In this edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look new open source from Facebook and Google, the CPTPP's potential to harm open source, open source traffic management, and more.

Facebook and Google release more open source

Internet juggernauts Facebook and Google built their services with a lot of open source software. And while both companies are jealously guard their core code, they do release quite a bit of open source software.

Facebook recently open sourced two applications. First, the Sonar debugging tool[1]. The three-year-old Sonar, which you can grab off GitHub[2], "provides engineers with an intuitive way for inspecting and understanding the structure and behavior of iOS and Android applications." On the heels of Sonar came the release of the Katran load balancing tool[3]. Katran[4] "keeps the company data centers from overloading."

Meanwhile, Google's computing like it's 1987 with the release of its GIF for CLI utility. As the name suggests, it's a terminal application that "can convert a Graphics Interchange Format image into ASCII art for terminal." You can find the source code for GIF for CLI on GitHub[5].

CPTPP could harm open source software

That's the conclusion[6] of Open Source Industry Australia (OSIA), an open source advocacy group based in South Australia. The group is urging the Pacific nation's government to withdraw from the "CPTPP (Comprehensive & Progressive agreement for Trans Pacific Partnership) over provisions that could decimate the Australian open source community."

The OSIA "has identified loosely worded clauses within the chapter on electronic commerce that could have major impacts on creators and users of open source software." It would be "the courts interpret the term 'commercially negotiated

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