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Free as in Freedom
July 5, 2023
Summary
Come to FOSSY 2023!
This show was released on Wednesday 5 July 2023; its
running time is 00:05:55.
Show Notes
FOSSY 2023 will happen next week in Portland, OR, USA.
March 9, 2021
Summary
Karen and Bradley discuss two other DMCA exemptions filed by Software
Freedom Conservancy during the 2020/2021 Triennial Rulemaking Process at
the copyright office: one for wireless router firmwares and one for
privacy research.
This show was released on Tuesday 9 March 2021; its
running time is 00:52:52.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:39)
●Supporters of
Conservancy can join this
mailing list to hear and see live recordings of every show!
Segment 1 (06:30)
●Conservancy filed a DMCA
exemption request for wireless routers, and updated it with their long
comment on the issue.
●NPR's
Planet Money had a show that discussed how recycling plastic in
the USA was somewhat of a large con game funded by the plastics industry.
Both audioatranscript is
available. (19:32, 20:44)
Segment 2 (29:10)
●Bradley and Karen discuss the third exemption request that Conservancy
filed, for
research to find privacy flaws, and updated it with a long
comment on the issue.
●Karen and Bradley noted that individuals
can file reply comments before the deadline of Wednesday 10 March 2021 at
23:59 US/Eastern. Note that the “neutral comment”
requirement appears to no longer be listed; the 2021-03-10 (47:20)
Tags: faif, copyright
January 14, 2021
Summary
Software Freedom Conservancy filed multiple exemptions in the USA
Copyright Office Triennial Rulemaking Process under the Digital Millennium
Copyright Act (DMCA). In this episode, Karen and Bradley explore the
details of Conservancy's filing to request permission to circumvent
technological restriction measures in order to investigate infringement of
other people's copyright, which is a necessary part of investigations of
alleged violations of the GPL and other copyleft licenses.
This show was released on Thursday 14 January 2021; its
running time is 00:51:45.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:39)
●Bradley claims that you'll now love the audcast more than ever
(02:51)
●Conservancy filed many exemptions as part of the currently ongoing
triennial DMCA Process. (02:50)
Segment 1 (04:22)
●Everyone in the Free Software community wishes the USA's Digital
Millennium Copyright Act didn't exist. (05:24)
●Bradley is currently doing research going to the year 1790 that shows
the foundations of the copyright act, but Karen points out that Bradley
isn't a professional copyright historian (yet). He points out he
isan amateur copyright historian (05:45)
●DMCA is the USA's implementation of the WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT),
but is more a restrictive copyright act than the WCT requires. (06:50)
●Bradley mentioned that the three videos from the Copyright Office,
which
are linked to from Conservancy's blog post on the subject that, while
they are Copyright Office propaganda, that are helpful to explain the
DMCA (10:57):
●
A Legal Overview of § 1201 (PDF slides only).
●The Triennial Rulemaking Process for §1201 (PDF slides only).
●Streamlined Petitions for Renewed Exemptions (PDF slides only).
●Conservancy filed the most
exemption requests in the 2020/2021 Rulemaking Process (21:25)
Segment 2 (28:07)
●Conservancy filedanexemption request
and a “Long
Form” comment in support of it that was labeled
“Class 16: Computer Programs &—; Copyright License Investigation”
by the Copyright Office (29:00)
●Bradley
mentioned that people can get arrested just for giving talks under the DMCA,
referring to Dmitry Sklyarov. Adobe simply called the FBI and got him
arrested under DMCA. (38:50)
Segment 3 (34:36)
If you are a Conservancy Supporter as well as being a FaiFCast listener,
you can join this
mailing list to receive announcements of live recordings and attend
them through Conservancy's Big Blue Button (BBB) server.
Tags: faif, copyright, copyleft, Conservancy
March 31, 2020
Summary
The first live podcast of Free as in Freedom, hosted at SeaGL
2019 in November 2019. Hear questions from the studio audience and
answers from Bradley and Karen.
This show was released on Tuesday 31 March 2020; its
running time is 1:21:02.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:38)
Producer Dan speaks on mic to introduce that this is a live show.
Segment 1 (01:17)
●This is a live show from SeaGL 2019, a
community-organized FaiP
(02:15)
●Carol Smith from Microsoft asked about being a charity in the USA
under recent tax changes regarding tax deduction and, and asked about Conservancy's
annual fundraiser which had completed by the time this show
was released. (04:53)
●Deb took a photo during the show (07:30)
●A questioner asked about the so-called “ethical but-non-FOSS
licenses”. Bradley gave an answer that is supplemented well by
this blog post (10:15) and Karen mentioned at CopyleftConf
2020 there was a discussion about this. (15:15) The follow up question
was also related to these topics (15:44).
●Eric Hopper asked about how Conservancy decides when a project joins,
and what factors Conservancy considers in projects joining (18:14)
●A written questioner asked how to handle schools requiring proprietary
software as part of their coursework. (22:00)
●Michael Dexter asked about Karen's teaching at Columbia Law
School. (27:25)
●A written questioner asked about copyleft-next's
sunset clause. (29:22) Karen mentioned “Copyleft, All wrongs
reversed” as it appeared on n June 1976 on Tiny BASIC, which
inspired the term copyleft to mean what it does today. (30:45)
●Karen spoke about the issues of copyright and trademark regarding
Disney, that is supplemented by
this blog post. (32:52)
●Carol Smith asked what Karen and Bradley thought were Conservancy's
and/or FOSS' biggest achievements in the last decade. (35:20) Karen
mentioned Outreachy was a major
success. (37:08)
●A questioner asked about using the CASE Act to help in GPL
enforcement. Bradley discussed how it might ultimately introduce problems
similar to arbitration
clauses. (41:42) Since the podcast was recorded, the CASE Act has
also passed the Senate, but does not seem to have been signed by the
President. (47:30)
●Bradley noted that Mako Hill has pointed out that FOSS
has not been involved in lobbying enough. (48:10)
●A questioner in the audience asked about the Mozilla Corporation
structure would allow Mozilla to do lobbying for FOSS. (50:57) Karen
explained the Mozilla corporate legal structure (51:35).
