governance

The Linux Foundation submitted its OpenMDW-1.1 AI model license to the Open Source Initiative for approval, but reviewers are contesting a clause that terminates rights over copyright lawsuits, not just patent ones.

The Python Software Foundation announced 17 candidates for the first Python Packaging Council election on August 13, with voting scheduled for September 1-15.

OpenMandriva says former contributor Davide Beatrici deleted years of GitHub repository work and published a package that obsoleted GNOME and Cosmic packages in its Cooker branch after a community dispute.

Overnight lobbying by Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and David Sacks persuaded President Trump to cancel a planned executive order that would have let federal agencies preview frontier AI models up to 90 days before release.

Tim Abbott is donating Kandra Labs to a newly created Zulip Foundation and joining Anthropic, adopting a Mozilla-style nonprofit governance model for the open-source team chat project.

Microsoft's enterprise agent control plane went GA on May 1, 2026, adding local Windows agent discovery, Windows 365 for Agents, and public-preview registry sync to AWS Bedrock and Google Gemini Enterprise.

PEP 772 was accepted on April 16, 2026, establishing an elected five-member Python Packaging Council with authority over standards covering pip, setuptools, and PyPI.

TDF removed 30+ Collabora staff from membership—including 7 of the project's top 10 core committers—citing a legal dispute clause in newly adopted bylaws, prompting Collabora to announce a separate development track.

A community revolt over commit drought, staff cuts, and opaque development is forcing Oracle to rethink its stewardship of the world's most deployed open source database.