X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/0f12fbec2f563c12f65f65bd3a6f0a6fa10a397f..92433b45dfc4c0df34207c727c29e0a1a8a0f02f:/blog/index.rss diff --git a/blog/index.rss b/blog/index.rss index 74581edd05..9f77f0a71e 100644 --- a/blog/index.rss +++ b/blog/index.rss @@ -7,798 +7,816 @@ - Opphavsretts-status for «Empty Socks» fra 1927? - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Opphavsretts_status_for__Empty_Socks__fra_1927_.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Opphavsretts_status_for__Empty_Socks__fra_1927_.html - Fri, 12 Dec 2014 14:30:00 +0100 - <p>For noen dager siden -<a href="http://www.nb.no/Hva-skjer/Aktuelt/Nyheter/Tapt-filmskatt-fra-Disney-funnet-i-Nasjonalbiblioteket">annonserte -Nasjonalbiblioteket gladnyheten</a> om at de i sine arkiver hadde -funnet et nitratfilm-eksemplar av en 87 år gammel Disney-film ved navn -Empty Socks, en film som tidligere var antatt tapt og der det i følge -nyhetsmeldinger var kun ca. 25 sekunder bevart for ettertiden. -Nasjonalbiblioteket hadde 5 minutter og 30 sekunder av filmen i sitt -magasin. Dette er flott for bevaringen av verdens kulturarv. 5,5 -minutter mindre tapt enn vi trodde av får felles historie.</p> - -<p>Men hvordan kunne filmen gå tapt, når arkivlovene i USA krevde at -publiserte filmer på den tiden ble deponert i bibliotek? Forklaringen -har jeg fra Lawrence Lessig og boken -<a href="http://free-culture.cc/">Free Culture</a>, som jeg holder på -<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">å -oversette til norsk</a>:</p> - -<p><blockquote> -<p>Dette er delvis på grunn av loven. Opphavsrettseiere var tidlig i - amerikansk opphavsrettslov nødt til å deponere kopier av sine verk i - biblioteker. Disse kopiene skulle både sikre spredning av kunnskap, - og sikre at det fantes en kopi av verket tilgjengelig når vernetiden - utløp, slik at andre kunne få tilgang til og kopiere verket.</p> - -<p>Disse reglene gjaldt også for filmer. Men i 1915 gjorde - kongressbiblioteket et unntak for film. Filmer kunne bli - opphavsrettsbeskyttet så lenge det ble gjort slik deponering. Men - filmskaperne fikk så lov til å låne tilbake de deponerte filmene - - så lenge de ville uten noe kostnad. Bare i 1915 var det mer enn 5475 - filmer deponert og “lånt tilbake”. Dermed var det ikke noe eksemplar - i noe bibliotek når vernetiden til filmen utløp. Eksemplaret - eksisterer - hvis den finnes i det hele tatt - i arkivbiblioteket - til filmselskapet.</p> -</blockquote></p> - -<p>Nyheten gjorde meg nysgjerrig på om filmen kunne være falt i det -fri. En 87 år gammel film kunne jo tenkes å ha blitt en del av -allemannseiet, slik at vi alle kan bruke den til å bygge videre på vår -felles kultur uten å måtte be om tillatelse - slik Walt Disney gjorde -det i starten av sin karriere. Jeg spurte nasjonalbiblioteket, og de -sa nei. Hvordan kan det ha seg med en så gammel film? Jeg besteme -meg for å undersøke nærmere. En kan finne informasjon om den norske -vernetiden på -<a href="https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/1961-05-12-2">Lovdata</a> -og </a>Wikipedia</A>. Her er et relevant <a -href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opphavsrett#Vernetid">utsnitt fra -siden om opphavsrett i den norske Wikipedia</a>:</p> - -<p><blockquote> - Ifølge åndsverkloven §§ 40-41 utløper vernetiden for et åndsverk 70 - år etter utløpet av opphavspersonens dødsår. [...] For filmverk - gjelder særlige regler: Her kommer ikke alle mulige opphavspersoner - i betraktning, men kun hovedregissøren, manusforfatteren, - dialogforfatteren og komponisten av filmmusikken. Vernetiden - begynner å løpe etter utgangen av dødsåret til den lengstlevende av - disse. [...] Der opphavspersonen er ukjent, utløper opphavsretten 70 - år etter første kjente offentliggjørelse av verket. Det er kun de - økonomiske rettighetene som faller bort i det vernetiden er - utløpt. De ideelle rettighetene må fortsatt respekteres, noe som - blant annet innebærer at man plikter å navngi opphavspersonen ved - tilgjengeliggjøring. -</blockquote></p> - -<p><a href="http://www.disneyshorts.org/shorts.aspx?shortID=75">I følge -nettstedet X</a> er følgende personer gitt æren for denne -kortfilmen:</p> - -<dl> - -<dt>Regissør</dt> -<dd><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney">Walt Disney</a> (1901-12-05 – 1966-12-15) +70 år = 2037</dd> + In my hand, a pocket book edition of the Norwegian Free Culture book! + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/In_my_hand__a_pocket_book_edition_of_the_Norwegian_Free_Culture_book_.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/In_my_hand__a_pocket_book_edition_of_the_Norwegian_Free_Culture_book_.html + Wed, 19 Aug 2015 22:10:00 +0200 + <p>Today, finally, my first printed draft edition of the Norwegian +translation of Free Culture I have been working on for the last few +years arrived in the mail. I had to fake a cover to get the interior +printed, and the exterior of the book look awful, but that is +irrelevant at this point. I asked for a printed pocket book version +to get an idea about the font sizes and paper format as well as how +good the figures and images look in print, but also to test what the +pocket book version would look like. After receiving the 500 page +pocket book, it became obvious to me that that pocket book size is too +small for this book. I believe the book is too thick, and several +tables and figures do not look good in the size they get with that +small page sizes. I believe I will go with the 5.5x8.5 inch size +instead. A surprise discovery from the paper version was how bad the +URLs look in print. They are very hard to read in the colophon page. +The URLs are red in the PDF, but light gray on paper. I need to +change the color of links somehow to look better. But there is a +printed book in my hand, and it feels great. :)</p> + +<p>Now I only need to fix the cover, wrap up the postscript with the +store behind the book, and collect the last corrections from the proof +readers before the book is ready for proper printing. Cover artists +willing to work for free and create a Creative Commons licensed vector +file looking similar to the original is most welcome, as my skills as +a graphics designer are mostly missing.</p> + + + + + First paper version of the Norwegian Free Culture book heading my way + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_paper_version_of_the_Norwegian_Free_Culture_book_heading_my_way.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_paper_version_of_the_Norwegian_Free_Culture_book_heading_my_way.html + Sun, 9 Aug 2015 10:15:00 +0200 + <p>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 +<a href="http://www.docbook.org/">docbook</a> based version of the +<a href="http://free-culture.cc/">Free Culture</a> book by Lawrence +Lessig. I'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.</p> + +<p>Last night, I finally managed to create a PDF that no longer made +<a href="http://www.lulu.com/">Lulu.com</a> 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.</p> + +<p>Instead of using Lulu, I did consider printing the book using +<a href="http://www.createspace.com/">CreateSpace</a>, 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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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 +<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">github</a> +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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + + + + + Typesetting DocBook footnotes as endnotes with dblatex + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Typesetting_DocBook_footnotes_as_endnotes_with_dblatex.