●A questioner in the audience asked about Mako
Hill's keynote and how individuals can help further the cause of software
freedom. (54:53)
●Michael Dexter asked if software patents are still as much of a threat as
they once were. (1:01:30)
●Carol asked about the supreme court hearing the Oracle v. Google case
(1:09:04)
Tags: faif, Conservancy
November 12, 2019
Summary
Karen and Bradley discuss the end to Microsoft's e-book platform and
generally the dangers and disasters that Digital Restrictions Management
(DRM) cause for software users and developers.
This show was released on Tuesday 12 November 2019; its
running time is 00:46:57.
Show Notes
Karen and Bradley discuss the end to Microsoft's e-book platform and
generally the dangers and disasters that Digital Restrictions Management
(DRM) cause for software users and developers.
Segment 0 (00:35)
●Bradley mentioned that Microsoft ended
their e-book platform. He said this was “last month” but
we ended up releasing this show late, so it was in August 2019
(01:31).
●Bradley mentioned the analog hole. (09:50)
●Karen discussed the exception
process under DMCA, which Conservancy
participated in regarding “Smart” TVs. (12:30)
●Bradley mentioned this historical
burning of the Library of Alexandria as a Roman weapon, comparing it
to DRM. (15:07)
●Bradley talked about how Netflix
and Microsoft used Silverlight initially as the method of DRM, and
that Microsoft was a leader in the entertainment industry in providing DRM
(20:00)
Segment 1 (26:31)
●Bradley and Karen discuss how DRM and other lock-down of devices,
including medical devices, are creating problems in society generally.
●Karen noted that the role of for-profit companies is not to
safeguard the public interest. (41:10)
●Bradley mentioned you can turn
off DRM on the Google Play store for your book (as the
publisher). (43:04)
Tags: faif, microsoft, Conservancy
May 31, 2019
Summary
Bradley and Karen enjoy and discuss Molly De Blanc's keynote at the
first annual CopyleftConf, entitled The Margins of Software Freedom, followed by an exclusive interview with Molly!
This show was released on Friday 31 May 2019; its
running time is 00:58:07.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:37)
●Bradley mentioned (without the title) the film, When
a Stranger Calls, which is indeed a real movie, not a TV movie,
and was from the late 1970s —
although Bradley saw it on TV sometime in the 1980s. (02:15)
Segment 1 (04:11)
A recording of Molly De
Blanc's keynote at the first annual (2019) CopyleftConf, entitled entitled
The Margins of Software Freedom. Slides
for Molly's talk are available on her gitlab account.
Segment 2 (20:11)
Bradley and Karen talk about the keynote and set up the interview.
Segment 3 (23:56)
Extended interview with Molly from on site at CopyleftConf 2019!
Segment 4 (34:06)
●Bradley and Karen discuss what ideas Molly's interview got them
thinking about.
●Bradley wrote a blog post about Delta's
anti-union marketing. (40:50)
●Molly De Blanc is now an employee at
the GNOME Foundation and President
of the Open Source Initiative (52:53)
Tags: faif, GPL, security, social justice
May 11, 2019
Summary
Bradley and Karen discuss two additional permissions that can be used
to “backport” the GPLv3
Termination provisionstoGPLv2
— the Kernel Enforcement Statement Additional Permission, and the
Red Hat Cooperation Commitment. A blog post on Conservancy's site summarizes the discussion on this show.
This show was released on Saturday 11 May 2019; its
running time is 00:41:56.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:35)
●Bradley mentioned irregardless
is not actually a word, but it does appear to be slang, which dates
back to 1795! (03:23)
●The
additional permission system was codified as a formal part of
GPLv3, but are generally more informal under GPLv2. (05:24)
●Karen explained what the Principles
of Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement. (07:49)
●Karen mentioned that Daleks ter
minate!
(08:51)
Segment 1 (13:04)
●Bradley mentioned the inbound=outbound FOSS licensing
contributor assent system (18:15)
Segment 2 (26:10)
●Karen and Bradley discuss the term “non-defensive” and what
it means.
●Bradley mentioned the Twin
Peaks lawsuit as a non-hypothetical case where the RHCC would not
apply where GPL enforcement was used by Red Hat itself as a retaliation
tactic. (29:23)
●The Kernel
Enforcement Statement and the RHCC
are available online.
Segment 3 (38:40)
The next episode of will be an interview with Molly De Blanc and
recording of her keynote at CopyleftConf 2019
Tags: faif, GPL, copyright
April 22, 2019
Summary
Bradley and Karen discuss the details of the completion
of the lawsuit (which Conservancy supported) between Christoph Hellwig and
VMware in Germany.
