Vizio Responds to Software Freedom Conservancy’s GPL Compliance Lawsuit: Will Not Release Source Code, Files to Move Case to US Federal Court
In October 2021, the Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) initiated a lawsuit against Vizio, an American TV manufacturer, for shipping products with copyleft licenses but refusing to provide the source code after ...
Gravatar Says It Was Not Hacked After “Have I Been Pwned” Service Notifies Users of a Breach
Gravatar is fielding questions today after “Have I Been Pwned,” a data breech checker service, tweeted “New scraped data: Gravatar had 167M profiles scraped in Oct last year via an enumeration ...
Videomaker Block Theme Targets Film Directors and Video Creators
Automattic’s latest Blockbase child theme landed in the WordPress.org directory today. Videomaker is aimed at film directors and video creators. I have put it through its paces in the last week ...
FSE Outreach Round #11: Going on a Site Editing Safari
Anne McCarthy announced Round #11 of the FSE Outreach Program on November 11. The latest test, dubbed Site Editing Safari, calls on volunteers to run through a step-by-step list to find ...
Open Source Initiative Launches New Free Membership Level, Opens 2022 OSS Usage Survey
Open Source Initiative, the organization that stewards the Open Source Definition, has launched a new survey on the usage of open source, in collaboration with OpenLogic by Perforce. The survey takes a ...
PHP Foundation Gains Momentum with $280K Estimated Annual Budget on Open Collective
At the end of November, prominent members of the PHP community formed a new PHP Foundation as a non-profit organization, “to ensure the long life and prosperity of the PHP language.” ...
Hello Charts Launches a Native Chart-Building Experience for the Block Editor
Luke Carbis and Rob Stinson, two of the three-person Block Lab team that WP Engine picked up in 2020, are back together on a new project. This time, they are joined ...
#10 – What’s in WordPress 5.9, and What Is Openverse?
About this episode. On the podcast today we have something new. Until now I’ve interviewed one person at a time, but today there’s three people on the call, Birgit Pauli-Haack, Marcus ...
WordPress 5.9 Beta 1 Released with Detailed Testing Guide
WordPress 5.9 beta 1 is now available for testing. With just eight weeks remaining until the official release lands, the team is focusing on testing, an important part of the development ...
One Month Left To Take the 2021 WordPress Annual Survey
Last month, Josepha Haden Chomphosy announced the annual WordPress survey. If you have not gotten around to participating, it is still open for the rest of 2021, leaving everyone another 30 ...