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Typesetting_DocBook_footnotes_as_endnotes_with_dblatex.html + Thu, 16 Jul 2015 18:10:00 +0200 + <p>I'm still working on the Norwegian version of the +<a href="http://free-culture.cc/">Free Culture book by Lawrence +Lessig</a>, 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 +<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/685063">feedback from the Debian +maintainer and the dblatex developer</a>, 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.</p> + +<p>First, decide where in the DocBook document to place the endnotes, +and add this text there:</p> -<dt>Animasjon -<dd><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ub_Iwerks">Ub Iwerks</a> (1901-03-24 – 1971-07-07) +70 år = 2042 -<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollin_Hamilton">Rollin "Ham" Hamilton</a> (1898-10-28 - 1951-06-03) +70 år = 2022 -<br><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harman_and_Ising">Hugh Harman</a> (1903-08-31 – 1982-11-25) +70 år = 2053</dd> +<pre> +&lt;?latex \theendnotes ?&gt; +</pre> -<dt>Kamera -<dd>Mike Marcus (?-?)</dd> +<p>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:</p> -</dl> +<pre> +&lt;?xml version='1.0'?&gt; +&lt;xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version='1.0'&gt; + &lt;xsl:param name="latex.begindocument"&gt; + &lt;xsl:text&gt; +\usepackage{endnotes} +\let\footnote=\endnote +\def\enoteheading{\mbox{}\par\vskip-\baselineskip } +\begin{document} + &lt;/xsl:text&gt; + &lt;/xsl:param&gt; +&lt;/xsl:stylesheet&gt; +</pre> -<p>Alle fødsels- og dødsdatoene er fra engelske Wikipedia. Det er -ikke oppgitt navn på manusforfatter, dialogforfatter og komponist, men -jeg mistenker at tegnerne vil få opphavsrettigheter på tegnefilmer her -i Norge, og tar derfor med disse. Kameramannen vil ikke få noen -rettigheter så vidt jeg forstår, og er derfor ignorert her.</p> +<p>Finally, load this xsl file when running dblatex, for example like +this:</p> -<p>Slik jeg forstår den norske opphavsretten vil dermed dette -filmverket bli allemannseie (også kalt å falle i det fri) i 2053, 126 -år etter at det ble laget. Hvis kun regissørens rettigheter er -relevante, vil det skje i 2037, 110 år etter at det ble utgitt. Etter -det vil enhver kunne dele det med alle de har lyst til, fremføre det -offentlig eller klippe og lime i det for å lage sin egen film basert -på det - helt uten å måtte spørre noen om lov.</p> +<pre> +dblatex --xsl-user=dblatex-endnotes.xsl freeculture.nb.xml +</pre> -<p>Måtte så Nasjonalbiblioteket spørre om lov før de kunne kopiere -sitt nitrat-eksemplar over på mer varig format? Nei, heldigvis. -Åndsverklovens § 16 sier at arkiv, bibliotek, museer og undervisnings- -og forskningsinstitusjoner har rett til å fremstille eksemplar av verk -for konserverings- og sikringsformål og andre særskilte formål.</p> +<p>The end result can be seen on github, where +<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">my +book project</a> is located.</p> - How to stay with sysvinit in Debian Jessie - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_stay_with_sysvinit_in_Debian_Jessie.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_stay_with_sysvinit_in_Debian_Jessie.html - Sat, 22 Nov 2014 01:00:00 +0100 - <p>By now, it is well known that Debian Jessie will not be using -sysvinit as its boot system by default. But how can one keep using -sysvinit in Jessie? It is fairly easy, and here are a few recipes, -courtesy of -<a href="http://www.vitavonni.de/blog/201410/2014102101-avoiding-systemd.html">Erich -Schubert</a> and -<a href="http://smcv.pseudorandom.co.uk/2014/still_universal/">Simon -McVittie</a>. - -<p>If you already are using Wheezy and want to upgrade to Jessie and -keep sysvinit as your boot system, create a file -<tt>/etc/apt/preferences.d/use-sysvinit</tt> with this content before -you upgrade:</p> - -<p><blockquote><pre> -Package: systemd-sysv -Pin: release o=Debian -Pin-Priority: -1 -</pre></blockquote><p> - -<p>This file content will tell apt and aptitude to not consider -installing systemd-sysv as part of any installation and upgrade -solution when resolving dependencies, and thus tell it to avoid -systemd as a default boot system. The end result should be that the -upgraded system keep using sysvinit.</p> - -<p>If you are installing Jessie for the first time, there is no way to -get sysvinit installed by default (debootstrap used by -debian-installer have no option for this), but one can tell the -installer to switch to sysvinit before the first boot. Either by -using a kernel argument to the installer, or by adding a line to the -preseed file used. First, the kernel command line argument: - -<p><blockquote><pre> -preseed/late_command="in-target apt-get install --purge -y sysvinit-core" -</pre></blockquote><p> - -<p>Next, the line to use in a preseed file:</p> - -<p><blockquote><pre> -d-i preseed/late_command string in-target apt-get install -y sysvinit-core -</pre></blockquote><p> - -<p>One can of course also do this after the first boot by installing -the sysvinit-core package.</p> - -<p>I recommend only using sysvinit if you really need it, as the -sysvinit boot sequence in Debian have several hardware specific bugs -on Linux caused by the fact that it is unpredictable when hardware -devices show up during boot. But on the other hand, the new default -boot system still have a few rough edges I hope will be fixed before -Jessie is released.</p> - -<p>Update 2014-11-26: Inspired by -<ahref="https://www.mirbsd.org/permalinks/wlog-10-tg_e20141125-tg.htm#e20141125-tg_wlog-10-tg">a -blog post by Torsten Glaser</a>, added --purge to the preseed -line.</p> + Mimes brønn, norsk utgave av Alaveteli / WhatDoTheyKnow, endelig lansert + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Mimes_br_nn__norsk_utgave_av_Alaveteli___WhatDoTheyKnow__endelig_lansert.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Mimes_br_nn__norsk_utgave_av_Alaveteli___WhatDoTheyKnow__endelig_lansert.html + Thu, 9 Jul 2015 11:40:00 +0200 + <p>I går fikk vi endelig lansert en norsk version av mySocietys +<a href="https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/">WhatDoTheyKnow</a>. +Tjenesten heter Mimes brønn, og ble +<a href="http://www.nuug.no/news/NUUG_lanserer_innsynstjenesten_Mimes_Br_nn.shtml">annonsert +av NUUG</a> 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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>Hvis du lurer på hva i alle dager en slik tjenestes kan brukes til, +anbefaler jeg deg å se +<a href="http://beta.frikanalen.no/video/625321">TED-foredraget til +Heather Brook</a> om hvordan hun brukte WhatDoTheyKnow til å lære +hvordan offentlige midler ble misbrukt. Det er en inspirerende +historie.</p> - Hvordan vurderer regjeringen H.264-patentutfordringen? - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hvordan_vurderer_regjeringen_H_264_patentutfordringen_.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hvordan_vurderer_regjeringen_H_264_patentutfordringen_.html - Sun, 16 Nov 2014 10:30:00 +0100 - <p>For en stund tilbake spurte jeg Fornyingsdepartementet om hvilke -juridiske vurderinger rundt patentproblemstillingen som var gjort da -H.264 ble tatt inn i <a href="http://standard.difi.no/">statens -referansekatalog over standarder</a>. Stig Hornnes i FAD tipset meg -om følgende som står i oppsumeringen til høringen om -referansekatalogen versjon 2.0, som jeg siden ved hjelp av en -innsynsforespørsel fikk tak i -<a href="http://wiki.nuug.no/uttalelser/200901-standardkatalog-v2?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=kongelig-resolusjon.pdf">PDF-utgaven av</a> -datert 2009-06-03 (saksnummer 200803291, saksbehandler Henrik -Linnestad).