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-               <title>First paper version of the Norwegian Free Culture book heading my way</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_paper_version_of_the_Norwegian_Free_Culture_book_heading_my_way.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_paper_version_of_the_Norwegian_Free_Culture_book_heading_my_way.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sun, 9 Aug 2015 10:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Typesetting a book is harder than I hoped.  As the translation is
-mostly done, and a volunteer proof reader was going to check the text
-on paper, it was time this summer to focus on formatting my translated
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.docbook.org/&quot;&gt;docbook&lt;/a&gt; based version of the
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://free-culture.cc/&quot;&gt;Free Culture&lt;/a&gt; book by Lawrence
-Lessig.  I&#39;ve been trying to get both docboox-xsl+fop and dblatex to
-give me a good looking PDF, but in the end I went with dblatex, because
-its Debian maintainer and upstream developer were responsive and very
-helpful in solving my formatting challenges.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Last night, I finally managed to create a PDF that no longer made
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/&quot;&gt;Lulu.com&lt;/a&gt; complain after uploading,
-and I ordered a text version of the book on paper.  It is lacking a
-proper book cover and is not tagged with the correct ISBN number, but
-should give me an idea what the finished book will look like.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Instead of using Lulu, I did consider printing the book using
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.createspace.com/&quot;&gt;CreateSpace&lt;/a&gt;, but ended up
-using Lulu because it had smaller book size options (CreateSpace seem
-to lack pocket book with extended distribution).  I looked for a
-similar service in Norway, but have not seen anything so far.  Please
-let me know if I am missing out on something here.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;But I still struggle to decide the book size.  Should I go for
-pocket book (4.25x6.875 inches / 10.8x17.5 cm) with 556 pages, Digest
-(5.5x8.5 inches / 14x21.6 cm) with 323 pages or US Trade (6x8 inches /
-15.3x22.9 cm) with 280 pages?  Fewer pager give a cheaper book, and a
-smaller book is easier to carry around.  The test book I ordered was
-pocket book sized, to give me an idea how well that fit in my hand,
-but I suspect I will end up using a digest sized book in the end to
-bring the prize down further.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;My biggest challenge at the moment is making nice cover art.  My
-inkscape skills are not yet up to the task of replicating the original
-cover in SVG format.  I also need to figure out what to write about
-the book on the back (will most likely use the same text as the
-description on web based book stores).  I would love help with this,
-if you are willing to license the art source and final version using
-the same CC license as the book.  My artistic skills are not really up
-to the task.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I plan to publish the book in both English and Norwegian and on
-paper, in PDF form as well as EPUB and MOBI format.  The current
-status can as usual be found on
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;github&lt;/a&gt;
-in the archive/ directory.  So far I have spent all time on making the
-PDF version look good.  Someone should probably do the same with the
-dbtoepub generated e-book.  Help is definitely needed here, as I
-expect to run out of steem before I find time to improve the epub
-formatting.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Please let me know via github if you find typos in the book or
-discover translations that should be improved.  The final proof
-reading is being done right now, and I expect to publish the finished
-result in a few months.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Making battery measurements a little easier in Debian</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Making_battery_measurements_a_little_easier_in_Debian.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Making_battery_measurements_a_little_easier_in_Debian.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Tue, 15 Mar 2016 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Back in September, I blogged about
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_life_and_death_of_a_laptop_battery.html&quot;&gt;the
+system I wrote to collect statistics about my laptop battery&lt;/a&gt;, and
+how it showed the decay and death of this battery (now replaced).  I
+created a simple deb package to handle the collection and graphing,
+but did not want to upload it to Debian as there were already
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/battery-stats&quot;&gt;a battery-stats
+package in Debian&lt;/a&gt; that should do the same thing, and I did not see
+a point of uploading a competing package when battery-stats could be
+fixed instead.  I reported a few bugs about its non-function, and
+hoped someone would step in and fix it.  But no-one did.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I got tired of waiting a few days ago, and took matters in my own
+hands.  The end result is that I am now the new upstream developer of
+battery stats (&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/battery-stats&quot;&gt;available from github&lt;/a&gt;) and part of the team maintaining
+battery-stats in Debian, and the package in Debian unstable is finally
+able to collect battery status using the &lt;tt&gt;/sys/class/power_supply/&lt;/tt&gt;
+information provided by the Linux kernel.  If you install the
+battery-stats package from unstable now, you will be able to get a
+graph of the current battery fill level, to get some idea about the
+status of the battery.  The source package build and work just fine in
+Debian testing and stable (and probably oldstable too, but I have not
+tested).  The default graph you get for that system look like this:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2016-03-15-battery-stats-graph-example.png&quot; width=&quot;70%&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;My plans for the future is to merge my old scripts into the
+battery-stats package, as my old scripts collected a lot more details
+about the battery.  The scripts are merged into the upstream
+battery-stats git repository already, but I am not convinced they work
+yet, as I changed a lot of paths along the way.  Will have to test a
+bit more before I make a new release.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I will also consider changing the file format slightly, as I
+suspect the way I combine several values into one field might make it
+impossible to know the type of the value when using it for processing
+and graphing.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;If you would like I would like to keep an close eye on your laptop
+battery, check out the battery-stats package in
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/battery-stats&quot;&gt;Debian&lt;/a&gt; and
+on
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/battery-stats&quot;&gt;github&lt;/a&gt;.
+I would love some help to improve the system further.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Typesetting DocBook footnotes as endnotes with dblatex</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Typesetting_DocBook_footnotes_as_endnotes_with_dblatex.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Typesetting_DocBook_footnotes_as_endnotes_with_dblatex.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2015 18:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;I&#39;m still working on the Norwegian version of the
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://free-culture.cc/&quot;&gt;Free Culture book by Lawrence
-Lessig&lt;/a&gt;, and is now working on the final typesetting and layout.
-One of the features I want to get the structure similar to the
-original book is to typeset the footnotes as endnotes in the notes
-chapter.  Based on the
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/685063&quot;&gt;feedback from the Debian
-maintainer and the dblatex developer&lt;/a&gt;, I came up with this recipe I
-would like to share with you.  The proposal was to create a new LaTeX
-class file and add the LaTeX code there, but this is not always
-practical, when I want to be able to replace the class using a make
-file variable.  So my proposal misuses the latex.begindocument XSL
-parameter value, to get a small fragment into the correct location in
-the generated LaTeX File.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;First, decide where in the DocBook document to place the endnotes,
-and add this text there:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;pre&gt;
-&amp;lt;?latex \theendnotes ?&amp;gt;
-&lt;/pre&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Next, create a xsl stylesheet file dblatex-endnotes.xsl to add the
-code needed to add the endnote instructions in the preamble of the
-generated LaTeX document, with content like this:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;pre&gt;
-&amp;lt;?xml version=&#39;1.0&#39;?&amp;gt;
-&amp;lt;xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform&quot; version=&#39;1.0&#39;&amp;gt;
-  &amp;lt;xsl:param name=&quot;latex.begindocument&quot;&amp;gt;
-    &amp;lt;xsl:text&amp;gt;
-\usepackage{endnotes}
-\let\footnote=\endnote
-\def\enoteheading{\mbox{}\par\vskip-\baselineskip }
-\begin{document}
-    &amp;lt;/xsl:text&amp;gt;
-  &amp;lt;/xsl:param&amp;gt;
-&amp;lt;/xsl:stylesheet&amp;gt;
-&lt;/pre&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Finally, load this xsl file when running dblatex, for example like
-this:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;pre&gt;
-dblatex --xsl-user=dblatex-endnotes.xsl freeculture.nb.xml
-&lt;/pre&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The end result can be seen on github, where
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;my
-book project&lt;/a&gt; is located.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Creating, updating and checking debian/copyright semi-automatically</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Creating__updating_and_checking_debian_copyright_semi_automatically.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Creating__updating_and_checking_debian_copyright_semi_automatically.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2016 15:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Making packages for Debian requires quite a lot of attention to
+details.  And one of the details is the content of the
+debian/copyright file, which should list all relevant licenses used by
+the code in the package in question, preferably in
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/&quot;&gt;machine
+readable DEP5 format&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;For large packages with lots of contributors it is hard to write
+and update this file manually, and if you get some detail wrong, the
+package is normally rejected by the ftpmasters.  So getting it right
+the first time around get the package into Debian faster, and save
+both you and the ftpmasters some work..  Today, while trying to figure
+out what was wrong with
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=686447&quot;&gt;the
+zfsonlinux copyright file&lt;/a&gt;, I decided to spend some time on
+figuring out the options for doing this job automatically, or at least
+semi-automatically.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Lucikly, there are at least two tools available for generating the
+file based on the code in the source package,
+&lt;tt&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/debmake&quot;&gt;debmake&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;
+and &lt;tt&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/cme&quot;&gt;cme&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;.  I&#39;m
+not sure which one of them came first, but both seem to be able to
+create a sensible draft file.  As far as I can tell, none of them can
+be trusted to get the result just right, so the content need to be
+polished a bit before the file is OK to upload.  I found the debmake
+option in
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://goofying-with-debian.blogspot.com/2014/07/debmake-checking-source-against-dep-5.html&quot;&gt;a
+blog posts from 2014&lt;/a&gt;.
+
+&lt;p&gt;To generate using debmake, use the -cc option:
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+debmake -cc &gt; debian/copyright
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Note there are some problems with python and non-ASCII names, so
+this might not be the best option.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The cme option is based on a config parsing library, and I found
+this approach in
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://ddumont.wordpress.com/2015/04/05/improving-creation-of-debian-copyright-file/&quot;&gt;a
+blog post from 2015&lt;/a&gt;.  To generate using cme, use the &#39;update
+dpkg-copyright&#39; option:
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+cme update dpkg-copyright
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;This will create or update debian/copyright.  The cme tool seem to
+handle UTF-8 names better than debmake.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;When the copyright file is created, I would also like some help to
+check if the file is correct.  For this I found two good options,
+&lt;tt&gt;debmake -k&lt;/tt&gt; and &lt;tt&gt;license-reconcile&lt;/tt&gt;.  The former seem
+to focus on license types and file matching, and is able to detect
+ineffective blocks in the copyright file.  The latter reports missing
+copyright holders and years, but was confused by inconsistent license
+names (like CDDL vs. CDDL-1.0).  I suspect it is good to use both and
+fix all issues reported by them before uploading.  But I do not know
+if the tools and the ftpmasters agree on what is important to fix in a
+copyright file, so the package might still be rejected.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The devscripts tool &lt;tt&gt;licensecheck&lt;/tt&gt; deserve mentioning.  It
+will read through the source and try to find all copyright statements.
