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The &#39;Grand Prix World Championship&#39; will issue a statement later this week, we can reveal. GPWC is a group of disgruntled Formula One carmakers, who may be ready to reaffirm a commitment to break away from
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Wez Furlong posted a request for comments to the php.internals and php.pdo mailing lists yesterday about a new ly proposed update to the current PDO functionality - PDO 2. He just wants to clear up a few things...   It became apparent over the past year or so that PDO has been a good and valuable addition to PHP. [...] We believe that having direct involvement from the data access providers would be most effective, which is why we set out to try and get them on board.   There were three steps they would need to make to push things to version two (documentation, define scope/direction and organize data provider integration methods) and the proposal that has caused a huge stir in the community - the idea of requiring a CLA contributors would need to sign.  Comments to this point from the community include:  Richard Thomas Antony Dovgal some of Wez's own comments Mike Willbanks Christopher Jones Lukas Smith Paul Jones Pierre-Alain Joye
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The wxWidgets team is pleased to announce a new release of the mature cross-platform C++ application framework.   This is the first version in the new 2.7 series. Please notice that this series is called "development" and not "stable" solely because compatibility is not assured among between different 2.7 series versions but there are no known issues with the stability of the programs using this version.  There have been many changes since the 2.6 series, please see the change log file included in the distribution for more details. The most significant additions to the GUI part of the libraries were:      - AUI (advanced user interface) library providing dockable windows and much more     - richtext library implementing wxRichTextCtrl     - New wxComboCtrl and wxOwnerDrawnComboBox controls     - New wxTreebook book-like control     - New wxColour/Dir/File/Font/PickerCtrls     - wxHyperlinkCtrl control  https://sourceforge.net/projects/wxwindows
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By Mark Fagan, Journal-World, Lawrence, Kan.  Dec.
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To: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORS  Contact: Tom Lalley of the World Wildlife Fund, +1-202-778-9544, tom.lalley@wwfus.org   BALI, Indonesia, Feb.
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SYDNEY (Dow Jones)--Australian property investor Stockland Group (SGP.AU) said Monday it sought a trading halt on its securities pending the release of a statement &quot;about a proposal involving General Property Trust&quot; (GTP).
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By Bob Downing, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio  Sep. 25--BARBERTON -- Work will probably get under way next week to keep pollutants under PPG Industries from getting into Lower Hudson Run.   The project, being done voluntarily under the supervision of the U.S.
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(InfoWorld) - A controversial update to the GNU GPL (General Public License) is set to be released Friday by the Free Software Foundation, a representative of the organization said on Tuesday. GPL version 3 is arriving 16 years after version 2 of the license for open-source software. Questions remain, however, about who exactly will adopt it. Among improvements is a copyright technology not found anywhere in the world with the goal of providing uniformity in different jurisdictions, said Brett Smith, licensing compliance engineer for the foundation. "There's a lot of copyright laws that talk about distribution, but they don't mean the same thing," in different places, he said. "Now, GPL talks about propagation and conveying," Smith said. With this new provision, the terms are the same everywhere worldwide, he said. Version 3 also works to ensure that users can modify software installed on personal computers or in household devices. If software is conveyed inside a device, users must be given enough information so they can modify the software in the device, Smith said. An explicit patent provision in GPL 3 means people who contribute to free software cannot sue users for patent infringement, Smith said. This was not clear in the GPL previously. "This will make sure it's very clear and works across the board," he said. Microsoft and Novell recently forged an agreement not to sue each other's customers over patent issues. The foundation in version 3 provides what has been described as "patent-insurance" in response to the Microsoft-Novell arrangement. GPL 3 also spells out requirements for license compatibility. In May, the Foundation expressed intentions to iron out incompatibilities with other open-source licenses such as the Apache license. With this provision, users can copy Apache-licensed code into GPL projects, said analyst Stephen O'Grady of RedMonk. "For a variety of folks, that's a big deal," O'Grady said. Whether to actually migrate to GPL 3 is a developer decision, Smith said. At Digium, which produces the Asterisk open-source telephony platform, no decision has been made yet, said Mark