This show was released on Monday 22 April 2019; its
running time is 00:38:29.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:37)
●Bradley mentioned the episode of Red Dwarf,
White
Hole, where the characters
are speaking too slowly or two quickly due to time
differentials. (01:30)
●Bradley explained that the
Hellwig vs. VMware suit in Germany has concluded. (03:30)
●German is a civil law
legal system. (05:15)
●Christoph Hellwig announced
on his website that he has decided not to appeal. (07:18)
●Bradley did a technical
analysis how much of Christoph's code appeared in the infringing VMware
product. (07:50)
●Till Jaeger
was Christoph's lawyer; Till was also the lawyer for Harald Welte's
(currently defunct) gpl-violations.org
project. (09:04)
Segment 1 (09:26)
●“Trolling”
refers to being a non-practicing entity. Patrick McHardy is specifically
a practicing entity, since he upstreamed a lot of code in
Linux. (09:50)
●Bradley was thinking of the patent troll, Intellectual
Ventures. (10:40)
●Bradley that the Eastern
district of Texas hears many patent cases in the USA. (10:50)
●Bradley mentioned a This
American Life, Episode 411, which discussed patents. Show
hosts/producers Laura Sydell and Alex Blumberg visit one of those
“empty-but-not” office buildings in the Eastern District of
Texas. (11:18)
●Bradley
and Karen wrote about Patrick McHardy's behavior back in July 2016
— Conservancy was the first to talk about it publicly. Bradley
sought to prevent the “compliance industrial complex” from
using knowledge of Patrick's behavior to unduly scare people. (13:10)
●Conservancy (with FSF) also published the
Principles of Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement (15:10)
●The rest of the Netfilter team,
except for Patrick McHardy, endorsed the
Principles. (16:30)
●The VMware suit started 2015-03-05, and began before Patrick McHardy
started his problematic behavior. While the VMware suit was working its
way through the court, McHardy had filed many inappropriate
lawsuits. (18:30)
●German court decisions are very rarely published, but thanks to hard
work by everyone involved, the appeal
decision, and the lower
Court's decision (the latter of which was also translated
into English.) (27:30)
Segment 2 (33:01)
●In the next episode, Karen will discuss the Kernel Enforcement
Statement Additional Permission, and the Red Hat “Cooperation
Commitment”. (35:40)
Tags: faif, copyright, patents, copyleft
April 2, 2019
Summary
Bradley and Karen discuss and critique the new initiative by the Linux Foundation called
CommunityBridge. The podcast includes various analysis that expands
upon their
blog post about Linux Foundation's CommunityBridge.
This show was released on Tuesday 2 April 2019; its
running time is 00:47:17.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:36)
●Conservancy helped Free Software Foundation and GNOME Foundation begin
fiscal sponsorship work. (07:50)
●Conservancy has always been very coordinated with Software in the
Public Interest, which is a FOSS fiscal sponsor that predates Conservancy. (08:26)
●Conservancy helped NumFocus get started as a fiscal sponsor by providing
advice. (08:53)
●The above are all 501(c)(3) charities, but there are also 501(c)(6)
fiscal sponsors, such as Linux Foundation and Eclipse
Foundation. (10:00)
●Bradley mentioned that projects that are forks can end up in different
fiscal sponsors, such as Hudson
being in Eclipse Foundation, and Jenkins
being associated with a Linux Foundation sub-org. (10:30)
●Bradley mentioned that any project — be it SourceForge, GitHub, or
Community Bridge — that attempts to convince FOSS developers to use
proprietary software for their projects is immediately suspect
(12:00)
●Open Collective, a
for-profit company seeking to do fiscal sponsorship (but attempting to
release their code for it) is likely under the worst
“competitive” threat from this initiative. (19:50)
Segment 1 (21:23)
●Projects that use CommunityBridge are
required to act in the common business interest of the Linux Foundation
members. (27:30)
●Board of Directors seats at the Linux Foundation are for sale,
according to their by-laws. (28:50)
●Bradley advises that you should not put anything copylefted into
CommunityBridge — given Linux Foundation's position on copyleft and
citing the ArduPilot/DroneCode example. (29:50)
●CommunityBridge appears to
only allow governance based on the “benevolent dictator for life
model” (31:40), at least with regard to who controls the money
(34:30)
●Bradley mentioned the LWN
article about Community Bridge. (33:22)
Segment 2 (36:54)
●Karen mentioned that CommunityBridge also purports to address
diversity and security issues for FOSS projects. (37:00)
●Bradley mentioned the code hosted on k.sfconservancy.org and also the Reimbursenator
project that PSU students wrote. (42:00)
Segment 3 (42:44)
Bradley and Karen discuss (or, possibly don't) discuss what's coming up
on the next episode. Fact of the matter is that this announcement wasn't written yet when we recorded this episode and we weren't sure if 0x65 would be released before or after that announcement was released. We'll be discussing that topic on 0x66.
Tags: faif, licensing, Conservancy, Linux Foundation
March 27, 2019
Summary
Bradley and Karen interview their own producer, Dan Lynch, on site at Copyleft Conf 2019.
This show was released on Wednesday 27 March 2019; its
running time is 00:36:00.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:46)
●Karen now teaches teaches a
course at Columbia University. (03:40)
●In addition to being the producer of Free as in Freedom,
Dan Lynch was the host of Rat
Hole Radio, the co-host of Linux
Outlaws, and currently co-hosts Hollywood
Outlaws. (04:30)
Segment 1 (5:19)
●Dan helps co-organize Oggcamp
which is having its tenth-anniversary event on Saturday 19
October 2019. (08:00)
●Bradley mentioned the phrase from IT Crowd
quote: Did you see
that ludicrous display last nig
ht?
(11:08)
●Dan talked about The
Manchester Ship Canal. (13:16)
●Dan promoted Hollywood
Outlaws where he and his co-host Fab talk about Bosch.
(23:18)
●Dan promoted his own podcast about comics called Tales of the
Unattested. (23:27)
●Dan Lynch has a personal website,
which has his blog. (23:55)
●Bradley referenced the phrase Y
ou
are no Jack Kennedy
which was stated by
Bentsen on Wednesday 5 October 1988 during the VP debate between
Quayle and Bentsen for the 1988 USA Presidential campaign. Details and
background of this are explained by NBC in
this story. (26:30)
Segment 2 (28:23)
Bradley and Karen briefly dissect the interview with Dan.
Segment 3 (32:22)
Karen and Bradley mention that they'll discuss the Linux Foundation
initiative, “Community
Bridge” in the next episode. If you want a preview Bradley and
Karen's thoughts, you can read
their blog post about Linux Foundation's “Community Bridge”
initiative.