+It is not comparing the result to the content of debian/copyright, but
+can be useful when verifying the content of the copyright file.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Are you aware of better tools in Debian to create and update
+debian/copyright file.  Please let me know, or blog about it on
+planet.debian.org.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
+activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
+&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 2016-02-20&lt;/strong&gt;: I got a tip from Mike Gabriel
+on how to use licensecheck and cdbs to create a draft copyright file
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+licensecheck --copyright -r `find * -type f` | \
+  /usr/lib/cdbs/licensecheck2dep5 &gt; debian/copyright.auto
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;He mentioned that he normally check the generated file into the
+version control system to make it easier to discover license and
+copyright changes in the upstream source.  I will try to do the same
+with my packages in the future.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 2016-02-21&lt;/strong&gt;: The cme author recommended
+against using -quiet for new users, so I removed it from the proposed
+command line.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Mimes brønn, norsk utgave av Alaveteli / WhatDoTheyKnow, endelig lansert</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Mimes_br_nn__norsk_utgave_av_Alaveteli___WhatDoTheyKnow__endelig_lansert.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Mimes_br_nn__norsk_utgave_av_Alaveteli___WhatDoTheyKnow__endelig_lansert.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Thu, 9 Jul 2015 11:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;I går fikk vi endelig lansert en norsk version av mySocietys
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/&quot;&gt;WhatDoTheyKnow&lt;/a&gt;.
-Tjenesten heter Mimes brønn, og ble
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/news/NUUG_lanserer_innsynstjenesten_Mimes_Br_nn.shtml&quot;&gt;annonsert
-av NUUG&lt;/a&gt; via blogg, epost og twitter til NUUG-assosierte personer.
-Det har tatt noen år, men de siste dagene fikk vi endelig tid til å få
-på plass de siste bitene.  Vi er to, Gorm og meg selv, som har vært
-primus motor for det hele, men vi har fått hjelp med oversettelser og
-oppsett fra mange flere.  Jeg vil si tusen takk til hver og en av dem,
-og er veldig fornøyd med at vi klarte å få tjenesten opp å kjøre før
-ferietiden slo inn for fullt.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Vi er usikker på hvor mye belastning den virtuelle maskinen der
-tjenesten kjører klarer, så vi har lansert litt i det stille og ikke
-til for mange folk for å se hvordan maskinen klarer seg over sommeren,
-før vi går mer aktivt ut og annonserer til høsten.  Ta en titt, og se
-om du kanskje har et spørsmål til det offentlige som er egnet å sende
-inn via Mimes brønn.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Hvis du lurer på hva i alle dager en slik tjenestes kan brukes til,
-anbefaler jeg deg å se
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.frikanalen.no/video/625321&quot;&gt;TED-foredraget til
-Heather Brook&lt;/a&gt; om hvordan hun brukte WhatDoTheyKnow til å lære
-hvordan offentlige midler ble misbrukt.  Det er en inspirerende
-historie.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Using appstream in Debian to locate packages with firmware and mime type support</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Using_appstream_in_Debian_to_locate_packages_with_firmware_and_mime_type_support.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Using_appstream_in_Debian_to_locate_packages_with_firmware_and_mime_type_support.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Thu, 4 Feb 2016 16:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/DEP-11&quot;&gt;appstream system&lt;/a&gt;
+is taking shape in Debian, and one provided feature is a very
+convenient way to tell you which package to install to make a given
+firmware file available when the kernel is looking for it.  This can
+be done using apt-file too, but that is for someone else to blog
+about. :)&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Here is a small recipe to find the package with a given firmware
+file, in this example I am looking for ctfw-3.2.3.0.bin, randomly
+picked from the set of firmware announced using appstream in Debian
+unstable.  In general you would be looking for the firmware requested
+by the kernel during kernel module loading.  To find the package
+providing the example file, do like this:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+% apt install appstream
+[...]
+% apt update
+[...]
+% appstreamcli what-provides firmware:runtime ctfw-3.2.3.0.bin | \
+  awk &#39;/Package:/ {print $2}&#39;
+firmware-qlogic
+%
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;See &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/AppStream/Guidelines&quot;&gt;the
+appstream wiki&lt;/a&gt; page to learn how to embed the package metadata in
+a way appstream can use.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;This same approach can be used to find any package supporting a
+given MIME type.  This is very useful when you get a file you do not
+know how to handle.  First find the mime type using &lt;tt&gt;file
+--mime-type&lt;/tt&gt;, and next look up the package providing support for
+it.  Lets say you got an SVG file.  Its MIME type is image/svg+xml,
+and you can find all packages handling this type like this:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+% apt install appstream
+[...]
+% apt update
+[...]
+% appstreamcli what-provides mimetype image/svg+xml | \
+  awk &#39;/Package:/ {print $2}&#39;
+bkchem
+phototonic
+inkscape
+shutter
+tetzle
+geeqie
+xia
+pinta
+gthumb
+karbon
+comix
+mirage
+viewnior
+postr
+ristretto
+kolourpaint4
+eog
+eom
+gimagereader
+midori
+%
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I believe the MIME types are fetched from the desktop file for
+packages providing appstream metadata.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>MPEG LA on &quot;Internet Broadcast AVC Video&quot; licensing and non-private use</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/MPEG_LA_on__Internet_Broadcast_AVC_Video__licensing_and_non_private_use.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/MPEG_LA_on__Internet_Broadcast_AVC_Video__licensing_and_non_private_use.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Tue, 7 Jul 2015 09:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;After asking the Norwegian Broadcasting Company (NRK)
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hva_gj_r_at_NRK_kan_distribuere_H_264_video_uten_patentavtale_med_MPEG_LA_.html&quot;&gt;why
-they can broadcast and stream H.264 video without an agreement with
-the MPEG LA&lt;/a&gt;, I was wiser, but still confused.  So I asked MPEG LA
-if their understanding matched that of NRK.  As far as I can tell, it
-does not.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I started by asking for more information about the various
-licensing classes and what exactly is covered by the &quot;Internet
-Broadcast AVC Video&quot; class that NRK pointed me at to explain why NRK
-did not need a license for streaming H.264 video:
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;According to
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mpegla.com/Lists/MPEG%20LA%20News%20List/Attachments/226/n-10-02-02.pdf&quot;&gt;a
-MPEG LA press release dated 2010-02-02&lt;/a&gt;, there is no charge when
-using MPEG AVC/H.264 according to the terms of &quot;Internet Broadcast AVC
-Video&quot;.  I am trying to understand exactly what the terms of &quot;Internet
-Broadcast AVC Video&quot; is, and wondered if you could help me.  What
-exactly is covered by these terms, and what is not?&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The only source of more information I have been able to find is a
-PDF named
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/avc/Documents/avcweb.pdf&quot;&gt;AVC
-Patent Portfolio License Briefing&lt;/a&gt;, which states this about the
-fees:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;ul&gt;
- &lt;li&gt;Where End User pays for AVC Video
-  &lt;ul&gt;
-   &lt;li&gt;Subscription (not limited by title) – 100,000 or fewer
-     subscribers/yr = no royalty; &amp;gt; 100,000 to 250,000 subscribers/yr =
-     $25,000; &amp;gt;250,000 to 500,000 subscribers/yr = $50,000; &amp;gt;500,000 to
-     1M subscribers/yr = $75,000; &amp;gt;1M subscribers/yr = $100,000&lt;/li&gt;
-
-   &lt;li&gt;Title-by-Title - 12 minutes or less = no royalty; &amp;gt;12 minutes in
-     length = lower of (a) 2% or (b) $0.02 per title&lt;/li&gt;
-  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-
- &lt;li&gt;Where remuneration is from other sources
-  &lt;ul&gt;
-   &lt;li&gt;Free Television - (a) one-time $2,500 per transmission encoder or
-     (b) annual fee starting at $2,500 for &amp;gt; 100,000 HH rising to
-     maximum $10,000 for &amp;gt;1,000,000 HH&lt;/li&gt;
-
-   &lt;li&gt;Internet Broadcast AVC Video (not title-by-title, not subscription)
-     – no royalty for life of the AVC Patent Portfolio License&lt;/li&gt;
-  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Am I correct in assuming that the four categories listed is the
-categories used when selecting licensing terms, and that &quot;Internet
-Broadcast AVC Video&quot; is the category for things that do not fall into
-one of the other three categories?  Can you point me to a good source
-explaining what is ment by &quot;title-by-title&quot; and &quot;Free Television&quot; in
-the license terms for AVC/H.264?&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Will a web service providing H.264 encoded video content in a
-&quot;video on demand&quot; fashing similar to Youtube and Vimeo, where no
-subscription is required and no payment is required from end users to
-get access to the videos, fall under the terms of the &quot;Internet
-Broadcast AVC Video&quot;, ie no royalty for life of the AVC Patent
-Portfolio license?  Does it matter if some users are subscribed to get
-access to personalized services?&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Note, this request and all answers will be published on the
-Internet.&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The answer came quickly from Benjamin J. Myers, Licensing Associate
-with the MPEG LA:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;Thank you for your message and for your interest in MPEG LA.  We
-appreciate hearing from you and I will be happy to assist you.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;As you are aware, MPEG LA offers our AVC Patent Portfolio License
-which provides coverage under patents that are essential for use of
-the AVC/H.264 Standard (MPEG-4 Part 10).  Specifically, coverage is
-provided for end products and video content that make use of AVC/H.264
-technology.  Accordingly, the party offering such end products and
-video to End Users concludes the AVC License and is responsible for
-paying the applicable royalties.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Regarding Internet Broadcast AVC Video, the AVC License generally
-defines such content to be video that is distributed to End Users over
-the Internet free-of-charge.  Therefore, if a party offers a service
-which allows users to upload AVC/H.264 video to its website, and such
-AVC Video is delivered to End Users for free, then such video would
-receive coverage under the sublicense for Internet Broadcast AVC
-Video, which is not subject to any royalties for the life of the AVC
-License.  This would also apply in the scenario where a user creates a
-free online account in order to receive a customized offering of free
-AVC Video content.  In other words, as long as the End User is given
-access to or views AVC Video content at no cost to the End User, then
-no royalties would be payable under our AVC License.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, if End Users pay for access to AVC Video for a
-specific period of time (e.g., one month, one year, etc.), then such
-video would constitute Subscription AVC Video.  In cases where AVC
-Video is delivered to End Users on a pay-per-view basis, then such
-content would constitute Title-by-Title AVC Video.  If a party offers
-Subscription or Title-by-Title AVC Video to End Users, then they would
-be responsible for paying the applicable royalties you noted below.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Finally, in the case where AVC Video is distributed for free
-through an &quot;over-the-air, satellite and/or cable transmission&quot;, then
-such content would constitute Free Television AVC Video and would be
-subject to the applicable royalties.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;For your reference, I have attached
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-07-07-mpegla.pdf&quot;&gt;a
-.pdf copy of the AVC License&lt;/a&gt;. You will find the relevant
-sublicense information regarding AVC Video in Sections 2.2 through
-2.5, and the corresponding royalties in Section 3.1.2 through 3.1.4.
