Final selection of the most important and notable events of 2021:
- Movement on the displacement of Podlman and the dissolution of the Board of Directors of the SPO Foundation, which arose after the return of St. Petersburg to the Board of Directors of the CPO Foundation. Relief of relationships with a Fund of many open projects, including Red Hat, Fedora, Creative Commons, GNU Radio, Obs Project, SuSe, The Document Foundation. The Debian project took a neutral position. Restructuring of the Control Fund Control.
- Remove the University of Minnesota from the development of the kernel for experiments with sending potentially vulnerable patches.
- Conflicts: Change of power at the Freenode IRC network and the incident with the capture of IRC channels of many projects. Termination of MYPAL development due to Pale Moon actions. The community defended the HOT RELOAD function, remote from .NET. Halhore Implementation of Wireguard for FreeBSD. Sustainment of the work of the team following the observance of the Code of Conduct in the Perl community. Attacks on the creator of the form of Audacity. Changing licenseLibOpenAPTX called Freedesktop. Standard
Community moderators Rust. Interlocking Matrix Client Element on Google Play. Remove Repository MuseScore-Downloader and Barinsta. - Forks: Amazon created OpenSearch, Fork ElasticSearch. ElasticSearch has blocked in client libraries the ability to connect to forcas. ZLIB-NG is a high-performance ZLIB fork. The development of GLIMPE, forka Gimp. Distribution OpenJDK from Microsoft.
- Absorption: Muse Group swallowed Audacity and introduced new confidentiality rules (the community responded for forces. Microsoft bought Refirm Labs. Brave bought the search engine cliqz.
- Trials: Judicial claim against Vizio associated with a GPL violation. Claim and review of the GPL license from Chessbase. An XinUOS proceedings against IBM and Red Hat. Sony Music has achieved blocking pirate sites at the QUAD9 DNS resolver level, the court rejected the quad9 appeal. Google defeated Oracle in a case associated with Java and Android.
- Take-Two Interactive has achieved lock on the GitHub of the open project RE3. After appeal, GitHub restored access, but Take-Two filed a lawsuit against developers, and Github re-blocked the repository.
- Copyright: copyright violation in the GNOME screen keeper. Attempting a third-party organization to register PostgreSQL trademark in Europe and the USA. Borrowing the OBS code in Tiktok Live Studio. Popilefly trolls. DMCA exceptions allowing the replacement of router firmware.
- GitHub has established a service to protect developers from unreasonable DMCA locks. Github has tightened the rules related to the placement of safety research results, after the conflict associated with the removal of the exploit prototype for Microsoft Exchange. GitHub removed restrictions for developers from Iran.
/Media reports.