</p> - -<p>Der står det følgende om problemstillingen:</p> + MPEG LA on "Internet Broadcast AVC Video" licensing and non-private use + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/MPEG_LA_on__Internet_Broadcast_AVC_Video__licensing_and_non_private_use.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/MPEG_LA_on__Internet_Broadcast_AVC_Video__licensing_and_non_private_use.html + Tue, 7 Jul 2015 09:50:00 +0200 + <p>After asking the Norwegian Broadcasting Company (NRK) +<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hva_gj_r_at_NRK_kan_distribuere_H_264_video_uten_patentavtale_med_MPEG_LA_.html">why +they can broadcast and stream H.264 video without an agreement with +the MPEG LA</a>, 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.</p> + +<p>I started by asking for more information about the various +licensing classes and what exactly is covered by the "Internet +Broadcast AVC Video" class that NRK pointed me at to explain why NRK +did not need a license for streaming H.264 video: <p><blockquote> -<strong>4.4 Patentproblematikk</strong> - -<p>NUUG og Opera ser det som særlig viktig at forslagene knyttet til -lyd og video baserer seg på de royalty-frie standardene Vorbis, Theora -og FLAC.</p> - -<p>Kommentarene relaterer seg til at enkelte standarder er åpne, men -inneholder tekniske prosedyrer som det i USA (og noen andre land som -Japan) er gitt patentrettigheter til. I vårt tilfelle berører dette -spesielt standardene Mp3 og H.264, selv om Politidirektoratet peker på -at det muligens kan være tilsvarende problematikk også for Theora og -Vorbis. Dette medfører at det i USA kan kreves royalties for bruk av -tekniske løsninger knyttet til standardene, et krav som også -håndheves. Patenter kan imidlertid bare hevdes i de landene hvor -patentet er gitt, så amerikanske patenter gjelder ikke andre steder -enn USA.</p> - -<p>Spesielt for utvikling av fri programvare er patenter -problematisk. GPL, en "grunnleggende" lisens for distribusjon av fri -programvare, avviser at programvare kan distribueres under denne -lisensen hvis det inneholder referanser til patenterte rutiner som -utløser krav om royalties. Det er imidlertid uproblematisk å -distribuere fri programvareløsninger under GPL som benytter de -aktuelle standardene innen eller mellom land som ikke anerkjenner -patentene. Derfor finner vi også flere implementeringer av Mp3 og -H.264 som er fri programvare, lisensiert under GPL.</p> - -<p>I Norge og EU er patentlovgivningen langt mer restriktiv enn i USA, -men det er også her mulig å få patentert metoder for løsning av et -problem som relaterer seg til databehandling. Det er AIF bekjent ikke -relevante patenter i EU eller Norge hva gjelder H.264 og Mp3, men -muligheten for at det finnes patenter uten at det er gjort krav om -royalties eller at det senere vil gis slike patenter kan ikke helt -avvises.</p> - -<p>AIF mener det er et behov for å gi offentlige virksomheter mulighet -til å benytte antatt royaltyfrie åpne standarder som et likeverdig -alternativ eller i tillegg til de markedsledende åpne standardene.</p> +<p>According to +<a href="http://www.mpegla.com/Lists/MPEG%20LA%20News%20List/Attachments/226/n-10-02-02.pdf">a +MPEG LA press release dated 2010-02-02</a>, there is no charge when +using MPEG AVC/H.264 according to the terms of "Internet Broadcast AVC +Video". I am trying to understand exactly what the terms of "Internet +Broadcast AVC Video" is, and wondered if you could help me. What +exactly is covered by these terms, and what is not?</p> + +<p>The only source of more information I have been able to find is a +PDF named +<a href="http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/avc/Documents/avcweb.pdf">AVC +Patent Portfolio License Briefing</a>, which states this about the +fees:</p> + +<ul> + <li>Where End User pays for AVC Video + <ul> + <li>Subscription (not limited by title) – 100,000 or fewer + subscribers/yr = no royalty; &gt; 100,000 to 250,000 subscribers/yr = + $25,000; &gt;250,000 to 500,000 subscribers/yr = $50,000; &gt;500,000 to + 1M subscribers/yr = $75,000; &gt;1M subscribers/yr = $100,000</li> + + <li>Title-by-Title - 12 minutes or less = no royalty; &gt;12 minutes in + length = lower of (a) 2% or (b) $0.02 per title</li> + </ul></li> + + <li>Where remuneration is from other sources + <ul> + <li>Free Television - (a) one-time $2,500 per transmission encoder or + (b) annual fee starting at $2,500 for &gt; 100,000 HH rising to + maximum $10,000 for &gt;1,000,000 HH</li> + + <li>Internet Broadcast AVC Video (not title-by-title, not subscription) + – no royalty for life of the AVC Patent Portfolio License</li> + </ul></li> +</ul> + +<p>Am I correct in assuming that the four categories listed is the +categories used when selecting licensing terms, and that "Internet +Broadcast AVC Video" 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 "title-by-title" and "Free Television" in +the license terms for AVC/H.264?</p> + +<p>Will a web service providing H.264 encoded video content in a +"video on demand" 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 "Internet +Broadcast AVC Video", 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?</p> + +<p>Note, this request and all answers will be published on the +Internet.</p> </blockquote></p> -<p>Det ser dermed ikke ut til at de har vurdert patentspørsmålet i -sammenheng med opphavsrettsvilkår slik de er formulert for f.eks. -Apple Final Cut Pro, Adobe Premiere Pro, Avid og Sorenson-verktøyene, -der det kreves brukstillatelse for patenter som ikke er gyldige i -Norge for å bruke disse verktøyene til annet en personlig og ikke -kommersiell aktivitet når det gjelder H.264-video. Jeg må nok lete -videre etter svar på det spørsmålet.</p> - - - - - A Debian package for SMTP via Tor (aka SMTorP) using exim4 - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_Debian_package_for_SMTP_via_Tor__aka_SMTorP__using_exim4.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_Debian_package_for_SMTP_via_Tor__aka_SMTorP__using_exim4.html - Mon, 10 Nov 2014 13:40:00 +0100 - <p>The right to communicate with your friends and family in private, -without anyone snooping, is a right every citicen have in a liberal -democracy. But this right is under serious attack these days.</p> - -<p>A while back it occurred to me that one way to make the dragnet -surveillance conducted by NSA, GCHQ, FRA and others (and confirmed by -the whisleblower Snowden) more expensive for Internet email, -is to deliver all email using SMTP via Tor. Such SMTP option would be -a nice addition to the FreedomBox project if we could send email -between FreedomBox machines without leaking metadata about the emails -to the people peeking on the wire. I -<a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/freedombox-discuss/2014-October/006493.html">proposed -this on the FreedomBox project mailing list in October</a> and got a -lot of useful feedback and suggestions. It also became obvious to me -that this was not a novel idea, as the same idea was tested and -documented by Johannes Berg as early as 2006, and both -<a href="https://github.com/pagekite/Mailpile/wiki/SMTorP">the -Mailpile</a> and <a href="http://dee.su/cables">the Cables</a> systems -propose a similar method / protocol to pass emails between users.