-You will also find the definitions of Title-by-Title AVC Video,
-Subscription AVC Video, Free Television AVC Video, and Internet
-Broadcast AVC Video in Section 1 of the License.  Please note that the
-electronic copy is provided for informational purposes only and cannot
-be used for execution.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I hope the above information is helpful.  If you have additional
-questions or need further assistance with the AVC License, please feel
-free to contact me directly.&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Having a fresh copy of the license text was useful, and knowing
-that the definition of Title-by-Title required payment per title made
-me aware that my earlier understanding of that phrase had been wrong.
-But I still had a few questions:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;I have a small followup question.  Would it be possible for me to get
-a license with MPEG LA even if there are no royalties to be paid?  The
-reason I ask, is that some video related products have a copyright
-clause limiting their use without a license with MPEG LA.  The clauses
-typically look similar to this:
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
-  This product is licensed under the AVC patent portfolio license for
-  the personal and non-commercial use of a consumer to (a) encode
-  video in compliance with the AVC standard (&quot;AVC video&quot;) and/or (b)
-  decode AVC video that was encoded by a consumer engaged in a
-  personal and non-commercial activity and/or AVC video that was
-  obtained from a video provider licensed to provide AVC video. No
-  license is granted or shall be implied for any other use. additional
-  information may be obtained from MPEG LA L.L.C.
-&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;It is unclear to me if this clause mean that I need to enter into
-an agreement with MPEG LA to use the product in question, even if
-there are no royalties to be paid to MPEG LA.  I suspect it will
-differ depending on the jurisdiction, and mine is Norway.  What is
-MPEG LAs view on this?&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;According to the answer, MPEG LA believe those using such tools for
-non-personal or commercial use need a license with them:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;With regard to the Notice to Customers, I would like to begin by
-clarifying that the Notice from Section 7.1 of the AVC License
-reads:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;THIS PRODUCT IS LICENSED UNDER THE AVC PATENT PORTFOLIO LICENSE FOR
-THE PERSONAL USE OF A CONSUMER OR OTHER USES IN WHICH IT DOES NOT
-RECEIVE REMUNERATION TO (i) ENCODE VIDEO IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE AVC
-STANDARD (&quot;AVC VIDEO&quot;) AND/OR (ii) DECODE AVC VIDEO THAT WAS ENCODED
-BY A CONSUMER ENGAGED IN A PERSONAL ACTIVITY AND/OR WAS OBTAINED FROM
-A VIDEO PROVIDER LICENSED TO PROVIDE AVC VIDEO. NO LICENSE IS GRANTED
-OR SHALL BE IMPLIED FOR ANY OTHER USE. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION MAY BE
-OBTAINED FROM MPEG LA, L.L.C. SEE HTTP://WWW.MPEGLA.COM&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The Notice to Customers is intended to inform End Users of the
-personal usage rights (for example, to watch video content) included
-with the product they purchased, and to encourage any party using the
-product for commercial purposes to contact MPEG LA in order to become
-licensed for such use (for example, when they use an AVC Product to
-deliver Title-by-Title, Subscription, Free Television or Internet
-Broadcast AVC Video to End Users, or to re-Sell a third party&#39;s AVC
-Product as their own branded AVC Product).&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Therefore, if a party is to be licensed for its use of an AVC
-Product to Sell AVC Video on a Title-by-Title, Subscription, Free
-Television or Internet Broadcast basis, that party would need to
-conclude the AVC License, even in the case where no royalties were
-payable under the License.  On the other hand, if that party (either a
-Consumer or business customer) simply uses an AVC Product for their
-own internal purposes and not for the commercial purposes referenced
-above, then such use would be included in the royalty paid for the AVC
-Products by the licensed supplier.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Finally, I note that our AVC License provides worldwide coverage in
-countries that have AVC Patent Portfolio Patents, including
-Norway.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I hope this clarification is helpful.  If I may be of any further
-assistance, just let me know.&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The mentioning of Norwegian patents made me a bit confused, so I
-asked for more information:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;But one minor question at the end.  If I understand you correctly,
-you state in the quote above that there are patents in the AVC Patent
-Portfolio that are valid in Norway.  This make me believe I read the
-list available from &amp;lt;URL:
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/AVC/Pages/PatentList.aspx&quot;&gt;http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/AVC/Pages/PatentList.aspx&lt;/a&gt;
-&amp;gt; incorrectly, as I believed the &quot;NO&quot; prefix in front of patents
-were Norwegian patents, and the only one I could find under Mitsubishi
-Electric Corporation expired in 2012.  Which patents are you referring
-to that are relevant for Norway?&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Again, the quick answer explained how to read the list of patents
-in that list:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Your understanding is correct that the last AVC Patent Portfolio
-Patent in Norway expired on 21 October 2012.  Therefore, where AVC
-Video is both made and Sold in Norway after that date, then no
-royalties would be payable for such AVC Video under the AVC License.
-With that said, our AVC License provides historic coverage for AVC
-Products and AVC Video that may have been manufactured or Sold before
-the last Norwegian AVC patent expired.  I would also like to clarify
-that coverage is provided for the country of manufacture and the
-country of Sale that has active AVC Patent Portfolio Patents.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Therefore, if a party offers AVC Products or AVC Video for Sale in
-a country with active AVC Patent Portfolio Patents (for example,
-Sweden, Denmark, Finland, etc.), then that party would still need
-coverage under the AVC License even if such products or video are
-initially made in a country without active AVC Patent Portfolio
-Patents (for example, Norway).  Similarly, a party would need to
-conclude the AVC License if they make AVC Products or AVC Video in a
-country with active AVC Patent Portfolio Patents, but eventually Sell
-such AVC Products or AVC Video in a country without active AVC Patent
-Portfolio Patents.&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;As far as I understand it, MPEG LA believe anyone using Adobe
-Premiere and other video related software with a H.264 distribution
-license need a license agreement with MPEG LA to use such tools for
-anything non-private or commercial, while it is OK to set up a
-Youtube-like service as long as no-one pays to get access to the
-content.  I still have no clear idea how this applies to Norway, where
-none of the patents MPEG LA is licensing are valid.  Will the
-copyright terms take precedence or can those terms be ignored because
-the patents are not valid in Norway?&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Creepy, visualise geotagged social media information - nice free software</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Creepy__visualise_geotagged_social_media_information___nice_free_software.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Creepy__visualise_geotagged_social_media_information___nice_free_software.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2016 10:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Most people seem not to realise that every time they walk around
+with the computerised radio beacon known as a mobile phone their
+position is tracked by the phone company and often stored for a long
+time (like every time a SMS is received or sent).  And if their
+computerised radio beacon is capable of running programs (often called
+mobile apps) downloaded from the Internet, these programs are often
+also capable of tracking their location (if the app requested access
+during installation).  And when these programs send out information to
+central collection points, the location is often included, unless
+extra care is taken to not send the location.  The provided
+information is used by several entities, for good and bad (what is
+good and bad, depend on your point of view).  What is certain, is that
+the private sphere and the right to free movement is challenged and
+perhaps even eradicated for those announcing their location this way,
+when they share their whereabouts with private and public
+entities.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;70%&quot; src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2016-01-24-nice-creepy-desktop-window.png&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The phone company logs provide a register of locations to check out
+when one want to figure out what the tracked person was doing.  It is
+unavailable for most of us, but provided to selected government
+officials, company staff, those illegally buying information from
+unfaithful servants and crackers stealing the information.  But the
+public information can be collected and analysed, and a free software
+tool to do so is called
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.geocreepy.com/&quot;&gt;Creepy or Cree.py&lt;/a&gt;.  I
+discovered it when I read
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aftenposten.no/kultur/Slik-kan-du-bli-overvaket-pa-Twitter-og-Instagram-uten-a-ane-det-7787884.html&quot;&gt;an
+article about Creepy&lt;/a&gt; in the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten i
+November 2014, and decided to check if it was available in Debian.
