Guardian Project @guardianproject@librem.one

**4/4**

I wrote *Gardens, Not Roads* last year about open source projects as communities of practice, not just codebases to maintain.

Their knowledge, relationships, and governance can't be reduced to individual fixes. Can commercial remediation strengthen those communities, or are we building parallel institutions whose priorities are set elsewhere?

https://tarakiyee.com/gardens-not-roads-cultivating-open-source-communities/

"The United States has renewed a warning that it will not lower #tariffs on #EU steel products and a range of other goods unless #Brussels softens its enforcement of the #DigitalMarketsAct #DMA.

The European Commission relayed the message from the #Trump administration to EU capitals at a meeting last week, two people with knowledge of the matter told POLITICO.

The European Commission declined to comment."

The PHP project has released fixes for the vulnerabilities.

We urge you to update to PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 or 8.2.35, released on 21.10.26.

Nextcloud AIO v14.4.1 and Nextcloud E-AIO v8.4.0 will include the updated PHP versions. We will publish these versions once the underlying base images are available.

Official advisory: https://www.php.net/index.php#2026-10-21-5

Our goal cannot be trying to replicate Silicon Valley in Europe. We must build something better!

This is my take on European Digital Sovereignty.

"Open Source Alone Won't Make Europe Digitally Sovereign" - Juhani Lehtimäki on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDj1HWgnNTo

We've been working diligently to get #FDroid Client ready for release.

If naming our releases 'alpha' or 'rc' impeded you to update, now you are free to install.

As usual we are exercising this as a stage roll-out, so you can now expand Versions and install 2.0.

If it's the first time, or even the n-th time, you've heard about our new client work, you can read all the gritty details in the 15 mins post: https://f-droid.org/2026/09/24/f-droid-2.0-a-new-chapter-for-android-freedom.html

To everyone involved in delivering 2.0, a sincere "Thank You!"

#Luanti removed from Google Play due to baseless AI copyright notice

https://blog.luanti.org/2026/08/27/luanti-dmca-tracer-ai/

#FreeSoftware #OpenSource

Fair use is not a loophole in copyright. It is a core principle that helps creativity, education, and culture thrive. ⚖️📖

In RECLAIMING FAIR USE, copyright scholars Patricia Aufderheide & Peter Jaszi explain how understanding copyright's balance make it easier for creators, educators, librarians, and researchers to confidently use their rights. ✍️🏛️

In conversation with Dave Hansen on the Future Knowledge #podcast.

🎧 Listen & subscribe:
https://futureknowledge.transistor.fm/episodes/reclaiming-fair-use

@AuthorsAlliance @paufder

We urge the @EUCommission to scrutinise Apple's announcement closely and reject it as non-compliant with the #DMA.

These concerns were already raised in a complaint to the European Commission filed by @Freiheitsrechte and @article19, which the FSFE contributed to.

https://www.article19.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/2025.10.22_Complaint-against-Apple-Digital-Markets-Act.pdf

A new fee waiver could help some not-for-profit projects, and we welcome that. But it changes nothing about notarization, developer accounts, or entry thresholds. For #FreeSoftware, this is not the substantial shift the #DMA should deliver, and we have been highlighting this in our latest report.

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.20523420

On top of that, every developer still needs an Apple Developer Account just to distribute software at all, no matter the channel.