</p> - -<p>To implement such system one need to set up a Tor hidden service -providing the SMTP protocol on port 25, and use email addresses -looking like username@hidden-service-name.onion. With such addresses -the connections to port 25 on hidden-service-name.onion using Tor will -go to the correct SMTP server. To do this, one need to configure the -Tor daemon to provide the hidden service and the mail server to accept -emails for this .onion domain. To learn more about Exim configuration -in Debian and test the design provided by Johannes Berg in his FAQ, I -set out yesterday to create a Debian package for making it trivial to -set up such SMTP over Tor service based on Debian. Getting it to work -were fairly easy, and -<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/exim4-smtorp">the -source code for the Debian package</a> is available from github. I -plan to move it into Debian if further testing prove this to be a -useful approach.</p> - -<p>If you want to test this, set up a blank Debian machine without any -mail system installed (or run <tt>apt-get purge exim4-config</tt> to -get rid of exim4). Install tor, clone the git repository mentioned -above, build the deb and install it on the machine. Next, run -<tt>/usr/lib/exim4-smtorp/setup-exim-hidden-service</tt> and follow -the instructions to get the service up and running. Restart tor and -exim when it is done, and test mail delivery using swaks like -this:</p> +<p>The answer came quickly from Benjamin J. Myers, Licensing Associate +with the MPEG LA:</p> -<p><blockquote><pre> -torsocks swaks --server dutlqrrmjhtfa3vp.onion \ - --to fbx@dutlqrrmjhtfa3vp.onion -</pre></blockquote></p> - -<p>This will test the SMTP delivery using tor. Replace the email -address with your own address to test your server. :)</p> - -<p>The setup procedure is still to complex, and I hope it can be made -easier and more automatic. Especially the tor setup need more work. -Also, the package include a tor-smtp tool written in C, but its task -should probably be rewritten in some script language to make the deb -architecture independent. It would probably also make the code easier -to review. The tor-smtp tool currently need to listen on a socket for -exim to talk to it and is started using xinetd. It would be better if -no daemon and no socket is needed. I suspect it is possible to get -exim to run a command line tool for delivery instead of talking to a -socket, and hope to figure out how in a future version of this -system.</p> - -<p>Until I wipe my test machine, I can be reached using the -<tt>fbx@dutlqrrmjhtfa3vp.onion</tt> mail address, deliverable over -SMTorP. :)</p> - - - - - First Jessie based Debian Edu released (alpha0) - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_Jessie_based_Debian_Edu_released__alpha0_.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_Jessie_based_Debian_Edu_released__alpha0_.html - Mon, 27 Oct 2014 20:40:00 +0100 - <p>I am happy to report that I on behalf of the Debian Edu team just -sent out -<a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2014/10/msg00000.html">this -announcement</a>:</p> +<p><blockquote> +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>Finally, in the case where AVC Video is distributed for free +through an "over-the-air, satellite and/or cable transmission", then +such content would constitute Free Television AVC Video and would be +subject to the applicable royalties.</p> + +<p>For your reference, I have attached +<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-07-07-mpegla.pdf">a +.pdf copy of the AVC License</a>. 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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> +</blockquote></p> -<pre> -The Debian Edu Team is pleased to announce the release of Debian Edu -Jessie 8.0+edu0~alpha0 - -Debian Edu is a complete operating system for schools. Through its -various installation profiles you can install servers, workstations -and laptops which will work together on the school network. With -Debian Edu, the teachers themselves or their technical support can -roll out a complete multi-user multi-machine study environment within -hours or a few days. Debian Edu comes with hundreds of applications -pre-installed, but you can always add more packages from Debian. - -For those who want to give Debian Edu Jessie a try, download and -installation instructions are available, including detailed -instructions in the manual[1] explaining the first steps, such as -setting up a network or adding users. Please note that the password -for the user your prompted for during installation must have a length -of at least 5 characters! - - [1] &lt;URL: <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Jessie">https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Jessie</a> &gt; - -Would you like to give your school's computer a longer life? Are you -tired of sneaker administration, running from computer to computer -reinstalling the operating system? Would you like to administrate all -the computers in your school using only a couple of hours every week? -Check out Debian Edu Jessie! - -Skolelinux is used by at least two hundred schools all over the world, -mostly in Germany and Norway. - -About Debian Edu and Skolelinux -=============================== - -Debian Edu, also known as Skolelinux[2], is a Linux distribution based -on Debian providing an out-of-the box environment of a completely -configured school network. Immediately after installation a school -server running all services needed for a school network is set up just -waiting for users and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable -Web-UI. A netbooting environment is prepared using PXE, so after -initial installation of the main server from CD or USB stick all other -machines can be installed via the network. The provided school server -provides LDAP database and Kerberos authentication service, -centralized home directories, DHCP server, web proxy and many other -services. The desktop contains more than 60 educational software -packages[3] and more are available from the Debian archive, and -schools can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE, Xfce and MATE desktop -environment. - - [2] &lt;URL: <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">http://www.skolelinux.org/</a> &gt; - [3] &lt;URL: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Educational_applications_included_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux__the_screenshot_collection____.html">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Educational_applications_included_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux__the_screenshot_collection____.html</a> &gt; - -Full release notes and manual -============================= - -Below the download URLs there is a list of some of the new features -and bugfixes of Debian Edu 8.0+edu0~alpha0 Codename Jessie. The full -list is part of the manual. (See the feature list in the manual[4] for -the English version.) For some languages manual translations are -available, see the manual translation overview[5]. - - [4] &lt;URL: <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Jessie/Features">https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Jessie/Features</a> &gt; - [5] &lt;URL: <a href="http://maintainer.skolelinux.org/debian-edu-doc/">http://maintainer.skolelinux.org/debian-edu-doc/</a> &gt; - -Where to get it ---------------- - -To download the multiarch netinstall CD release (624 MiB) you can use - - * <a href="ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-8.0+edu0~alpha0-CD.iso">ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-8.0+edu0~alpha0-CD.iso</a> - * <a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-8.0+edu0~alpha0-CD.iso">http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-8.0+edu0~alpha0-CD.iso</a> - * rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-8.0+edu0~alpha0-CD.iso . - -The SHA1SUM of this image is: 361188818e036ce67280a572f757de82ebfeb095 - -New features for Debian Edu 8.0+edu0~alpha0 Codename Jessie released 2014-10-27 -=============================================================================== - - -Installation changes --------------------- - - * PXE installation now installs firmware automatically for the hardware present. - -Software updates ----------------- - -Everything which is new in Debian Jessie 8.0, eg: - - * Linux kernel 3.16.x - * Desktop environments KDE "Plasma" 4.11.12, GNOME 3.14, Xfce 4.10, - LXDE 0.5.6 and MATE 1.8 (KDE "Plasma" is installed by default; to - choose one of the others see manual.) - * the browsers Iceweasel 31 ESR and Chromium 38 - * !LibreOffice 4.3.3 - * GOsa 2.7.4 - * LTSP 5.5.4 - * CUPS print system 1.7.5 - * new boot framework: systemd - * Educational toolbox GCompris 14.07 - * Music creator Rosegarden 14.02 - * Image editor Gimp 2.8.14 - * Virtual stargazer Stellarium 0.13.0 - * golearn 0.9 - * tuxpaint 0.9.22 - * New version of debian-installer from Debian Jessie. - * Debian Jessie includes about 42000 packages available for - installation. - * More information about Debian Jessie 8.0 is provided in the release - notes[6] and the installation manual[7]. - - [6] &lt;URL: <a href="http://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/releasenotes">http://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/releasenotes</a> &gt; - [7] &lt;URL: <a href="http://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/installmanual">http://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/installmanual</a> &gt; - -Fixed bugs ----------- - - * Inserting incorrect DNS information in Gosa will no longer break - DNS completely, but instead stop DNS updates until the incorrect - information is corrected (Debian bug #710362) - * and many others. - -Documentation and translation updates -------------------------------------- - - * The Debian Edu Jessie Manual is fully translated to German, French, - Italian, Danish and Dutch. Partly translated versions exist for - Norwegian Bokmal and Spanish. - -Other changes -------------- - - * Due to new Squid settings, powering off or rebooting the main - server takes more time. - * To manage printers localhost:631 has to be used, currently www:631 - doesn't work. - -Regressions / known problems ----------------------------- - - * Installing LTSP chroot fails with a bug related to eatmydata about - exim4-config failing to run its postinst (see Debian bug #765694 - and Debian bug #762103). - * Munin collection is not properly configured on clients (Debian bug - #764594). The fix is available in a newer version of munin-node. - * PXE setup for Main Server and Thin Client Server setup does not - work when installing on a machine without direct Internet access. - Will be fixed when Debian bug #766960 is fixed in Jessie. +<p>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:</p> -See the status page[8] for the complete list. +<p><blockquote> +<p>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: + +<p><blockquote> + 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 ("AVC video") 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. +</blockquote></p> - [8] &lt;URL: <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Status/Jessie">https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Status/Jessie</a> &gt; +<p>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?</p> +</blockquote></p> -How to report bugs ------------------- +<p>According to the answer, MPEG LA believe those using such tools for +non-personal or commercial use need a license with them:</p> -&lt;URL: <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs">http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs</a> &gt; +<p><blockquote> -About Debian -============ +<p>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:</p> + +<p>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 ("AVC VIDEO") 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</p> + +<p>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's AVC +Product as their own branded AVC Product).</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>Finally, I note that our AVC License provides worldwide coverage in +countries that have AVC Patent Portfolio Patents, including +Norway.</p> + +<p>I hope this clarification is helpful. If I may be of any further +assistance, just let me know.</p> +</blockquote></p> -The Debian Project was founded in 1993 by Ian Murdock to be a truly -free community project. Since then the project has grown to be one of -the largest and most influential open source projects. Thousands of -volunteers from all over the world work together to create and -maintain Debian software. Available in 70 languages, and supporting a -huge range of computer types, Debian calls itself the universal -operating system. +<p>The mentioning of Norwegian patents made me a bit confused, so I +asked for more information:</p> -Contact Information -For further information, please visit the Debian web pages[9] or send -mail to press@debian.org. +<p><blockquote> - [9] &lt;URL: <a href="http://www.debian.org/">http://www.debian.org/</a> &gt; -</pre> +<p>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 &lt;URL: +<a href="http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/AVC/Pages/PatentList.aspx">http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/AVC/Pages/PatentList.aspx</a> +&gt; incorrectly, as I believed the "NO" 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?</p> + +</blockquote></p> + +<p>Again, the quick answer explained how to read the list of patents +in that list:</p> + +<p><blockquote> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> +</blockquote></p> + +<p>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?</p> - I spent last weekend recording MakerCon Nordic - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/I_spent_last_weekend_recording_MakerCon_Nordic.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/I_spent_last_weekend_recording_MakerCon_Nordic.html - Thu, 23 Oct 2014 23:00:00 +0200 - <p>I spent last weekend at <a href="http://www.makercon.no/">Makercon -Nordic</a>, a great conference and workshop for makers in Norway and -the surrounding countries. I had volunteered on behalf of the -Norwegian Unix Users Group (NUUG) to video record the talks, and we -had a great and exhausting time recording the entire day, two days in -a row. There were only two of us, Hans-Petter and me, and we used the -regular video equipment for NUUG, with a -<a href="http://dvswitch.alioth.debian.org/wiki/">dvswitch</a>, a -camera and a VGA to DV convert box, and mixed video and slides -live.</p> - -<p>Hans-Petter did the post-processing, consisting of uploading the -around 180 GiB of raw video to Youtube, and the result is -<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/MakerConNordic/">now becoming -public</a> on the MakerConNordic account. The videos have the license -NUUG always use on our recordings, which is -<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/no/">Creative -Commons Navngivelse-Del på samme vilkår 3.0 Norge</a>. Many great -talks available. Check it out! :)</p> + New laptop - some more clues and ideas based on feedback + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_laptop___some_more_clues_and_ideas_based_on_feedback.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_laptop___some_more_clues_and_ideas_based_on_feedback.html + Sun, 5 Jul 2015 21:40:00 +0200 + <p>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 <a href="http://www.francecrans.com/">FrancEcrans</a>, but it +might present a language barrier as I do not understand French.