Spencer, chairman and CTO of Digium. "There are some complications around the patent terms that place some additional requirements upon the developers and distributors that we need to fully understand in more detail," Spencer said. Patent provisions add uncertainty about being able to distribute software covered by someone else's patent, he said. But GPL 3 has its merits, he noted. "GPL version 3 does clean up a lot of things about the GPL that were sort of implicit in previous and become much more explicit here," such as how the GPL interacts with other licenses, Spencer said. Sun has expressed the possibility of offering its Solaris OS under the GPL 3. The Linux kernel has been offered under the GPL previously. Novell, Microsoft, and the Linux Foundation deferred comment on Tuesday until the actual release of the license. The FSF has published an essay by FSF President Richard Stallman in which he argues for the benefits of GPL version 3. âThe reason to migrate is because of the existing problems which GPLv3 will fix, such as 'tivoization,' DRM, and threats from software patents. Further advantages of GPLv3 include better internationalization, gentler termination, support for BitTorrent, and compatibility with the Apache license," Stallman said in a statement released by the foundation in May. Tivoization, which refers to Tivo's software, is when computer appliances feature GPL-covered code that cannot be changed because the appliance will shut down. Actual impacts of GPL version 3 could take a year or more to gauge, said Doug Levin, CEO of Black Duck Software, which offers a software compliance management platform. "Right now, it appears there will only be a small number of projects that will adopt the license," but that could change, Levin said.
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WASHINGTON, June 19  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW) expressed disappointment with today's House Agriculture Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management markup of H.R. 2419, the 2007 Farm Bill.
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To: FEATURES EDITORS  Contact: Erika Viltz of the World Wildlife Fund, +1-202-778- 9542, erika.viltz@wwfus.org   WASHINGTON, Feb.
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Blog: Is version 3 of the GNU General Public License asking for too much?
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In a quick post to his blog, Lukas Smith notes his support of the recent announcement of the PEAR elections.   I am confident that both of the proposals will help in improving collaboration in PEAR, mainly because they basically provide the same organization we used to have for all of PEAR (which worked great in the beginning), now for categories of related packages.   He reasons that, since PEAR is such a huge project, it needs this kind of approach - a method to the madness - to help keep the project on the right path.
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I think I've mentioned this before but on Saturday Feb 12th I'll be talking  about the Jakarta FeedParser at CodeCon  in San Francisco.  I published an outline  of the talk on the FeedParser wiki.  I'm hoping to have a 0.5 release done before then and havepotentially another suprise in the works.
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In a follow-up to a previous blog post, Alexey Zakhlestin shares a few more thoughts on the project and the proper object hierarchy's going for.   actually, I changed it completely 3 times already in my thoughts. I finally "see the light"(tm) and will implement it on a weekend. I think about converting SCGI-part to a simple "driver" and move all http-related stuff to a separate driver-agnostic set of classes. This way, I would be able to implement FastCGI as anther driver without altering applications. If you have any better ideas - let me know.   He also includes a link to another sample application that uses the functionality to create a pie chart (including some benchmarks) with the help of the eZ components framework.
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SEPTEMBER 09, 2004  - The Oracle Application User Group (OAUG) plans to hold its Connection Point 2004 annual user conference next week in Orlando, with an emphasis on educating members about the 10g database and 11i.
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Working on code today, may be limited updates.
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Version 5.5 of Q, the equational programming language, has been released. This release sports some bug fixes in the GGI module and examples. The Windows package now comes with the latest GGI from CVS, including Peter Ekberg's much improved DirectX driver.   Q-Synth 1.3 has been released as well. Q-Synth is a library of Q scripts for interfacing to realtime software synthesizers (especially James McCartney's SuperCollider, also available from SourceForge) using CNMAT's OSC protocol. This release fixes some Windows compatibility issues, and a Windows package is now provided.  More information about the Q project can be found on the Q website at http://q-lang.sourceforge.net  You can download the latest versions here: https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=96881&package_id=103965 https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=96881&package_id=115655  Enjoy!