+The python program was in Debian, but
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/creepy&quot;&gt;the version in
+Debian&lt;/a&gt; was completely broken and practically unmaintained.  I
+uploaded a new version which did not work quite right, but did not
+have time to fix it then.  This Christmas I decided to finally try to
+get Creepy operational in Debian.  Now a fixed version is available in
+Debian unstable and testing, and almost all Debian specific patches
+are now included
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/jkakavas/creepy&quot;&gt;upstream&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The Creepy program visualises geolocation information fetched from
+Twitter, Instagram, Flickr and Google+, and allow one to get a
+complete picture of every social media message posted recently in a
+given area, or track the movement of a given individual across all
+these services.  Earlier it was possible to use the search API of at
+least some of these services without identifying oneself, but these
+days it is impossible.  This mean that to use Creepy, you need to
+configure it to log in as yourself on these services, and provide
+information to them about your search interests.  This should be taken
+into account when using Creepy, as it will also share information
+about yourself with the services.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The picture above show the twitter messages sent from (or at least
+geotagged with a position from) the city centre of Oslo, the capital
+of Norway.  One useful way to use Creepy is to first look at
+information tagged with an area of interest, and next look at all the
+information provided by one or more individuals who was in the area.
+I tested it by checking out which celebrity provide their location in
+twitter messages by checkout out who sent twitter messages near a
+Norwegian TV station, and next could track their position over time,
+making it possible to locate their home and work place, among other
+things.  A similar technique have been
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.buzzfeed.com/maxseddon/does-this-soldiers-instagram-account-prove-russia-is-covertl&quot;&gt;used
+to locate Russian soldiers in Ukraine&lt;/a&gt;, and it is both a powerful
+tool to discover lying governments, and a useful tool to help people
+understand the value of the private information they provide to the
+public.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The package is not trivial to backport to Debian Stable/Jessie, as
+it depend on several python modules currently missing in Jessie (at
+least python-instagram, python-flickrapi and
+python-requests-toolbelt).&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;(I have uploaded
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://screenshots.debian.net/package/creepy&quot;&gt;the image to
+screenshots.debian.net&lt;/a&gt; and licensed it under the same terms as the
+Creepy program in Debian.)&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>New laptop - some more clues and ideas based on feedback</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_laptop___some_more_clues_and_ideas_based_on_feedback.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_laptop___some_more_clues_and_ideas_based_on_feedback.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sun, 5 Jul 2015 21:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Several people contacted me after my previous blog post about my
-need for a new laptop, and provided very useful feedback.  I wish to
-thank every one of these.  Several pointed me to the possibility of
-fixing my X230, and I am already in the process of getting Lenovo to
-do so thanks to the on site, next day support contract covering the
-machine.  But the battery is almost useless (I expect to replace it
-with a non-official battery) and I do not expect the machine to live
-for many more years, so it is time to plan its replacement.  If I did
-not have a support contract, it was suggested to find replacement parts
-using &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.francecrans.com/&quot;&gt;FrancEcrans&lt;/a&gt;, but it
-might present a language barrier as I do not understand French.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;One tip I got was to use the
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://skinflint.co.uk/?cat=nb&quot;&gt;Skinflint&lt;/a&gt; web service to
-compare laptop models.  It seem to have more models available than
-prisjakt.no.  Another tip I got from someone I know have similar
-keyboard preferences was that the HP EliteBook 840 keyboard is not
-very good, and this matches my experience with earlier EliteBook
-keyboards I tested.  Because of this, I will not consider it any further.
-
-&lt;p&gt;When I wrote my blog post, I was not aware of Thinkpad X250, the
-newest Thinkpad X model.  The keyboard reintroduces mouse buttons
-(which is missing from the X240), and is working fairly well with
-Debian Sid/Unstable according to
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.corsac.net/X250/&quot;&gt;Corsac.net&lt;/a&gt;.  The reports I
-got on the keyboard quality are not consistent.  Some say the keyboard
-is good, others say it is ok, while others say it is not very good.
-Those with experience from X41 and and X60 agree that the X250
-keyboard is not as good as those trusty old laptops, and suggest I
-keep and fix my X230 instead of upgrading, or get a used X230 to
-replace it.  I&#39;m also told that the X250 lack leds for caps lock, disk
-activity and battery status, which is very convenient on my X230.  I&#39;m
-also told that the CPU fan is running very often, making it a bit
-noisy.  In any case, the X250 do not work out of the box with Debian
-Stable/Jessie, one of my requirements.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I have also gotten a few vendor proposals, one was
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://pro-star.com&quot;&gt;Pro-Star&lt;/a&gt;, another was
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://shop.gluglug.org.uk/product/libreboot-x200/&quot;&gt;Libreboot&lt;/a&gt;.
-The latter look very attractive to me.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Again, thank you all for the very useful feedback.  It help a lot
-as I keep looking for a replacement.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Update 2015-07-06: I was recommended to check out the
-&lt;a href=&quot;&quot;&gt;lapstore.de&lt;/a&gt; web shop for used laptops.  They got several
-different
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lapstore.de/f.php/shop/lapstore/f/411/lang/x/kw/Lenovo_ThinkPad_X_Serie/&quot;&gt;old
-thinkpad X models&lt;/a&gt;, and provide one year warranty.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Always download Debian packages using Tor - the simple recipe</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Always_download_Debian_packages_using_Tor___the_simple_recipe.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Always_download_Debian_packages_using_Tor___the_simple_recipe.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2016 00:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;During his DebConf15 keynote, Jacob Appelbaum
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://summit.debconf.org/debconf15/meeting/331/what-is-to-be-done/&quot;&gt;observed
+that those listening on the Internet lines would have good reason to
+believe a computer have a given security hole&lt;/a&gt; if it download a
+security fix from a Debian mirror.  This is a good reason to always
+use encrypted connections to the Debian mirror, to make sure those
+listening do not know which IP address to attack.  In August, Richard
+Hartmann observed that encryption was not enough, when it was possible
+to interfere download size to security patches or the fact that
+download took place shortly after a security fix was released, and
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://richardhartmann.de/blog/posts/2015/08/24-Tor-enabled_Debian_mirror/&quot;&gt;proposed
+to always use Tor to download packages from the Debian mirror&lt;/a&gt;.  He
+was not the first to propose this, as the
+&lt;tt&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/apt-transport-tor&quot;&gt;apt-transport-tor&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/tt&gt;
+package by Tim Retout already existed to make it easy to convince apt
+to use &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.torproject.org/&quot;&gt;Tor&lt;/a&gt;, but I was not
+aware of that package when I read the blog post from Richard.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Richard discussed the idea with Peter Palfrader, one of the Debian
+sysadmins, and he set up a Tor hidden service on one of the central
+Debian mirrors using the address vwakviie2ienjx6t.onion, thus making
+it possible to download packages directly between two tor nodes,
+making sure the network traffic always were encrypted.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Here is a short recipe for enabling this on your machine, by
+installing &lt;tt&gt;apt-transport-tor&lt;/tt&gt; and replacing http and https
+urls with tor+http and tor+https, and using the hidden service instead
+of the official Debian mirror site.  I recommend installing
+&lt;tt&gt;etckeeper&lt;/tt&gt; before you start to have a history of the changes
+done in /etc/.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+apt install apt-transport-tor
+sed -i &#39;s% http://ftp.debian.org/% tor+http://vwakviie2ienjx6t.onion/%&#39; /etc/apt/sources.list
+sed -i &#39;s% http% tor+http%&#39; /etc/apt/sources.list
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;If you have more sources listed in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/, run
+the sed commands for these too.  The sed command is assuming your are
+using the ftp.debian.org Debian mirror.  Adjust the command (or just
+edit the file manually) to match your mirror.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;This work in Debian Jessie and later.  Note that tools like
+&lt;tt&gt;apt-file&lt;/tt&gt; only recently started using the apt transport
+system, and do not work with these tor+http URLs.  For
+&lt;tt&gt;apt-file&lt;/tt&gt; you need the version currently in experimental,
+which need a recent apt version currently only in unstable.  So if you
+need a working &lt;tt&gt;apt-file&lt;/tt&gt;, this is not for you.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Another advantage from this change is that your machine will start
+using Tor regularly and at fairly random intervals (every time you
+update the package lists or upgrade or install a new package), thus
+masking other Tor traffic done from the same machine.  Using Tor will
+become normal for the machine in question.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;On &lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox&quot;&gt;Freedombox&lt;/a&gt;, APT
+is set up by default to use &lt;tt&gt;apt-transport-tor&lt;/tt&gt; when Tor is
+enabled.  It would be great if it was the default on any Debian