</p> + +<p>One tip I got was to use the +<a href="https://skinflint.co.uk/?cat=nb">Skinflint</a> 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. + +<p>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 +<a href="http://www.corsac.net/X250/">Corsac.net</a>. 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'm also told that the X250 lack leds for caps lock, disk +activity and battery status, which is very convenient on my X230. I'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.</p> + +<p>I have also gotten a few vendor proposals, one was +<a href="http://pro-star.com">Pro-Star</a>, another was +<a href="http://shop.gluglug.org.uk/product/libreboot-x200/">Libreboot</a>. +The latter look very attractive to me.</p> + +<p>Again, thank you all for the very useful feedback. It help a lot +as I keep looking for a replacement.</p> + +<p>Update 2015-07-06: I was recommended to check out the +<a href="">lapstore.de</a> web shop for used laptops. They got several +different +<a href="http://www.lapstore.de/f.php/shop/lapstore/f/411/lang/x/kw/Lenovo_ThinkPad_X_Serie/">old +thinkpad X models</a>, and provide one year warranty.</p> - listadmin, the quick way to moderate mailman lists - nice free software - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/listadmin__the_quick_way_to_moderate_mailman_lists___nice_free_software.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/listadmin__the_quick_way_to_moderate_mailman_lists___nice_free_software.html - Wed, 22 Oct 2014 20:00:00 +0200 - <p>If you ever had to moderate a mailman list, like the ones on -alioth.debian.org, you know the web interface is fairly slow to -operate. First you visit one web page, enter the moderation password -and get a new page shown with a list of all the messages to moderate -and various options for each email address. This take a while for -every list you moderate, and you need to do it regularly to do a good -job as a list moderator. But there is a quick alternative, -<a href="http://heim.ifi.uio.no/kjetilho/hacks/#listadmin">the -listadmin program</a>. It allow you to check lists for new messages -to moderate in a fraction of a second. Here is a test run on two -lists I recently took over:</p> - -<p><blockquote><pre> -% time listadmin xiph -fetching data for pkg-xiph-commits@lists.alioth.debian.org ... nothing in queue -fetching data for pkg-xiph-maint@lists.alioth.debian.org ... nothing in queue - -real 0m1.709s -user 0m0.232s -sys 0m0.012s -% -</pre></blockquote></p> - -<p>In 1.7 seconds I had checked two mailing lists and confirmed that -there are no message in the moderation queue. Every morning I -currently moderate 68 mailman lists, and it normally take around two -minutes. When I took over the two pkg-xiph lists above a few days -ago, there were 400 emails waiting in the moderator queue. It took me -less than 15 minutes to process them all using the listadmin -program.</p> - -<p>If you install -<a href="https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/listadmin">the listadmin -package</a> from Debian and create a file <tt>~/.listadmin.ini</tt> -with content like this, the moderation task is a breeze:</p> - -<p><blockquote><pre> -username username@example.org -spamlevel 23 -default discard -discard_if_reason "Posting restricted to members only. Remove us from your mail list." - -password secret -adminurl https://{domain}/mailman/admindb/{list} -mailman-list@lists.example.com - -password hidden -other-list@otherserver.example.org -</pre></blockquote></p> - -<p>There are other options to set as well. Check the manual page to -learn the details.</p> - -<p>If you are forced to moderate lists on a mailman installation where -the SSL certificate is self signed or not properly signed by a -generally accepted signing authority, you can set a environment -variable when calling listadmin to disable SSL verification:</p> - -<p><blockquote><pre> -PERL_LWP_SSL_VERIFY_HOSTNAME=0 listadmin -</pre></blockquote></p> - -<p>If you want to moderate a subset of the lists you take care of, you -can provide an argument to the listadmin script like I do in the -initial screen dump (the xiph argument). Using an argument, only -lists matching the argument string will be processed. This make it -quick to accept messages if you notice the moderation request in your -email.</p> - -<p>Without the listadmin program, I would never be the moderator of 68 -mailing lists, as I simply do not have time to spend on that if the -process was any slower. The listadmin program have saved me hours of -time I could spend elsewhere over the years. It truly is nice free -software.</p> - -<p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my -activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address -<b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&label=PetterReinholdtsenBlog">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p> - -<p>Update 2014-10-27: Added missing 'username' statement in -configuration example. Also, I've been told that the -PERL_LWP_SSL_VERIFY_HOSTNAME=0 setting do not work for everyone. Not -sure why.</p> + Time to find a new laptop, as the old one is broken after only two years + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Time_to_find_a_new_laptop__as_the_old_one_is_broken_after_only_two_years.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Time_to_find_a_new_laptop__as_the_old_one_is_broken_after_only_two_years.html + Fri, 3 Jul 2015 07:10:00 +0200 + <p>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.</p> + +<p>My requirements have not really changed since I bought it, and is +still as +<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Thank_you_Thinkpad_X41__for_your_long_and_trustworthy_service.html">I +described them in 2013</a>. The last time I bought a laptop, I had +good help from +<a href="http://www.prisjakt.no/category.php?k=353">prisjakt.no</a> +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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>Update 2015-07-23: I got a suggestion to check out the FSF +<a href="http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/respects-your-freedom">list +of endorsed hardware</a>, which is useful background information.</p> - Debian Jessie, PXE and automatic firmware installation - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Jessie__PXE_and_automatic_firmware_installation.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Jessie__PXE_and_automatic_firmware_installation.html - Fri, 17 Oct 2014 14:10:00 +0200 - <p>When PXE installing laptops with Debian, I often run into the -problem that the WiFi card require some firmware to work properly. -And it has been a pain to fix this using preseeding in Debian. -Normally something more is needed. But thanks to -<a href="https://packages.qa.debian.org/i/isenkram.html">my isenkram -package</a> and its recent tasksel extension, it has now become easy -to do this using simple preseeding.</p> - -<p>The isenkram-cli package provide tasksel tasks which will install -firmware for the hardware found in the machine (actually, requested by -the kernel modules for the hardware). (It can also install user space -programs supporting the hardware detected, but that is not the focus -of this story.)</p> - -<p>To get this working in the default installation, two preeseding -values are needed. First, the isenkram-cli package must be installed -into the target chroot (aka the hard drive) before tasksel is executed -in the pkgsel step of the debian-installer system. This is done by -preseeding the base-installer/includes debconf value to include the -isenkram-cli package. The package name is next passed to debootstrap -for installation. With the isenkram-cli package in place, tasksel -will automatically use the isenkram tasks to detect hardware specific -packages for the machine being installed and install them, because -isenkram-cli contain tasksel tasks.