Tags: faif, conferences, copyleft
March 20, 2019
Summary
In their final installment regarding their joint keynote at FOSDEM 2019, entitled: Can
Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today?: Confessions of
Activists Who Try But Fail to Avoid Proprietary Software,
you listeners can hear the final product — a recording of the
actual FOSDEM keynote. Afterwards, Karen and Bradley compare notes on
what went wrong and what went right (but mostly what went wrong) during
the talk.
This show was released on Wednesday 20 March 2019; its
running time is 01:10:28.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:00:35)
Bradley and Karen talk logistics of how the talk is embedded in the audio.
Segment 1 (00:04:14)
The audio in this segment taken directly from the video of Karen and
Bradley's FOSDEM
2019 opening keynote, entitled Can Anyone Live in Full Software
Freedom Today? Confessions of Activists Who Try But Fail to Avoid
Proprietary Software, which was given . If you'd rather watch the video, you
can do so via FSODEM's video site in either webm
format or in mp4
format.
Segment 2 (00:46:01)
●Karen mentioned “time
shifting”, which was permitted for the public, despite
accusations of copyright infringement, in the Betamax
case. (55:10)
Segment 3 (01:05:31)
Karen and Bradley mention that the next episode will be an interview
with Dan Lynch recorded at CopyleftConf 2019.
Tags: faif, conferences, FOSDEM
March 12, 2019
Summary
Bradley and Karen have the last pre-talk installment of discussing the
preparation for their joint keynote at FOSDEM 2019, entitled: Can
Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today?: Confessions of
Activists Who Try But Fail to Avoid Proprietary Software. This
episode is the third of three episodes where Bradley and Karen record
their preparation conversations for this keynote address. In this
particular episode, they discuss the issue of letting others use
proprietary software on your behalf, the problem of relying too much on
that, and then finish up discussing with how they'll include this
material into the final talk.
This show was released on Tuesday 12 March 2019; its
running time is 00:28:00.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:34)
●Karen discussed the idea of a shabbos goy, and the
analogy between that and allowing other people use proprietary on your
behalf. (02:58)
●Bradley and Karen discussed that it is equally abhorrent to ask
someone else to use proprietary software for you as it is to use
yourself, since someone's software freedom is compromised in any event
(06:58)
●Bradley mentioned that he had previously applied to serve on the
USA's Internal Revenue Service (IRS)'s Electronic
Tax Administration Advisory Committee (ETAAC). Bradley mentioned how
sadly the IRS typically accepts
people from proprietary software companies like Intuit but has to his
knowledge never accepted anyone involved in FOSS software for IRS form
preparation (10:02)
●Bradley mentioned the Free Software PDF fill-in tools evince and flpsed (12:24)
●Karen stated that Conservancy's policy is that: We care so muc
h
about software freedom that w
e would rather use proprietary
software than
have someone else
lose their software freedom
. (15:20)
●Karen mentioned that her Linux Conf
Australia 2019, Right to Not
Broadcast, which you can view online. (22:18)
Segment 1 (23:15)
●Bradley mentioned the A-Team line, “I love it when
a plan comes together”. (23:23)
●Bradley and Karen generally discuss the final plans for incorporating
this material into the keynote
Tags: faif, FOSDEM, social justice
February 19, 2019
Summary
Bradley and Karen continue the process of preparing their joint keynote
at FOSDEM 2019, entitled: Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom
Today?: Confessions of Activists Who Try But Fail to Avoid Proprietary
Software. This episode is the second of three episodes where
Bradley and Karen record their preparation conversations for this keynote
address. In this particular episode, they discuss the golden age in
history when they used very little proprietary software, and then discuss
the beginning of their personal Dark Ages of using some proprietary
software.
This show was released on Tuesday 19 February 2019; its
running time is 00:35:23.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:35)
●Bradley mentioned The Who's destruction
of their instruments and his discomfort with it in relation to
computers. (06:10)
●Bradley and Karen mentioned their long-time use of the HTC Dream (07:30)
●Bradley mentioned that he helped start the Replicant project, but his
primary contribution was its name. (08:24)
Segment 1 (12:34)
●Karen mentioned the pinball
machine that she owns. (12:50)
●Bradley mentioned the Dead Kennedys album,
Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death. (25:10)
●Karen and Bradley discuss proprietary Javascript. (28:20)
●This is the screen you
get if you attempt to use Google maps without Javascript. (28:45)
Karen was wrong about this image no longer appearing. The image linked
to here is from the day before our FOSDEM keynote was delivered. (29:55)
●Bradley and Karen recorded this episode while on site at LinuxConf
Australia 2019. They had dinner the night this was recorded at a
restaurant called, Dux Dine in
Christchurch, NZ. There were, in fact,
ducks dining at Dux Dine. (35:07)
Tags: faif, conferences, FOSDEM
January 13, 2019
Summary
Bradley and Karen pull back the curtain and begin the process of
preparing their joint keynote at FOSDEM 2019, entitled: Can Anyone
Live in Full Software Freedom Today?: Confessions of Activists Who Try But
Fail to Avoid Proprietary Software. This episode is the first of
multiple episodes where Bradley and Karen record their preparation
conversations for this keynote address.
This show was released on Sunday 13 January 2019; its
running time is 00:36:37.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:36)
Bradley and Karen discuss the plan to do prep for their FOSDEM keynote
“on air” as part of FaiF broadcasts.
Segment 1 (07:13)
●Bradley read out the abstract from Bradley
and Karen's keynote, Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today?
Confessions of Activists Who Try But Fail to Avoid Proprietary
Software at FOSDEM 2019. (circa 10:00)
●This started for Bradley with the HTC Dream, and Karen's struggle
started with her heart device (10:42)
●Bradley and Karen discussed how they plan to organize their FOSDEM
2019 joint keynote.