+system.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Time to find a new laptop, as the old one is broken after only two years</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Time_to_find_a_new_laptop__as_the_old_one_is_broken_after_only_two_years.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Time_to_find_a_new_laptop__as_the_old_one_is_broken_after_only_two_years.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Fri, 3 Jul 2015 07:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;My primary work horse laptop is failing, and will need a
-replacement soon.  The left 5 cm of the screen on my Thinkpad X230
-started flickering yesterday, and I suspect the cause is a broken
-cable, as changing the angle of the screen some times get rid of the
-flickering.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;My requirements have not really changed since I bought it, and is
-still as
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Thank_you_Thinkpad_X41__for_your_long_and_trustworthy_service.html&quot;&gt;I
-described them in 2013&lt;/a&gt;.  The last time I bought a laptop, I had
-good help from
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.prisjakt.no/category.php?k=353&quot;&gt;prisjakt.no&lt;/a&gt;
-where I could select at least a few of the requirements (mouse pin,
-wifi, weight) and go through the rest manually.  Three button mouse
-and a good keyboard is not available as an option, and all the three
-laptop models proposed today (Thinkpad X240, HP EliteBook 820 G1 and
-G2) lack three mouse buttons).  It is also unclear to me how good the
-keyboard on the HP EliteBooks are.  I hope Lenovo have not messed up
-the keyboard, even if the quality and robustness in the X series have
-deteriorated since X41.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I wonder how I can find a sensible laptop when none of the options
-seem sensible to me?  Are there better services around to search the
-set of available laptops for features?  Please send me an email if you
-have suggestions.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Update 2015-07-23: I got a suggestion to check out the FSF
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/respects-your-freedom&quot;&gt;list
-of endorsed hardware&lt;/a&gt;, which is useful background information.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Nedlasting fra NRK, som Matroska med undertekster</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Nedlasting_fra_NRK__som_Matroska_med_undertekster.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Nedlasting_fra_NRK__som_Matroska_med_undertekster.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sat, 2 Jan 2016 13:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Det kommer stadig nye løsninger for å ta lagre unna innslag fra NRK
+for å se på det senere.  For en stund tilbake kom jeg over et script
+nrkopptak laget av Ingvar Hagelund.  Han fjernet riktignok sitt script
+etter forespørsel fra Erik Bolstad i NRK, men noen tok heldigvis og
+gjorde det &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/liangqi/nrkopptak&quot;&gt;tilgjengelig
+via github&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Scriptet kan lagre som MPEG4 eller Matroska, og bake inn
+undertekster i fila på et vis som blant annet VLC forstår.  For å
+bruke scriptet, kopier ned git-arkivet og kjør&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+nrkopptak/bin/nrk-opptak k &lt;ahref=&quot;https://tv.nrk.no/serie/bmi-turne/MUHH45000115/sesong-1/episode-1&quot;&gt;https://tv.nrk.no/serie/bmi-turne/MUHH45000115/sesong-1/episode-1&lt;/a&gt;
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;URL-eksemplet er dagens toppsak på tv.nrk.no.  Argument &#39;k&#39; ber
+scriptet laste ned og lagre som Matroska.  Det finnes en rekke andre
+muligheter for valg av kvalitet og format.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Jeg foretrekker dette scriptet fremfor youtube-dl, som
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hvordan_enkelt_laste_ned_filmer_fra_NRK_med_den__nye__l_sningen.html&quot;&gt;
+nevnt i 2014 støtter NRK&lt;/a&gt; og en rekke andre videokilder, på grunn
+av at nrkopptak samler undertekster og video i en enkelt fil, hvilket
+gjør håndtering enklere på disk.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>MakerCon Nordic videos now available on Frikanalen</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/MakerCon_Nordic_videos_now_available_on_Frikanalen.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/MakerCon_Nordic_videos_now_available_on_Frikanalen.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Thu, 2 Jul 2015 14:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Last oktober I was involved on behalf of
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/&quot;&gt;NUUG&lt;/a&gt; with recording the talks at
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.makercon.no/&quot;&gt;MakerCon Nordic&lt;/a&gt;, a conference for
-the Maker movement.  Since then it has been the plan to publish the
-recordings on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.frikanalen.no/&quot;&gt;Frikanalen&lt;/a&gt;, which
-finally happened the last few days.  A few talks are missing because
-the speakers asked the organizers to not publish them, but most of the
-talks are available.  The talks are being broadcasted on RiksTV
-channel 50 and using multicast on Uninett, as well as being available
-from the Frikanalen web site.  The unedited recordings are
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/user/MakerConNordic/&quot;&gt;available on
-Youtube too&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;This is the list of talks available at the moment.  Visit the
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.frikanalen.no/video/?q=makercon&quot;&gt;Frikanalen video
-pages&lt;/a&gt; to view them.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;ul&gt;
-
-  &lt;li&gt;Evolutionary algorithms as a design tool - from art
-      to robotics (Kyrre Glette)&lt;/li&gt;
-
-  &lt;li&gt;Make and break (Hans Gerhard Meier)&lt;/li&gt;
-
-  &lt;li&gt;Making a one year school course for young makers
-      (Olav Helland)&lt;/li&gt;
-
-  &lt;li&gt;Innovation Inspiration - IPR Databases as a Source of
-      Inspiration (Hege Langlo)&lt;/li&gt;
-
-  &lt;li&gt;Making a toy for makers (Erik Torstensson)&lt;/li&gt;
-
-  &lt;li&gt;How to make 3D printer electronics (Elias Bakken)&lt;/li&gt;
-
-  &lt;li&gt;Hovering Clouds: Looking at online tool offerings for Product
-      Design and 3D Printing (William Kempton)&lt;/li&gt;
-
-  &lt;li&gt;Travelling maker stories (Øyvind Nydal Dahl)&lt;/li&gt;
-
-  &lt;li&gt;Making the first Maker Faire in Sweden (Nils Olander)&lt;/li&gt;
-
-  &lt;li&gt;Breaking the mold: Printing 1000’s of parts (Espen Sivertsen)&lt;/li&gt;
-
-  &lt;li&gt;Ultimaker — and open source 3D printing (Erik de Bruijn)&lt;/li&gt;
-
-  &lt;li&gt;Autodesk’s 3D Printing Platform: Sparking innovation (Hilde
-      Sevens)&lt;/li&gt;
-
-  &lt;li&gt;How Making is Changing the World – and How You Can Too!
-      (Jennifer Turliuk)&lt;/li&gt;
-
-  &lt;li&gt;Open-Source Adventuring: OpenROV, OpenExplorer and the Future of
-      Connected Exploration (David Lang)&lt;/li&gt;
-
-  &lt;li&gt;Making in Norway (Haakon Karlsen Jr., Graham Hayward and Jens
-      Dyvik)&lt;/li&gt;
-
-  &lt;li&gt;The Impact of the Maker Movement (Mike Senese)&lt;/li&gt;
-
-&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Part of the reason this took so long was that the scripts NUUG had
-to prepare a recording for publication were five years old and no
-longer worked with the current video processing tools (command line
-argument changes).  In addition, we needed better audio normalization,
-which sent me on a detour to
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Measuring_and_adjusting_the_loudness_of_a_TV_channel_using_bs1770gain.html&quot;&gt;package
-bs1770gain for Debian&lt;/a&gt;.  Now this is in place and it became a lot
-easier to publish NUUG videos on Frikanalen.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>OpenALPR, find car license plates in video streams - nice free software</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/OpenALPR__find_car_license_plates_in_video_streams___nice_free_software.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/OpenALPR__find_car_license_plates_in_video_streams___nice_free_software.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2015 01:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;When I was a kid, we used to collect &quot;car numbers&quot;, as we used to
+call the car license plate numbers in those days.  I would write the
+numbers down in my little book and compare notes with the other kids
+to see how many region codes we had seen and if we had seen some
+exotic or special region codes and numbers.  It was a fun game to pass
+time, as we kids have plenty of it.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;A few days I came across
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/openalpr/openalpr&quot;&gt;the OpenALPR
+project&lt;/a&gt;, a free software project to automatically discover and
+report license plates in images and video streams, and provide the
+&quot;car numbers&quot; in a machine readable format.  I&#39;ve been looking for
+such system for a while now, because I believe it is a bad idea that the
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_number_plate_recognition&quot;&gt;automatic
+number plate recognition&lt;/a&gt; tool only is available in the hands of
+the powerful, and want it to be available also for the powerless to
+even the score when it comes to surveillance and sousveillance.  I
+discovered the developer
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/747509&quot;&gt;wanted to get the tool into
+Debian&lt;/a&gt;, and as I too wanted it to be in Debian, I volunteered to
+help him get it into shape to get the package uploaded into the Debian
+archive.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Today we finally managed to get the package into shape and uploaded
+it into Debian, where it currently
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://ftp-master.debian.org//new/openalpr_2.2.1-1.html&quot;&gt;waits
+in the NEW queue&lt;/a&gt; for review by the Debian ftpmasters.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I guess you are wondering why on earth such tool would be useful
+for the common folks, ie those not running a large government
+surveillance system?  Well, I plan to put it in a computer on my bike
+and in my car, tracking the cars nearby and allowing me to be notified
+when number plates on my watch list are discovered.  Another use case
+was suggested by a friend of mine, who wanted to set it up at his home
+to open the car port automatically when it discovered the plate on his
+car.  When I mentioned it perhaps was a bit foolhardy to allow anyone
+capable of placing his license plate number of a piece of cardboard to
+open his car port, men replied that it was always unlocked anyway.  I
+guess for such use case it make sense.  I am sure there are other use
+cases too, for those with imagination and a vision.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;If you want to build your own version of the Debian package, check
+out the upstream git source and symlink ./distros/debian to ./debian/