</p> - -<p>Second, one need to enable the non-free APT repository, because -most firmware unfortunately is non-free. This is done by preseeding -the apt-mirror-setup step. This is unfortunate, but for a lot of -hardware it is the only option in Debian.</p> - -<p>The end result is two lines needed in your preseeding file to get -firmware installed automatically by the installer:</p> - -<p><blockquote><pre> -base-installer base-installer/includes string isenkram-cli -apt-mirror-setup apt-setup/non-free boolean true -</pre></blockquote></p> - -<p>The current version of isenkram-cli in testing/jessie will install -both firmware and user space packages when using this method. It also -do not work well, so use version 0.15 or later. Installing both -firmware and user space packages might give you a bit more than you -want, so I decided to split the tasksel task in two, one for firmware -and one for user space programs. The firmware task is enabled by -default, while the one for user space programs is not. This split is -implemented in the package currently in unstable.</p> - -<p>If you decide to give this a go, please let me know (via email) how -this recipe work for you. :)</p> - -<p>So, I bet you are wondering, how can this work. First and -foremost, it work because tasksel is modular, and driven by whatever -files it find in /usr/lib/tasksel/ and /usr/share/tasksel/. So the -isenkram-cli package place two files for tasksel to find. First there -is the task description file (/usr/share/tasksel/descs/isenkram.desc):</p> - -<p><blockquote><pre> -Task: isenkram-packages -Section: hardware -Description: Hardware specific packages (autodetected by isenkram) - Based on the detected hardware various hardware specific packages are - proposed. -Test-new-install: show show -Relevance: 8 -Packages: for-current-hardware - -Task: isenkram-firmware -Section: hardware -Description: Hardware specific firmware packages (autodetected by isenkram) - Based on the detected hardware various hardware specific firmware - packages are proposed. -Test-new-install: mark show -Relevance: 8 -Packages: for-current-hardware-firmware -</pre></blockquote></p> - -<p>The key parts are Test-new-install which indicate how the task -should be handled and the Packages line referencing to a script in -/usr/lib/tasksel/packages/. The scripts use other scripts to get a -list of packages to install. The for-current-hardware-firmware script -look like this to list relevant firmware for the machine: - -<p><blockquote><pre> -#!/bin/sh -# -PATH=/usr/sbin:$PATH -export PATH -isenkram-autoinstall-firmware -l -</pre></blockquote></p> - -<p>With those two pieces in place, the firmware is installed by -tasksel during the normal d-i run. :)</p> - -<p>If you want to test what tasksel will install when isenkram-cli is -installed, run <tt>DEBIAN_PRIORITY=critical tasksel --test ---new-install</tt> to get the list of packages that tasksel would -install.</p> - -<p><a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/">Debian Edu</a> will be -pilots in testing this feature, as isenkram is used there now to -install firmware, replacing the earlier scripts.</p> + MakerCon Nordic videos now available on Frikanalen + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/MakerCon_Nordic_videos_now_available_on_Frikanalen.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/MakerCon_Nordic_videos_now_available_on_Frikanalen.html + Thu, 2 Jul 2015 14:10:00 +0200 + <p>Last oktober I was involved on behalf of +<a href="http://www.nuug.no/">NUUG</a> with recording the talks at +<a href="http://www.makercon.no/">MakerCon Nordic</a>, a conference for +the Maker movement. Since then it has been the plan to publish the +recordings on <a href="http://www.frikanalen.no/">Frikanalen</a>, 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 +<a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/MakerConNordic/">available on +Youtube too</a>.</p> + +<p>This is the list of talks available at the moment. Visit the +<a href="http://beta.frikanalen.no/video/?q=makercon">Frikanalen video +pages</a> to view them.</p> + +<ul> + + <li>Evolutionary algorithms as a design tool - from art + to robotics (Kyrre Glette)</li> + + <li>Make and break (Hans Gerhard Meier)</li> + + <li>Making a one year school course for young makers + (Olav Helland)</li> + + <li>Innovation Inspiration - IPR Databases as a Source of + Inspiration (Hege Langlo)</li> + + <li>Making a toy for makers (Erik Torstensson)</li> + + <li>How to make 3D printer electronics (Elias Bakken)</li> + + <li>Hovering Clouds: Looking at online tool offerings for Product + Design and 3D Printing (William Kempton)</li> + + <li>Travelling maker stories (Øyvind Nydal Dahl)</li> + + <li>Making the first Maker Faire in Sweden (Nils Olander)</li> + + <li>Breaking the mold: Printing 1000’s of parts (Espen Sivertsen)</li> + + <li>Ultimaker — and open source 3D printing (Erik de Bruijn)</li> + + <li>Autodesk’s 3D Printing Platform: Sparking innovation (Hilde + Sevens)</li> + + <li>How Making is Changing the World – and How You Can Too! + (Jennifer Turliuk)</li> + + <li>Open-Source Adventuring: OpenROV, OpenExplorer and the Future of + Connected Exploration (David Lang)</li> + + <li>Making in Norway (Haakon Karlsen Jr., Graham Hayward and Jens + Dyvik)</li> + + <li>The Impact of the Maker Movement (Mike Senese)</li> + +</ul> + +<p>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 +<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Measuring_and_adjusting_the_loudness_of_a_TV_channel_using_bs1770gain.html">package +bs1770gain for Debian</a>. Now this is in place and it became a lot +easier to publish NUUG videos on Frikanalen.</p> - Ubuntu used to show the bread prizes at ICA Storo - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Ubuntu_used_to_show_the_bread_prizes_at_ICA_Storo.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Ubuntu_used_to_show_the_bread_prizes_at_ICA_Storo.html - Sat, 4 Oct 2014 15:20:00 +0200 - <p>Today I came across an unexpected Ubuntu boot screen. Above the -bread shelf on the ICA shop at Storo in Oslo, the grub menu of Ubuntu -with Linux kernel 3.2.0-23 (ie probably version 12.04 LTS) was stuck -on a screen normally showing the bread types and prizes:</p> - -<p align="center"><img width="70%" src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2014-10-04-ubuntu-ica-storo-crop.jpeg"></p> - -<p>If it had booted as it was supposed to, I would never had known -about this hidden Linux installation. It is interesting what -<a href="http://revealingerrors.com/">errors can reveal</a>.</p> + Hvem fører Medietilsynet tilsyn med? + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hvem_f_rer_Medietilsynet_tilsyn_med_.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hvem_f_rer_Medietilsynet_tilsyn_med_.html + Sun, 28 Jun 2015 23:20:00 +0200 + <p>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 +<a href="http://opencorporates.com">OpenCorporates</a>, der +informasjonen er gratis tilgjengelig med en "del på samme +vilkår"-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.</p> + +<p>Men jeg er jo involvert i +<a href="http://www.frikanalen.no/">Frikanalen</a>, 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:</p> + +<blockquote> +<p>Hei. Finnes det en oversikt over enhetene som Mediatilsynet fører +tilsyn med som åpne data? Jeg lette etter den på +&lt;URL:<a href="http://data.norge.no/">http://data.norge.no/</a>&gt; og +&lt;URL:<a href="http://hotell.difi.no/">http://hotell.difi.no/</a>&gt; uten å +finne noe der, og fant heller ikke noe under +&lt;URL:<a href="http://www.medietilsynet.no/">http://www.medietilsynet.no/</a>&gt;.