●Bradley mentioned that if Karen and Bradley recorded an episode of the
two of them reading Lorem Ipsum that
listeners would likely still listen. Karen disagreed. (33:05)
Tags: faif, conferences, FOSDEM
December 31, 2018
Summary
Bradley and Karen return, as promised, in 2018 (just barely)! They
discuss the many non-FOSS and otherwise software-freedom-unfriendly
licenses that have been promulgated in 2018.
This show was released on Monday 31 December 2018; its
running time is 00:36:49.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:36)
Bradley and Karen discuss ideas for what to do with the oggcast going
forward.
Segment 2 (07:49)
●Bradley mentioned the field of endeavor restriction in Open Source Defintion. (09:20)
●Bradley mentioned how badly Amazon treats its workers who pack boxes,
which was widely
reported this month (10:22).
●Bradley referenced that someone changed attempted to change a license
on a project to prohibit use by USA border protection agents. This was
the Lerna project, and Bradley wrote
a blog post about it earlier this year. (12:14)
●Bradley mentioned the controversy about the new MongoDB license, the
SS Public License, which Bradley
also wrote a blog post about earlier this year (14:09)
●karen reports that many people at the Sustain OSS Conference were surprised
that sustaining the idelogy of software freedom was something that people
value. (27:10)
Tags: faif, licensing
November 1, 2016
Summary
Bradley and Karen discuss Conservancy's ContractPatch Initiative that
will help Free Software developers negotiate their agreements with employers.
This show was released on Tuesday 1 November 2016; its
running time is 00:50:29.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:38)
●Software Freedom Conservancy has two blog
posts
and a mailing
list to discuss the Contract Patch initiative (02:40).
●Bradley searched for the NPR story he mentioned but just couldn't find it,
but he did fine a
similar one covering terms of service agreements (08:30)
●Karen mentioned the the Outreachy
Project of Conservancy. (09:30)
●The Google
Map API ToS states that you have to pay for it after a certain amount of
usage (17:30)
●Bradley mentioned the book, What
Color Is Your Parachute? (24:30)
●The “put it in writing” commercials from AT&T and MCI. (46:44)
Tags: faif, commercial, Conservancy
September 21, 2016
Summary
Bradley and Karen discuss Conservancy's conference trips and
presentations during the first half of 2016.
This show was released on Wednesday 21 September 2016; its
running time is 00:53:28.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:38)
●Bradley attended and spoke at FOSDEM 2016 and LinuxConf Australia 2016
(03:10)
●Bradley and Karen co-coordinated the FOSDEM 2016 Legal and Policy
Issues DevRoom (04:43)
●Tom Marble did an interview-format
discussion with Richard M. Stallman at FOSDEM 2016 (04:55)
●Bradley gave two talks at FOSDEM 2016,
Copyleft For the Next Decade: A Comprehensive Plan for the GPL
and A
Beautiful Build: Releasing Linux Source Correctly (06:40)
●Richard
Fontana gave a talk at FOSDEM 2016 entitled Open source
foundations: threat or menace? (08:15)
●The Doge
take on FOSDEM 2016 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom was Much
politics. Many peoples.
(11:00)
●There was a Conservancy Supporter event at the Novotel
Grand Place in Brussels at FOSDEM 2016. (14:00)
●Bradley gave a talk at
LCA 2016. (15:20)
●Karen gave
the closing keynoteatLibrePlanet 2016, entitled
Companies, free software, and you . (16:54)
●Karen Sandler gave a talk
at the Linux Foundation's Embedded Linux Conference 2016 entitled
Tales of Enforcement (27:00)
●Karen gave a talk at
at
the Postgres Conference in New York. (34:26)
●Bradley and Karen were both on a panels at OSCON. (35:00)
●Bradley and Karen flipped burgers (vegan ones and otherwise) at the OSCON 2016 party. (39:30)
●Bradley gave a keynote at OSS
2016. (45:05)
●Bradley spoke at two user groups in Norway as well. He hasn't made
the blog post he mentioned yet, but plans to. (45:50)
●Karen mentioned Episode 0x4A which
discussed the OpenStack CLA debate. (50:50)
Tags: faif, OSCON, conferences, FOSDEM, Conservancy
September 2, 2016
Summary
Bradley and Karen give a basic introduction of copyright licensing of
Open Source and Free Software.
This show was released on Friday 2 September 2016; its
running time is 01:02:03.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:35)
●Bradley mentioned the phrase “fixed
in a tangible medium” which appears in the USA copyright law. (03:10)
●Bradley mentioned the Sherman Antitrust
act. (04:05)
●Bradley mentioned the card game Pit (04:15)
●Bradley
jokingly quoted Mit
Romney's famous gaffe, “Corporations are people, my friend.”
(04:44)
●Bradley read Title 17, the USA
Copyright act many times. (06:50)
●Bradley mentioned the court case, UNIX
System Laboratories, Inc. v. Berkeley Software Design, Inc., which
resulted in releasing the parts of BSD that could be Free Software. (12:27)
●Bradley mentioned the FSF's Free Software Definition
(13:11)
●Bradley mentioned OSI's
Open Source Definition (13:16)
●Apparently, the problem of categorization is called Categorization in
Philosophy. (14:30)
●The issue of Open Source not being trademarked is discussed in this
essay by Richard Stallman. (15:44)
●The basic categorizations of types of FLOSS licenses are copyleft and non-copyleft.
●Karen suggests reading GPLv2 and GPLv3. (39:31)
●Bradley made a crude
drawing of the spectrum of licenses. (40:20)
●Bradley mentioned the The
Principles of Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement (55:40)
Tags: faif, GPL, copyright, copyleft
August 18, 2016
Summary
Bradley and Karen discuss the plan for restarting Free as in
Freedom and plans for episodes to come.