+before running &quot;debuild&quot; to build the source.  Or wait a bit until the
+package show up in unstable.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Hvem fører Medietilsynet tilsyn med?</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hvem_f_rer_Medietilsynet_tilsyn_med_.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hvem_f_rer_Medietilsynet_tilsyn_med_.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2015 23:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;I en global verden med eierskap på tvers, trengs det informasjon om
-hvem som har kontrollen i selskaper og bedrifter.  Og for å få tilgang
-til slik informasjon for alle som ønsker å analysere eierskap, holder
-med ikke med nasjonale databaser over eierskap, det må globale
-samledatabaser med åpne data til.  Heldigvis finnes det en
-internasjonal bevegelse for å gjøre selskapsinformasjon for alle land
-offentlig tilgjengelig.  En slik database heter
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://opencorporates.com&quot;&gt;OpenCorporates&lt;/a&gt;, der
-informasjonen er gratis tilgjengelig med en &quot;del på samme
-vilkår&quot;-lisens.  De samler inn selskapsinformasjon, eierskap,
-konsesjonstildelinger og lignende.  De manglet ganske mye for Norge,
-da bruksvilkårene til Norsk offentlig informasjon i stor grad
-blokkerer OpenCorporates fra å samle den inn.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Men jeg er jo involvert i
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.frikanalen.no/&quot;&gt;Frikanalen&lt;/a&gt;, som har
-TV-konsesjon, og tenkte det kunne være fint om informasjon om alle
-mediakonsesjoner var tilgjengelig i OpenCorporates, så jeg sendte
-avgårde følgende spørsmål til Medietilsynet 2015-06-22:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;blockquote&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;Hei.  Finnes det en oversikt over enhetene som Mediatilsynet fører
-tilsyn med som åpne data?  Jeg lette etter den på
-&amp;lt;URL:&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.norge.no/&quot;&gt;http://data.norge.no/&lt;/a&gt;&amp;gt; og
-&amp;lt;URL:&lt;a href=&quot;http://hotell.difi.no/&quot;&gt;http://hotell.difi.no/&lt;/a&gt;&amp;gt; uten å
-finne noe der, og fant heller ikke noe under
-&amp;lt;URL:&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.medietilsynet.no/&quot;&gt;http://www.medietilsynet.no/&lt;/a&gt;&amp;gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Jeg tenker på alle som har fått kringkastingskonsesjon og alle som
-er omtalt under
-&amp;lt;URL:&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.medietilsynet.no/mediebildet/&quot;&gt;http://www.medietilsynet.no/mediebildet/&lt;/a&gt;&amp;gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Jeg skulle gjerne hatt dette maskinlesbart, og inkludert
-organisasjonsnummer og hva slags forhold mediatilsynet har til
-organisasjonene.  Tanken er å importere det i
-&amp;lt;URL:&lt;a href=&quot;https://opencorporates.com/&quot;&gt;https://opencorporates.com/&lt;/a&gt;&amp;gt; for analyse, så det bør ikke ha
-bruksbegresninger som gjør dette umulig.&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;/blockquote&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;To dager senere fikk jeg svar, med de datasettene de hadde
-tilgjengelig.  Svaret fra Hanne Sekkelsten hos Medietilsynet var
-informativt og imøtekommende.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;blockquote&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;Vi viser til din e-post av 22. juni, der du ber om å få tilsendt oversikter
-over aktører Medietilsynet fører tilsyn med.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Medietilsynet fører tilsyn med kringkastere og audiovisuelle
-bestillingstjenester som omfattes av kringkastingsloven, og med
-eierskap i aviser, fjernsyn radio og elektroniske medier etter
-medieeierskapsloven. I tillegg vil Medietilsynet etter at
-beskyttelsesloven trer i kraft fra 1. juli ha tilsyn med en rekke nye
-aktører. Nærmere informasjon om den nye loven finnes på Medietilsynets
-nettsted, her:
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.medietilsynet.no/mediebransjen/bildeprogramloven/&quot;&gt;http://www.medietilsynet.no/mediebransjen/bildeprogramloven/&lt;/a&gt;
-.  Vi har ikke utarbeidet oversikter over alle aktørene, men vi sender
-deg her de listene vi har utarbeidet, hentet fra våre databaser. Vi
-har dessverre ikke ferdige rapporter som inneholder
-organisasjonsnummer. Dersom du ønsker flere opplysninger ber vi om at
-du tar kontakt med oss slik at vi kan finne ut av hvilke opplysninger
-du trenger, og hvilke vi kan fremskaffe.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Vedlagt følger:
-
-&lt;ul&gt;
-
-  &lt;li&gt;Konsesjoner - lokalradio FM pr. 31.12.2014 [&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-06-28-medietilsynsdata/Konsesjoner_lokalradio_fm_felles_31.12.2014.pdf&quot;&gt;PDF (original)&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/li&gt;
-
-  &lt;li&gt;Konsesjoner - lokalfjernsyn i det digitale bakkenettet for fjernsyn, pr. mars 2015 [&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-06-28-medietilsynsdata/Lokalfjernsyn_DTT_konsesjoner_mars_2015.docx&quot;&gt;DOCX (original)&lt;/a&gt;, 
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-06-28-medietilsynsdata/Lokalfjernsyn_DTT_konsesjoner_mars_2015.pdf&quot;&gt;PDF&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/li&gt;
-
-  &lt;li&gt;Konsesjoner - DAB-radio, status mars 2015 [&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-06-28-medietilsynsdata/Konsesjonaernummer_DAB.xps&quot;&gt;XPS (original)&lt;/a&gt;,
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-06-28-medietilsynsdata/Konsesjonaernummer_DAB.pdf&quot;&gt;PDF&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/li&gt;
-
-  &lt;li&gt;Registreringspliktige kringkastere - status mars 2015: [&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-06-28-medietilsynsdata/Registreringspliktige_kringkastere_register_-_aktive.xps&quot;&gt;XPS (original)&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-06-28-medietilsynsdata/Registreringspliktige_kringkastere_register_-_aktive.pdf&quot;&gt;PDF&lt;/a&gt;]
-
-    &lt;ul&gt;
-      &lt;li&gt;Kabelsendt fjernsyn
-      &lt;li&gt;Satellittsendt fjernsyn
-      &lt;li&gt;Nett-tv
-      &lt;li&gt;Kabelsendt radio
-      &lt;li&gt;Satellittsendt radio
-      &lt;li&gt;Nett-radio
-    &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Vi må ta forbehold om at det kan være enkelte feil i oversiktene
-siden disse ikke er oppdaterte pr. dags dato. Vi vil foreta nye
-oppdateringer i august.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Med hilsen&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Hanne Nistad Sekkelsten
-&lt;br&gt;Seniorrådgiver | Senior Legal Adviser
-&lt;br&gt;Medietilsynet | Norwegian Media Authority
-&lt;br&gt;A: Nygata 4, NO-1607 Fredrikstad
-&lt;br&gt;T: [telefonnummer fjernet]
-&lt;br&gt;E: [adresse fjernet] | W: www.medietilsynet.no
-&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;/blockquote&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Desverre er formatene for ustrukturerte til maskinell behandling og
-mangler endel informasjon, men det er gode oversikter over hvem
-Medietilsynet fører tilsyn med.  Filene er på formatene PDF, XPS
-(XML-basert PDF-lignende format fra Microsoft) og DOCX, så det vil
-være en stor jobb å strukturere informasjonen på en måte som kan
-importeres i OpenCorporates.  Svaret er ikke i tråd med
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2013-04-05-959&quot;&gt;Forskrift
-om IT-standarder i offentlig forvaltning&lt;/a&gt; som sier epostvedlegg
-skal sendes som PDF, så jeg har gjorde PDF-utgaver av XPS og
-DOCX-utgavene tilgjengelig for å gjøre det enklere for alle å se
-innholdet.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Using appstream with isenkram to install hardware related packages in Debian</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Using_appstream_with_isenkram_to_install_hardware_related_packages_in_Debian.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Using_appstream_with_isenkram_to_install_hardware_related_packages_in_Debian.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2015 12:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Around three years ago, I created
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/isenkram&quot;&gt;the isenkram
+system&lt;/a&gt; to get a more practical solution in Debian for handing
+hardware related packages.  A GUI system in the isenkram package will
+present a pop-up dialog when some hardware dongle supported by
+relevant packages in Debian is inserted into the machine.  The same
+lookup mechanism to detect packages is available as command line
+tools in the isenkram-cli package.  In addition to mapping hardware,
+it will also map kernel firmware files to packages and make it easy to
+install needed firmware packages automatically.  The key for this
+system to work is a good way to map hardware to packages, in other
+words, allow packages to announce what hardware they will work
+with.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I started by providing data files in the isenkram source, and
+adding code to download the latest version of these data files at run
+time, to ensure every user had the most up to date mapping available.
+I also added support for storing the mapping in the Packages file in
+the apt repositories, but did not push this approach because while I
+was trying to figure out how to best store hardware/package mappings,
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.freedesktop.org/software/appstream/docs/&quot;&gt;the
+appstream system&lt;/a&gt; was announced.  I got in touch and suggested to
+add the hardware mapping into that data set to be able to use
+appstream as a data source, and this was accepted at least for the
+Debian version of appstream.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;A few days ago using appstream in Debian for this became possible,
+and today I uploaded a new version 0.20 of isenkram adding support for
+appstream as a data source for mapping hardware to packages.  The only
+package so far using appstream to announce its hardware support is my
+pymissile package.  I got help from Matthias Klumpp with figuring out
+how do add the required
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://appstream.debian.org/html/sid/main/metainfo/pymissile.html&quot;&gt;metadata
+in pymissile&lt;/a&gt;.  I added a file debian/pymissile.metainfo.xml with
+this content:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+&amp;lt;?xml version=&quot;1.0&quot; encoding=&quot;UTF-8&quot;?&amp;gt;
+&amp;lt;component&amp;gt;
+  &amp;lt;id&amp;gt;pymissile&amp;lt;/id&amp;gt;
+  &amp;lt;metadata_license&amp;gt;MIT&amp;lt;/metadata_license&amp;gt;
+  &amp;lt;name&amp;gt;pymissile&amp;lt;/name&amp;gt;
+  &amp;lt;summary&amp;gt;Control original Striker USB Missile Launcher&amp;lt;/summary&amp;gt;
+  &amp;lt;description&amp;gt;
+    &amp;lt;p&amp;gt;
+      Pymissile provides a curses interface to control an original
+      Marks and Spencer / Striker USB Missile Launcher, as well as a
+      motion control script to allow a webcamera to control the
+      launcher.
