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By Matthew Aslett
The Free Software Foundation will today launch version 3 of its GNU General Public License, 19 months after it began the process to rewrite the license used by an estimated three-quarters of all free and open source software.

The official launch will take place at noon Eastern Time in the FSF’s Boston office, finally delivering the first update to the GPL since 1991. The license has been updated via public draft process that began in December 2005 and has sparked no little controversy.

Although many of the FSF’s GNU free software projects are expected to immediately be licensed under GPLv3, it could be some time before the larger FOSS success stories make it to the new license, if ever.

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Mail migration lets corporate users transfer existing mail to the online platform
John Fontana (Network World)

Just weeks after unveiling offline capabilities to its Google Apps collection of services, the company Monday added a mail migration feature that lets corporate users transfer existing mail to the online platform.

The mail merge feature is available for the Google Apps’ Premier and Education editions. Google has developed a self-service wizard that lets administrators securely transfer into their Google Apps account e-mail from any e-mail server that supports IMAP.

The two most-used corporate e-mail servers — Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Notes — support IMAP interfaces.

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The auction site says it will again buy ads through Google’s AdWords platform - though not as many as before
Jonathan Richards

The world’s largest online auction house, eBay, has said it will resume buying advertising through Google, ending one of the most public tiffs in the internet space in recent times.

The auction site pulled its ads from Google nearly two weeks ago as part of a protest against the search company’s attempt to woo eBay customers to a rival payment service.

But the site — one of the largest users of Google’s pay-per-click advertising system, AdWords — said that it would buy fewer ads than previously, relying more heavily on competing services, such as Yahoo!’s, and Microsoft’s MSN.

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Apple has posted yet another beta of its Safari Web browser for Mac OS X and Windows.
Peter Cohen, Macworld
Friday, June 22, 2007 04:00 PM PDT

Apple has posted a new beta build of its Safari Web browser for Mac OS X and Windows, Safari 3.0.2 beta. It’s available for download now.

Safari 3.0.2 for Mac OS X beta features several changes, including the latest security updates, improved stability, and improved WebKit support for Mail, iChat and Dashboard.

According to a security note offered by Apple, Safari Beta Update 3.0.2 incorporates the same WebCore and WebKit fixes that Apple published separately on Friday as Security Update 2007-006. Other improvements include a fix in both Mac OS X and Windows versions of Safari that corrects access control to window properties to prevent malicious Web sites from cross-site scripting.

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A court rules that e-mails deserve the same 4th Amendment protections as telephone calls.
June 23, 2007

IT ISN’T JUST JUDGES who define the protections of the 4th Amendment’s ban on unreasonable searches and seizures. So do ordinary citizens, with the way they live their lives.

A federal appeals court has reaffirmed that principle by ruling that e-mail messages stored by an Internet service provider deserve the same privacy protections as the contents of telephone calls. In both situations, the legal touchstone is the same: whether users of a communications service have a “reasonable expectation of privacy.”

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