This show was released on Thursday 18 August 2016; its
running time is 00:26:59.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:36)
●Bradley said in the before time
— in the long long ago
,
which is a reference to the South Park
parody of the ST:TOS episode, Miri (01:30)
●Bradley mentioned when Karen
Sandler left the GNOME Foundation and took over
Bradley's old job as Executive Director of Conservancy. (02:20)
●Karen mentioned that Bradley used to
be Executive Director of the Free Software Foundation, a position now held
by John Sullivan. (03:25)
●Dan blogged
about his illness, details ofscheduling surgery, which he occurred
successfully. (10:28)
●Karen mentioned the Conservancy Supporter program
discussed in detail on Episode 0x57. (12:40)
●Bradley mentioned the short
lived Jon Masters Linux Kernel Mailing List Summary
Podcast. (14:45)
●Karen and Bradley discussed Video Killed the
Radio Star by the Buggles, and Bradley attempted to mention this version which he
likes better. (17:36)
●Bradley mentioned
Kantian Ethics (20:05)
●Bradley mentioned the Portlanda skit, Rent it Out from
S04E02 (20:24)
●Karen mentioned WellDeserved: A
Marketplace for Privilege (20:38)
Tags: faif, Conservancy
July 14, 2016
Summary
Bradley and Karen discuss Conservancy's Debian Copyright
Aggregation project. (Note: While it was released
just after DebConf16, this episode was
recorded well before DebConf16; the discussions about DebConf refer to
DebConf15.)
This show was released on Thursday 14 July 2016; its
running time is 00:39:32.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:38)
Note: While it was released just after DebConf16, this
episode was recorded well before DebConf16; the discussions about DebConf
refer to DebConf15.
●Bradley mentioned his talk at DebConf. This was recorded before
DebConf 16, so Bradley is talking about DebConf 15, which was summarized
in this blog post and his keynote
from DebConf15. A video of that talk is available. (02:00)
●Bradley mentioned this bug
about the copyright notice on the Debian website (07:47)
●Ian
Jackson asked about bequeathing copyright at Bradley's talk. (15:45)
Tags: faif, copyright, Debian
November 24, 2015
Summary
Free as in Freedom host Christopher Allan Webber interviews
Karen Sandler and Bradley Kuhn about their work on copyleft and at
Software Freedom Conservancy. You
can become a Supporter
of this work!
This show was released on Tuesday 24 November 2015; its
running time is 00:26:10.
Show Notes
●Bradley mentioned Cygnus
Solutions, ultimately acquired by Red Hat, which was an early
for-profit supporter of copylefted projects.
●Bradley and Karen discussed the VMware
lawsuit.
●Chris Webber
wrote this blog post in response to a Shane Curcuru, who is VP of Brand
Management at the Apache Software Foundation, anti-copyleft talk at OSCON
2015. Shane's talk is consistent with Apache
Software Foundation's historical and recent
anti-copyleft positions (12:23)
Tags: faif, licensing, copyleft, Conservancy
June 4, 2015
Summary
Bradley and Karen discuss the VMware
lawsuit that Software Freedom Conservancy is funding.
This show was released on Thursday 4 June 2015; its
running time is 00:33:52.
Show Notes
●Bradley and Karen discuss the lawsuit
that Christoph Hellwig filed. (07:37)
●Karen mentioned her LibrePlanet
keynote about the VMware lawsuit. (21:30)
●Bradley's talk at LinuxConf Australia
2015, Considering The Future of Copyleft, is available
online. (22:04)
●Bradley mentioned the discussion on pump.io about NPR fundraisers. (24:23)
●Bradley mentioned a Debian
8 release party at LinuxFest Northwest, which Microsoft didn't invite
him to, since he wasn't willing to give Microsoft his contact info for
marketing purposes. (29:16)
●Karen and Bradley promoted the Conservancy supporter
program (31:40)
Tags: GPL, Debian, conferences, copyleft
March 3, 2015
Summary
Bradley and Karen interview Nick Coghlan, who works onn
development and test infrastructure for Red Hat and is heavily involved
with the Python community.
This show was released on Tuesday 3 March 2015; its
running time is 00:40:12.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:00:35)
Bradley and Karen interviewed Nick Coghlan who works for
Red Hat and contributes to various Open Source and Free Software projects
such as Python. Nick discussed his work on the infrastructure team at Red
Hat, and his advocacy of Kallithea
for use for the
CPython project.
Tags: faif, conferences, Kallithea
January 29, 2015
Summary
Bradley and Karen interview Carol
Smith, Programs and Open Source Community Manager of Google
Summer of Code about the program and its policies and procedures.
This show was released on Thursday 29 January 2015; its
running time is 00:39:39.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:00:35)
Bradley encourages those who attend FOSDEM 2015 to attend sign up to attend the
Supporter Night Event on 30 January 2015 in Brussels, Belgium.
Segment 1 (00:50:11)
More Show notes for this one coming soon!
Tags: faif, conferences, Google Summer of Code
December 30, 2014
Summary
Bradley and Karen discuss what plagiarism is (or isn't) and how it
interacts with copyleft licenses.
This show was released on Tuesday 30 December 2014; its
running time is 01:16:43.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:00:37)
●Please donate to to send Dan to a
conference. There's a progress bar on faif.us now.
●You can also donate to support Software Freedom
Conservancy, where Bradley and Karen work, by becoming a
supporter.
●Karen mentioned
her blog post about the supporter program. (00:08:30)
●Bradley mentioned
his blog post about the supporter program as well. (00:09:30)
Segment 1 (00:16:16)
●Bradley and Karen pick up on a topic original discussed in Segment 1
of FaiF 0x02.