+    &amp;lt;/p&amp;gt;
+  &amp;lt;/description&amp;gt;
+  &amp;lt;provides&amp;gt;
+    &amp;lt;modalias&amp;gt;usb:v1130p0202d*&amp;lt;/modalias&amp;gt;
+  &amp;lt;/provides&amp;gt;
+&amp;lt;/component&amp;gt;
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The key for isenkram is the component/provides/modalias value,
+which is a glob style match rule for hardware specific strings
+(modalias strings) provided by the Linux kernel.  In this case, it
+will map to all USB devices with vendor code 1130 and product code
+0202.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Note, it is important that the license of all the metadata files
+are compatible to have permissions to aggregate them into archive wide
+appstream files.  Matthias suggested to use MIT or BSD licenses for
+these files.  A challenge is figuring out a good id for the data, as
+it is supposed to be globally unique and shared across distributions
+(in other words, best to coordinate with upstream what to use).  But
+it can be changed later or, so we went with the package name as
+upstream for this project is dormant.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;To get the metadata file installed in the correct location for the
+mirror update scripts to pick it up and include its content the
+appstream data source, the file must be installed in the binary
+package under /usr/share/appdata/.  I did this by adding the following
+line to debian/pymissile.install:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+debian/pymissile.metainfo.xml usr/share/appdata
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;With that in place, the command line tool isenkram-lookup will list
+all packages useful on the current computer automatically, and the GUI
+pop-up handler will propose to install the package not already
+installed if a hardware dongle is inserted into the machine in
+question.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Details of the modalias field in appstream is available from the 
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://wiki.debian.org/DEP-11&quot;&gt;DEP-11&lt;/a&gt; proposal.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;To locate the modalias values of all hardware present in a machine,
+try running this command on the command line:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+cat $(find /sys/devices/|grep modalias)
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;To learn more about the isenkram system, please check out
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/isenkram/&quot;&gt;my
+blog posts tagged isenkram&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Graphing the Norwegian company ownership structure</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Graphing_the_Norwegian_company_ownership_structure.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Graphing_the_Norwegian_company_ownership_structure.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2015 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;It is a bit work to figure out the ownership structure of companies
-in Norway.  The information is publicly available, but one need to
-recursively look up ownership for all owners to figure out the complete
-ownership graph of a given set of companies.  To save me the work in
-the future, I wrote a script to do this automatically, outputting the
-ownership structure using the Graphviz/dotty format.  The data source
-is web scraping from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.proff.no/&quot;&gt;Proff&lt;/a&gt;, because
-I failed to find a useful source directly from the official keepers of
-the ownership data, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.brreg.no/&quot;&gt;Brønnøysundsregistrene&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;To get an ownership graph for a set of companies, fetch
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/brreg-norway-ownership-graph&quot;&gt;the code from git&lt;/a&gt; and run it using the organisation number.  I&#39;m
-using the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet as an example here, as its
-ownership structure is very simple:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;pre&gt;
-% time ./bin/eierskap-dotty 958033540 &gt; dagbladet.dot
-
-real    0m2.841s
-user    0m0.184s
-sys     0m0.036s
-%
-&lt;/pre&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The script accept several organisation numbers on the command line,
-allowing a cluster of companies to be graphed in the same image.  The
-resulting dot file for the example above look like this.  The edges
-are labeled with the ownership percentage, and the nodes uses the
-organisation number as their name and the name as the label:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;pre&gt;
-digraph ownership {
-rankdir = LR;
-&quot;Aller Holding A/s&quot; -&gt; &quot;910119877&quot; [label=&quot;100%&quot;]
-&quot;910119877&quot; -&gt; &quot;998689015&quot; [label=&quot;100%&quot;]
-&quot;998689015&quot; -&gt; &quot;958033540&quot; [label=&quot;99%&quot;]
-&quot;974530600&quot; -&gt; &quot;958033540&quot; [label=&quot;1%&quot;]
-&quot;958033540&quot; [label=&quot;AS DAGBLADET&quot;]
-&quot;998689015&quot; [label=&quot;Berner Media Holding AS&quot;]
-&quot;974530600&quot; [label=&quot;Dagbladets Stiftelse&quot;]
-&quot;910119877&quot; [label=&quot;Aller Media AS&quot;]
-}
-&lt;/pre&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;To view the ownership graph, run &quot;&lt;tt&gt;dotty dagbladet.dot&lt;/tt&gt;&quot; or
-convert it to a PNG using &quot;&lt;tt&gt;dot -T png dagbladet.dot &gt;
-dagbladet.png&lt;/tt&gt;&quot;.  The result can be seen below:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-06-15-ownership-graphs-norway-dagbladet.png&quot; width=&quot;80%&quot;&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Note that I suspect the &quot;Aller Holding A/S&quot; entry to be incorrect
-data in the official ownership register, as that name is not
-registered in the official company register for Norway.  The ownership
-register is sensitive to typos and there seem to be no strict checking
-of the ownership links.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Let me know if you improve the script or find better data sources.
-The code is licensed according to GPL 2 or newer.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Update 2015-06-15: Since the initial post I&#39;ve been told that
-&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.proff.dk/firma/carl-allers-etablissement-aktieselskab/københavn-v/hovedkontorer/13624518-3/&quot;&gt;Aller
-Holding A/S&lt;/a&gt;&quot; is a Danish company, which explain why it did not
-have a Norwegian organisation number.  I&#39;ve also been told that there
-is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.brreg.no/automatiske/webservices/&quot;&gt;web
-services API available&lt;/a&gt; from Brønnøysundsregistrene, for those
-willing to accept the terms or pay the price.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Bokhandeldistribusjon av boken Fri kultur av Lawrence Lessig</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Bokhandeldistribusjon_av_boken_Fri_kultur_av_Lawrence_Lessig.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Bokhandeldistribusjon_av_boken_Fri_kultur_av_Lawrence_Lessig.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2015 12:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Besøk
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22441576.html&quot;&gt;lulu.com&lt;/a&gt;
+eller
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.amazon.com/Fri-kultur-Norwegian-Lawrence-Lessig/dp/8269018236/&quot;&gt;Amazon&lt;/a&gt;
+for å kjøpe boken på papir, eller last ned ebook som
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/raw/master/archive/freeculture.nb.pdf&quot;&gt;PDF&lt;/a&gt;,
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/raw/master/archive/freeculture.nb.epub&quot;&gt;ePub&lt;/a&gt;
+eller
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/raw/master/archive/freeculture.nb.mobi&quot;&gt;MOBI&lt;/a&gt;
+fra
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/&quot;&gt;github&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Jeg ble gledelig overrasket i dag da jeg oppdaget at boken jeg har
+gitt ut
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.amazon.com/Fri-kultur-Norwegian-Lawrence-Lessig/dp/8269018236/&quot;&gt;hadde
+dukket opp i Amazon&lt;/a&gt;.  Jeg hadde trodd det skulle ta lenger tid, da
+jeg fikk beskjed om at det skulle ta seks til åtte uker.
+Amazonoppføringen er et resultat av at jeg for noen uker siden
+diskuterte prissetting og håndtering av profitt med forfatteren.  Det
+måtte avklares da bruksvilkårene til boken har krav om
+ikke-kommersiell bruk.  Vi ble enige om at overskuddet fra salg av
+boken skal sendes til
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://creativecommons.org/&quot;&gt;Creative Commons-stiftelsen&lt;/a&gt;.
+Med det på plass kunne jeg be
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/fri-kultur/paperback/product-22441576.html&quot;&gt;lulu.com&lt;/a&gt;
+om å gi boken «utvidet» distribusjon.  Årsaken til at
+bokhandeldistribusjon var litt utfordrende er at bokhandlere krever
+mulighet for profitt på bøkene de selger (selvfølgelig), og dermed
+måtte de få lov til å selge til høyere pris enn lulu.com.  I tillegg
+er det krav om samme pris på lulu.com og i bokhandlene, dermed blir
+prisen økt også hos lulu.com.  Hva skulle jeg gjøre med den profitten
+uten å bryte med klausulen om ikkekommersiell?  Løsningen var å gi
+bort profitten til CC-stiftelsen.  Prisen på boken ble nesten
+tredoblet, til $19.99 (ca. 160,-) pluss frakt, men synligheten øker
+betraktelig når den kan finnes i katalogene til store nettbokhandlere.
+Det betyr at hvis du allerede har kjøpt boken har du fått den veldig
+billig, og kjøper du den nå, får du den fortsatt billig samt donerer i
+tillegg noen tiere til fremme av Creative Commons.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Mens jeg var i gang med å titte etter informasjon om boken 
+oppdaget jeg  at den også var dukket opp på
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://books.google.no/books?id=uKUGCwAAQBAJ&quot;&gt;Google
+Books&lt;/a&gt;, der en kan lese den på web.  PDF-utgaven har ennå ikke
+dukket opp hos &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.nb.no/&quot;&gt;Nasjonalbiblioteket&lt;/a&gt;,
+men det regner jeg med kommer på plass i løpet av noen uker.  Boken er
+heller ikke dukket opp hos
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.barnesandnoble.com/&quot;&gt;Barnes &amp; Noble&lt;/a&gt; ennå, men
+jeg antar det bare er et tidsspørsmål før dette er på plass.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Boken er dessverre ikke tilgjengelig fra norske bokhandlere, og
+kommer neppe til å bli det med det første.  Årsaken er at for å få det
+til måtte jeg personlig håndtere bestilling av bøker, hvilket jeg ikke
+er interessert i å bruke tid på.  Jeg kunne betalt ca 2000,- til
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bokbasen.no/&quot;&gt;den norske bokbasen&lt;/a&gt;, en felles
+database over bøker tilgjengelig for norske bokhandlere, for å få en
+oppføring der, men da måtte jeg tatt imot bestillinger på epost og
+sendt ut bøker selv.  Det ville krevd at jeg var klar til å
+sende ut bøker på kort varsel, dvs. holdt meg med ekstra bøker,
+konvolutter og frimerker.  Bokbasen har visst ikke opplegg for å be
+bokhandlene bestille direkte via web, så jeg droppet oppføring der.
