling to accept, or to take over as the new upstream for software where the original upstream is dead.

At this time, members of Arch, Debian, Fedora, Fink, FreeBSD, Gentoo, NetBSD, Opensolaris, PCBSD, Slackbuilds, SuSE and Yellowdog are on this list as well as Gnome and KDE.

Call for Talks for the Debian Developers' room at FOSDEM

Wouter Verhelst [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/12/msg00000.html called for talks] for the Debian Developers' room at the upcoming Free and Open Source Developers European Meeting (FOSDEM) a yearly community meeting that takes place at the université libre de Bruxelles in Brussels, Belgium. Concentrating on bringing developers of Free Software together, Debian has again to chance for it's own one and a half day conference sub track.

Speakers interested in holding a Debian related talk should send Wouter their name the title of their talk, how long they would like the talk to take, a short bio and a short abstract.

Misc Developer News needed

Raphael Hertzog, the author of the Misc Developer News [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/12/msg00014.html asks] developers to (regularly) [http://wiki.debian.org/DeveloperNews share] short news about their work and plans so they can be published in the Misc Developer News. Possible news are everything that is related to Debian development and not worth a dedicated mail to debian-devel-announce. The news are published whenever five news have come together. Raphael point out that the Misc Developer News can also be used to post calls for help.

New Developers

1 applicant has been [http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2008/11/msg00071.html accepted] as Debian Maintainer since the prior issue of the Debian Project News. Please welcome Jörg Sommer in our project!

Other news

The Xth issue of the [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/... miscellaneous news for developers] has been released and covers the following topics:

Important Debian Security Advisories

Debian's Security Team recently released advisories for these packages (among others): [http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1667 python2.4], [http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1669 xulrunner], [http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1671 iceweasel], [http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1673 wireshark] and [http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1675 phpmyadmin]. Please read them carefully and take the proper measures.

Please note that these are a selection of the more important security advisories of the last two weeks. If you need to be kept up to date about security advisories released by the Debian Security Team, please subscribe to the [http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/ security mailing list] for announcements.

New and noteworthy packages

The following packages were added to the unstable Debian archive recently ([http://packages.debian.org/unstable/main/newpkg among others]):

Debian Package of the Day featured the package [http://debaday.debian.net/2008/11/30// apticron] (a cron-script to mail impending apt updates).

Work-needing packages

Currently 488 packages are orphaned and 117 packages are up for adoption. Please take a look at the [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/11/msg00595.html recent] [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2008/11/msg00455.html reports] to see if there are packages you are interested in or view the complete list of [http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/help_requested packages which need your help].

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[http://www.techforce.com.br Andre Felipe Machado], Jon Evans, ?RichardHartmann, Y and Z contributed to this issue of the Debian Project News.


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