(00:16:50)
●Bradley discussed the Laurie
Stearns' article from the California Law Review, entitled
Copy Wrong: Plagiarism, Process, Property, and the Law
(00:23:50)
●Bradley mentioned The
GNOME Foundation Copyright Assignment Guidelines that he
co-authored. (00:28:05)
●Bradley mentioned the Doris
Kearns Goodwin Plagiarism controversy, and how it would have been
simply redressed if the material she reused had been
copylefted. (00:29:26)
●Karen mentioned that
Flickr
made different policies for CC-BY-SA'd works when selling printed
versions. (32:30)
●Bradley mentioned that even software freedom advocates just comply
with the copyleft licenses and don't work collaboratively, particularly
during hostile forks, using Conservancy's
Kallithea project as an example. (00:35:25)
●Bradley reiterated a point he made in FaiF 0x08,
where he discussed that Linus Torvalds switched to GPL for Linux because
he realized non-commercial restrictions weren't appropriate. (00:37:50)
●Bradley mentioned the hostile fork of GCC called egcs.
The H-Online years later wrote a long article that discussed the egcs fork
egcs fork. (00:39:46)
●Bradley mentioned that plagiarism is ultimately about attribution, and
modern DVCS systems makes attribution easy and renders plagiarism
impossible (if DVCS logs are accurate). (00:44:15)
●Bradley mentioned that he continually has learned the lesson that if
you let your employer keep copyright, you lose everything you had when you
switch employers (if the work isn't copylefted). (00:47:00)
●Bradley discussed the methods of attribution required in
GPLv3. (00:50:05)
●Bradley mentioned that copyright notices are the primary method of
attribution in copyleft licenses, and even non-copyleft ones
too. (00:53:19)
●Karen discussed the attribution requirements in text of
CC-BY-SA 4.0. (00:53:49)
●Bradley wants to do a whole FaiF show about how CC-BY-SA
may not be a true copyleft since it has no source code requirement
(00:54:40)
●Bradley mentioned the “fake name” that film directors use
when they wish to disavow a work they aren't happy with. The name is, in
fact, Alan
Smithee, and indeed the 1984 film Dune
lists Smithee as a director even though David Lynch is known publicly to
be the director. (00:58:40)
●Bradley mentioned the unfair
accusations against Red Hat when they stopped publishing their internal
Linux Git repository and instead released a more standard
ChangeLog. (01:05:30)
Tags: faif, GPL, Creative Commons, commercial, licensing, plagiarism
December 24, 2014
Summary
Bradley and Karen play and discuss
Stefano
Zacchiroli's talk entitled Legal
issues from a radical community angle that he gave 12:00
European/Central time on Sunday 2 February 2014 at FOSDEM 2014.
This show was released on Wednesday 24 December 2014; its
running time is 01:04:50.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:00:35)
Karen and Bradley introduce the talk.
Segment 1 (00:02:38)
Stefano
Zacchiroli's talk entitled Legal
issues from a radical community angle . You can watch
the video instead of listening to our audio and/or follow
along with Zach's slides.
Segment 2 (00:53:17)
●Please note: Bradley and Karen recorded
these comments before the init system coupling
referendum completed, which is why Karen and Bradley don't discuss
it. However, their comments about the Debian democratic process are
highly relevant to the recent vote. Also, Bradley discussed his views on
that specific issue as a guest co-host on Linux Outlaws,
Episode 368.
●Bradley and Karen discussed SPI as Debian's fiscal sponsor
and used a few terms like grantor/grantee (01:01:20)
Tags: faif, licensing, copyright, Debian, FOSDEM, trademarks
December 11, 2014
Summary
Bradley and Karen play and discuss Pam
Chestek's talk entitled Why
Licenses Requiring Use of Trademarks are Non-Free that she gave on Sunday 2 February 2014 at FOSDEM 2014.
This show was released on Thursday 11 December 2014; its
running time is 01:10:00.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:00:34)
●You can donate now to send Producer Dan Lynch
to a Free Software conference. Donations will be made to Conservancy
and any proceeds raised beyond the amount needed to send Dan to a
conference will support Conservancy generally. (05:30)
●Dan will of course need to follow Conservancy's
travel policy since Conservancy will fund his travel. (06:50)
●Bradley discussed the backstory on the Groupon attempt
to steal GNOME's name. GNOME Foundation had
to go public to raise funds to fight Groupon (10:05)
Segment 1 (00:13:26)
Pam
Chestek gives a talk entitled Why
Licenses Requiring Use of Trademarks are Non-Free. You can watch
the video instead of listening to our audio and follow
along with Pam's slides.
Segment 2 (01:00:37)
●Bradley mentioned Pam's talk from the previous
year, which was played on 0x3C. (01:01:32)
●Bradley mentioned that GPLv3§7 allows
for removal of additional restrictions that abuse that clause of GPLv3.
(01:04:24)
Tags: faif, commercial, licensing, FOSDEM, trademarks
November 24, 2014
Summary
Karen and Bradley interview Richard M. Stallman on the occasion of the
30th Anniversary of the GNU
Project.
Note: Episode 0x5B was released out of sequence, but they are
in the order of release date on faif.us (rather than numerical order by
episode number).
This show was released on Monday 24 November 2014; its
running time is 00:40:06.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:34)
Note: Episode 0x5B was released out of sequence, but they are
in the order of release date on faif.us (rather than numerical order by
episode number).
Bradley and Karen introduce the interview.
Segment 1 (01:20)
●This segment is an interview with Richard M. Stallman on the occasion of GNU's
thirtieth anniversary.
●RMS mentioned the
LibreJS project. (26:10)
Segment 2 (33:58)
●Bradley and Karen discuss the interview.
●Bradley mis-rememered, RMS
said he would start on
Thanksgiving in the original announcement (38.40).
Tags: faif, GNU, Richard M. Stallman
November 11, 2014
Summary
Karen and Bradley announce
Conservancy's DMCA filing and Conservancy
and FSF's joint launch of the copyleft.org project, and then discuss
Eileen
Evans' FOSDEM 2014 talk,
entitled Licensing Models and Building an Open Source Community.