+Jeg har spurt Haugen bok og Tronsmo direkte på epost om de er
+interessert i å ta inn boken i sin bestillingskatalog, men ikke fått
+svar, så jeg antar de ikke er interessert.  Derimot har jeg fått en
+hyggelig henvendelse fra Biblioteksentralen som fortalte at de har
+lagt den inn i sin database slik at deres bibliotekskunder enkelt kan
+bestille den via dem.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Boken er i følge
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://bibsys-almaprimo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?tabs=detailsTab&amp;ct=display&amp;fn=search&amp;doc=BIBSYS_ILS71518423420002201&amp;indx=1&amp;recIds=BIBSYS_ILS71518423420002201&amp;recIdxs=0&amp;elementId=0&amp;renderMode=poppedOut&amp;displayMode=full&amp;frbrVersion=&amp;dscnt=0&amp;tab=library_catalogue&amp;dstmp=1448543801124&amp;vl(freeText0)=fri%20kultur&amp;vid=UBO&amp;mode=Basic&quot;&gt;Bibsys/Oria&lt;/a&gt;
+og bokdatabasen til
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.deich.folkebibl.no/cgi-bin/websok?tnr=1819617&quot;&gt;Deichmanske&lt;/a&gt;
+tilgjengelig fra flere biblioteker allerede, og alle eksemplarer er
+visst allerede utlånt med ventetid.  Det synes jeg er veldig gledelig
+å se.  Jeg håper mange kommer til å lese boken.  Jeg tror den er
+spesielt egnet for foreldre og bekjente av oss nerder for å forklare
+hva slags problemer vi ser med dagens opphavsrettsregime.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Measuring and adjusting the loudness of a TV channel using bs1770gain</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Measuring_and_adjusting_the_loudness_of_a_TV_channel_using_bs1770gain.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Measuring_and_adjusting_the_loudness_of_a_TV_channel_using_bs1770gain.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2015 13:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Television loudness is the source of frustration for viewers
-everywhere.  Some channels are very load, others are less loud, and
-ads tend to shout very high to get the attention of the viewers, and
-the viewers do not like this.  This fact is well known to the TV
-channels.  See for example the BBC white paper
-&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rd/pubs/whp/whp-pdf-files/WHP202.pdf&quot;&gt;Terminology
-for loudness and level dBTP, LU, and all that&lt;/a&gt;&quot; from 2011 for a
-summary of the problem domain.  To better address the need for even
-loadness, the TV channels got together several years ago to agree on a
-new way to measure loudness in digital files as one step in
-standardizing loudness.  From this came the ITU-R standard BS.1770,
-&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.itu.int/rec/R-REC-BS.1770/en&quot;&gt;Algorithms to
-measure audio programme loudness and true-peak audio level&lt;/a&gt;&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The ITU-R BS.1770 specification describe an algorithm to measure
-loadness in LUFS (Loudness Units, referenced to Full Scale). But
-having a way to measure is not enough.  To get the same loudness
-across TV channels, one also need to decide which value to standardize
-on.  For European TV channels, this was done in the EBU Recommondaton
-R128, &quot;&lt;a href=&quot;https://tech.ebu.ch/docs/r/r128.pdf&quot;&gt;Loudness
-normalisation and permitted maximum level of audio signals&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, which
-specifies a recommended level of -23 LUFS.  In Norway, I have been
-told that NRK, TV2, MTG and SBS have decided among themselves to
-follow the R128 recommondation for playout from 2016-03-01.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;There are free software available to measure and adjust the loudness
-level using the LUFS.  In Debian, I am aware of a library named
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libebur128&quot;&gt;libebur128&lt;/a&gt;
-able to measure the loudness and since yesterday morning a new binary
-named &lt;a href=&quot;http://bs1770gain.sourceforge.net&quot;&gt;bs1770gain&lt;/a&gt;
-capable of both measuring and adjusting was uploaded and is waiting
-for NEW processing.  I plan to maintain the latter in Debian under the
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://qa.debian.org/developer.php?email=pkg-multimedia-maintainers%40lists.alioth.debian.org&quot;&gt;Debian
-multimedia&lt;/a&gt; umbrella.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The free software based TV channel I am involved in,
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.frikanalen.no/&quot;&gt;Frikanalen&lt;/a&gt;, plan to follow the
-R128 recommondation ourself as soon as we can adjust the software to
-do so, and the bs1770gain tool seem like a good fit for that part of
-the puzzle to measure loudness on new video uploaded to Frikanalen.
-Personally, I plan to use bs1770gain to adjust the loudness of videos
-I upload to Frikanalen on behalf of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/&quot;&gt;the
-NUUG member organisation&lt;/a&gt;.  The program seem to be able to measure
-the LUFS value of any media file handled by ffmpeg, but I&#39;ve only
-successfully adjusted the LUFS value of WAV files.  I suspect it
-should be able to adjust it for all the formats handled by ffmpeg.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>The GNU General Public License is not magic pixie dust</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_GNU_General_Public_License_is_not_magic_pixie_dust.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_GNU_General_Public_License_is_not_magic_pixie_dust.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2015 09:55:00 +0100</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;A blog post from my fellow Debian developer Paul Wise titled
+&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bonedaddy.net/pabs3/log/2015/11/27/sfc-supporter/&quot;&gt;The
+GPL is not magic pixie dust&lt;/a&gt;&quot; explain the importance of making sure
+the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html&quot;&gt;GPL&lt;/a&gt; is enforced.
+I quote the blog post from Paul in full here with his permission:&lt;p&gt;
+
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://sfconservancy.org/img/supporter-badge.png&quot; width=&quot;194&quot; height=&quot;90&quot; alt=&quot;Become a Software Freedom Conservancy Supporter!&quot; align=&quot;right&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+The GPL is not magic pixie dust. It does not work by itself.&lt;br/&gt;
+
+The first step is to choose a
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://copyleft.org/&quot;&gt;copyleft&lt;/a&gt; license for your
+code.&lt;br/&gt;
+
+The next step is, when someone fails to follow that copyleft license,
+&lt;b&gt;it must be enforced&lt;/b&gt;&lt;br/&gt;
+
+and its a simple fact of our modern society that such type of
+work&lt;br/&gt;
+
+is incredibly expensive to do and incredibly difficult to do.
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;-- &lt;a href=&quot;http://ebb.org/bkuhn/&quot;&gt;Bradley Kuhn&lt;/a&gt;, in
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://faif.us/&quot; title=&quot;Free as in Freedom&quot;&gt;FaiF&lt;/a&gt;
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://faif.us/cast/2015/nov/24/0x57/&quot;&gt;episode
+0x57&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;As the Debian Website
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/794116&quot;&gt;used&lt;/a&gt;
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/webwml/webwml/english/intro/free.wml?r1=1.24&amp;amp;r2=1.25&quot;&gt;to&lt;/a&gt;
+imply, public domain and permissively licensed software can lead to
+the production of more proprietary software as people discover useful
+software, extend it and or incorporate it into their hardware or
+software products.  Copyleft licenses such as the GNU GPL were created
+to close off this avenue to the production of proprietary software but
+such licenses are not enough.  With the ongoing adoption of Free
+Software by individuals and groups, inevitably the community&#39;s
+expectations of license compliance are violated, usually out of
+ignorance of the way Free Software works, but not always.  As Karen
+and Bradley explained in &lt;a href=&quot;http://faif.us/&quot; title=&quot;Free as in
+Freedom&quot;&gt;FaiF&lt;/a&gt;
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://faif.us/cast/2015/nov/24/0x57/&quot;&gt;episode 0x57&lt;/a&gt;,
+copyleft is nothing if no-one is willing and able to stand up in court
+to protect it.  The reality of today&#39;s world is that legal
+representation is expensive, difficult and time consuming.  With
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://gpl-violations.org/&quot;&gt;gpl-violations.org&lt;/a&gt; in hiatus
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://gpl-violations.org/news/20151027-homepage-recovers/&quot;&gt;until&lt;/a&gt;
+some time in 2016, the &lt;a href=&quot;https://sfconservancy.org/&quot;&gt;Software
+Freedom Conservancy&lt;/a&gt; (a tax-exempt charity) is the major defender
+of the Linux project, Debian and other groups against GPL violations.
+In March the SFC supported a
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/mar/05/vmware-lawsuit/&quot;&gt;lawsuit
+by Christoph Hellwig&lt;/a&gt; against VMware for refusing to
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://sfconservancy.org/linux-compliance/vmware-lawsuit-faq.html&quot;&gt;comply
+with the GPL&lt;/a&gt; in relation to their use of parts of the Linux
+kernel.  Since then two of their sponsors pulled corporate funding and
+conferences
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2015/nov/24/faif-carols-fundraiser/&quot;&gt;blocked
+or cancelled their talks&lt;/a&gt;.  As a result they have decided to rely
+less on corporate funding and more on the broad community of
+individuals who support Free Software and copyleft.  So the SFC has
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/nov/23/2015fundraiser/&quot;&gt;launched&lt;/a&gt;
+a &lt;a href=&quot;https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/&quot;&gt;campaign&lt;/a&gt; to create
+a community of folks who stand up for copyleft and the GPL by
+supporting their work on promoting and supporting copyleft and Free
+Software.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;If you support Free Software,
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2015/nov/26/like-what-I-do/&quot;&gt;like&lt;/a&gt;
+what the SFC do, agree with their
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://sfconservancy.org/linux-compliance/principles.html&quot;&gt;compliance
+principles&lt;/a&gt;, are happy about their
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/&quot;&gt;successes&lt;/a&gt; in 2015,
+work on a project that is an SFC
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://sfconservancy.org/members/current/&quot;&gt;member&lt;/a&gt; and or
+just want to stand up for copyleft, please join
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://identi.ca/cwebber/image/JQGPA4qbTyyp3-MY8QpvuA&quot;&gt;Christopher
+Allan Webber&lt;/a&gt;,
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2015/nov/24/faif-carols-fundraiser/&quot;&gt;Carol
+Smith&lt;/a&gt;,
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jonobacon.org/2015/11/25/supporting-software-freedom-conservancy/&quot;&gt;Jono
+Bacon&lt;/a&gt;, myself and
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://sfconservancy.org/sponsors/#supporters&quot;&gt;others&lt;/a&gt; in
+becoming a
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://sfconservancy.org/supporter/&quot;&gt;supporter&lt;/a&gt;.  For the
+next week your donation will be
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://sfconservancy.org/news/2015/nov/27/black-friday/&quot;&gt;matched&lt;/a&gt;
+by an anonymous donor.  Please also consider asking your employer to
+match your donation or become a sponsor of SFC.  Don&#39;t forget to
+spread the word about your support for SFC via email, your blog and or
+social media accounts.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I agree with Paul on this topic and just signed up as a Supporter
+of Software Freedom Conservancy myself.  Perhaps you should be a
+supporter too?&lt;/p&gt;

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