</p> + +<p>Jeg tenker på alle som har fått kringkastingskonsesjon og alle som +er omtalt under +&lt;URL:<a href="http://www.medietilsynet.no/mediebildet/">http://www.medietilsynet.no/mediebildet/</a>&gt;.</p> + +<p>Jeg skulle gjerne hatt dette maskinlesbart, og inkludert +organisasjonsnummer og hva slags forhold mediatilsynet har til +organisasjonene. Tanken er å importere det i +&lt;URL:<a href="https://opencorporates.com/">https://opencorporates.com/</a>&gt; for analyse, så det bør ikke ha +bruksbegresninger som gjør dette umulig.</p> +</blockquote> + +<p>To dager senere fikk jeg svar, med de datasettene de hadde +tilgjengelig. Svaret fra Hanne Sekkelsten hos Medietilsynet var +informativt og imøtekommende.</p> + +<blockquote> +<p>Vi viser til din e-post av 22. juni, der du ber om å få tilsendt oversikter +over aktører Medietilsynet fører tilsyn med.</p> + +<p>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: +<a href="http://www.medietilsynet.no/mediebransjen/bildeprogramloven/">http://www.medietilsynet.no/mediebransjen/bildeprogramloven/</a> +. 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.</p> + +<p>Vedlagt følger: + +<ul> + + <li>Konsesjoner - lokalradio FM pr. 31.12.2014 [<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-06-28-medietilsynsdata/Konsesjoner_lokalradio_fm_felles_31.12.2014.pdf">PDF (original)</a>]</li> + + <li>Konsesjoner - lokalfjernsyn i det digitale bakkenettet for fjernsyn, pr. mars 2015 [<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-06-28-medietilsynsdata/Lokalfjernsyn_DTT_konsesjoner_mars_2015.docx">DOCX (original)</a>, +<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-06-28-medietilsynsdata/Lokalfjernsyn_DTT_konsesjoner_mars_2015.pdf">PDF</a>]</li> + + <li>Konsesjoner - DAB-radio, status mars 2015 [<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-06-28-medietilsynsdata/Konsesjonaernummer_DAB.xps">XPS (original)</a>, +<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-06-28-medietilsynsdata/Konsesjonaernummer_DAB.pdf">PDF</a>]</li> + + <li>Registreringspliktige kringkastere - status mars 2015: [<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-06-28-medietilsynsdata/Registreringspliktige_kringkastere_register_-_aktive.xps">XPS (original)</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-06-28-medietilsynsdata/Registreringspliktige_kringkastere_register_-_aktive.pdf">PDF</a>] + + <ul> + <li>Kabelsendt fjernsyn + <li>Satellittsendt fjernsyn + <li>Nett-tv + <li>Kabelsendt radio + <li>Satellittsendt radio + <li>Nett-radio + </ul></li> +</ul> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>Med hilsen</p> + +<p>Hanne Nistad Sekkelsten +<br>Seniorrådgiver | Senior Legal Adviser +<br>Medietilsynet | Norwegian Media Authority +<br>A: Nygata 4, NO-1607 Fredrikstad +<br>T: [telefonnummer fjernet] +<br>E: [adresse fjernet] | W: www.medietilsynet.no +</p> +</blockquote> + +<p>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 +<a href="http://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2013-04-05-959">Forskrift +om IT-standarder i offentlig forvaltning</a> 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.</p> - New lsdvd release version 0.17 is ready - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_lsdvd_release_version_0_17_is_ready.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_lsdvd_release_version_0_17_is_ready.html - Sat, 4 Oct 2014 08:40:00 +0200 - <p>The <a href="https://sourceforge.net/p/lsdvd/">lsdvd project</a> -got a new set of developers a few weeks ago, after the original -developer decided to step down and pass the project to fresh blood. -This project is now maintained by Petter Reinholdtsen and Steve -Dibb.</p> - -<p>I just wrapped up -<a href="https://sourceforge.net/p/lsdvd/mailman/message/32896061/">a -new lsdvd release</a>, available in git or from -<a href="https://sourceforge.net/projects/lsdvd/files/lsdvd/">the -download page</a>. This is the changelog dated 2014-10-03 for version -0.17.</p> + Graphing the Norwegian company ownership structure + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Graphing_the_Norwegian_company_ownership_structure.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Graphing_the_Norwegian_company_ownership_structure.html + Mon, 15 Jun 2015 14:00:00 +0200 + <p>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 <a href="http://www.proff.no/">Proff</a>, because +I failed to find a useful source directly from the official keepers of +the ownership data, <a href="http://www.brreg.no/">Brønnøysundsregistrene</a>.</p> + +<p>To get an ownership graph for a set of companies, fetch +<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/brreg-norway-ownership-graph">the code from git</a> and run it using the organisation number. I'm +using the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet as an example here, as its +ownership structure is very simple:</p> -<ul> +<pre> +% time ./bin/eierskap-dotty 958033540 > dagbladet.dot + +real 0m2.841s +user 0m0.184s +sys 0m0.036s +% +</pre> - <li>Ignore 'phantom' audio, subtitle tracks</li> - <li>Check for garbage in the program chains, which indicate that a track is - non-existant, to work around additional copy protection</li> - <li>Fix displaying content type for audio tracks, subtitles</li> - <li>Fix pallete display of first entry</li> - <li>Fix include orders</li> - <li>Ignore read errors in titles that would not be displayed anyway</li> - <li>Fix the chapter count</li> - <li>Make sure the array size and the array limit used when initialising - the palette size is the same.</li> - <li>Fix array printing.</li> - <li>Correct subsecond calculations.</li> - <li>Add sector information to the output format.</li> - <li>Clean up code to be closer to ANSI C and compile without warnings - with more GCC compiler warnings.</li> +<p>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:</p> -</ul> +<pre> +digraph ownership { +rankdir = LR; +"Aller Holding A/s" -> "910119877" [label="100%"] +"910119877" -> "998689015" [label="100%"] +"998689015" -> "958033540" [label="99%"] +"974530600" -> "958033540" [label="1%"] +"958033540" [label="AS DAGBLADET"] +"998689015" [label="Berner Media Holding AS"] +"974530600" [label="Dagbladets Stiftelse"] +"910119877" [label="Aller Media AS"] +} +</pre> + +<p>To view the ownership graph, run "<tt>dotty dagbladet.dot</tt>" or +convert it to a PNG using "<tt>dot -T png dagbladet.dot > +dagbladet.png</tt>". The result can be seen below:</p> + +<img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-06-15-ownership-graphs-norway-dagbladet.png" width="80%"> + +<p>Note that I suspect the "Aller Holding A/S" 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.</p> + +<p>Let me know if you improve the script or find better data sources. +The code is licensed according to GPL 2 or newer.</p> -<p>This change bring together patches for lsdvd in use in various -Linux and Unix distributions, as well as patches submitted to the -project the last nine years. Please check it out. :)</p> +<p>Update 2015-06-15: Since the initial post I've been told that +"<a href="http://www.proff.dk/firma/carl-allers-etablissement-aktieselskab/københavn-v/hovedkontorer/13624518-3/">Aller +Holding A/S</a>" is a Danish company, which explain why it did not +have a Norwegian organisation number. I've also been told that there +is a <a href="http://www.brreg.no/automatiske/webservices/">web +services API available</a> from Brønnøysundsregistrene, for those +willing to accept the terms or pay the price.</p>