Working on Bug 404

Isn't it a strange coincidence, that a reasonably non-trivial netfilter bug gets the bugzilla ID 404 ?

Well, before I try to build some conspiracy theories about somebody manipulating the bug id number sequence generation of our bugzilla installation, I'd rather concentrate on the real work.

Dave Remien is an excellent bug reporter, so as a maintainer you can actually not expect anything more than his detailed documentation (yes, I know, certificate has expired, too lazy and busy to update it right now, stay tuned). From an outside perspective, it appears like packets get 'stuck' in nfnetlink_queue. In reality, it seems like the kernel is doing everything fine, just the library eats some packets from time to time, meaning that they remain inside the kernel queue and increase it's length (and thus leak memory) one at a time.

The real cause has yet to be discovered, I'm confident that there will be some news tomorrow.

Austrian Health Card System now GPL compliant

It's already been at some point at the End of 2005, but now I finally got around writing a press release on this subject:

gpl-violations.org has enforced yet another high-profile (at least in the German speaking continental European world) case of a GPL violation. Instead of repeating myself, you might want to read this release or the German version.

My real problem is a lack of time, and it's more than a pity that gpl-violations.org didn't have a press release for nine months - even though those were full of successful enforcement work. I hereby promise to improve my public relations work.