This show was released on Tuesday 11 November 2014; its
running time is 01:13:10.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:36)
●Conservancy file a DMCA
petition regarding so-called “Smart TVs”. (02:00)
●Bradley mentioned the magic
marker that was as circumvention technique under DMCA. Here's an amusing joke press release about the
issue. (03:10)
●There isn't much documentation online of Bruce Perens
live DMCA violation, but this
article appears to be the main one on the subject, and there is also
this interview (06:46).
●Bradley and Karen talked about
the joint FSF/Conservancy copyleft.org announcement. (09:10)
●Bradley first pulled together the materials for copyleft.org for
FSF's CLE seminars, particularly the one in March 2014. (10:00)
●Karen noted that Conservancy donated the time to write up a pristine example of good complete,
corresponding source code for a GPL'd product. (11:30)
●Bradley
discussed the incorrect GPLv2§2(a) violation accusations that some made against Red Hat regarding
its changes to its publication of RHEL's Linux fork. (12:00)
●Karen and Bradley encouraged listeners to submit
talk proposals for the FOSDEM 2015 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom (15:03)
Segment 1 (19:38)
This is a recording of Eileen
Evans' FOSDEM 2014 talk,
entitled Licensing Models and Building an Open Source
Community. If you'd rather watch
the video, which includes the slides from her talk, it's available on
FOSDEM's site.
Segment 2 (46:40)
●Bradley and Karen discuss Eileen's talk.
●Bradley mentioned the OpenStack CLA fight, which was covered in a panel discussion on
FaiF 0x4B. (56:16)
●Karen mentioned the 501(c)(6) issues that OpenStack Foundation has faced,
which were discussed already
on FaiF 0x4E. (56:34)
Tags: faif, commercial, licensing, non-profit, copyright, CLAs, copyleft
October 23, 2014
Summary
Note: Episode 0x5A was released out of sequence, but they are in the order of release date on faif.us (rather than numerical order).
Karen and Bradley discuss connections between the so-called
“Gamergate” controversy and how it relates to the Free
Software community and a few obvious legal issues.
This show was released on Thursday 23 October 2014; its
running time is 00:55:31.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:37)
●Karen asked if Bradley had heard of the Gamergate
situation. (01:30)
●Matthew Garrett wrote a blog post regarding this topic entitled Actions have
consequences (or: why I'm not fixing Intel's bugs any more)
(10:23)
●Mathew was attacked on
LKML about this blog post (10:50)
●Lennart
Poettering also wrote an essay recently about aggression and attacking
people in Free Software communities. (12:12)
●Karen mentioned the harassment
Kathy Sierra faced in the late 2000s. (13:00)
●Bradley called out Linux Foundation to ask why they tacitly support
the bad behavior by its employees and others in the Linux Project (14:35,
31:10)
●Bradley mentioned that Antti Aumo in his LinuxCon Europe 2011 keynote,
said that a great thing about the Internet of Things is that you can
put a lock on y
our fridge when the wife's on a
diet
. (16:32)
●Bradley mentioned the Eddie Murphy's
Saturday Night Live skit, White Like Me, which
according
to the transcript, originally aired on 1984-12-15 on
SNL. (24:45)
●Bradley mentioned FaiF 0x13, which discussed
torts and why they're important. (29:50)
●Bradley wrote a blog post about Bradley
mentioned his blog post about John Oliver's discussion of the Miss
America Pageant (43:30)
●Bradley suggested that Intel should have instead given the Gamasutra
money to Society
of Women Engineers Scholarship fund. (45:30)
●Karen mentioned the statement
Intel published a statement regarding the situation. (47:10)
Tags: faif, commercial, tort, gender
October 9, 2014
Summary
Bradley and Karen discuss and criticize comments made by Linus
Torvalds at his Q&A during DebConf
2014 in Portland, OR on 29 August 2014.
This show was released on Thursday 9 October 2014; its
running time is 00:38:51.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:37)
Bradley and Karen discuss the Q&A
with Linus TorvaldsatDebConf
2014 in Portland, OR on 29 August 2014. (01:09)
Segment 1 (04:30)
●Ryan Lortie asked about an offensive public statement
Linus Torvalds made on 6 July 2012. (05:04)
●Bradley mentioned that Linus Torvalds argued Red Hat
was kowtowing to Microsoft using offensive language. (07:57)
●Karen mentioned that Linus
called GNOME an unholy mess
. (19:05)
Tags: faif, GPL, FSF, licensing, Debian, gender, conferences
September 23, 2014
Summary
Bradley and Karen discuss the key differences between 501(c)(3) and
501(c)(6) organizations in the USA, and discuss recent refusals by the IRS
to grant such statuses to Open Source and Free Software orgs.
This show was released on Tuesday 23 September 2014; its
running time is 00:49:25.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:34)
●Bradley mentioned the 501(c)(3) vs. 501(c)(6) difference came up on FaiF 0x41. (03:35)
●Bradley mentioned that in 501(c)(3)
status from the IRS is based on receiving some status governed by §170(b)(1)(A)
of the tax code. (Most Free Software charities, such as Conservancy,
are classifed as non-profit charities under §170(b)(1)(A)(vi).)
(05:10)
●Bradley mentioned this issue had been discussed on FLOSS Foundations' mailing list
(05:50)
●Bradley discussed that at the OSCON
2013 tutorial, Community Foundations 101, most of the
501(c)(6) representatives who spoke argued incorrectly that the
differences between 501(c)(3)'s and 501(c)(6)'s were not
substantive. (10:50)
●Karen referenced how the
TV show Silicon Valley parodies the irony of for-profit
software companies claiming they make the w
orld a better place
.
(11:58)
●Bradley mentioned he was inspired by Michael Moore in his work on Free
Software. (15:02)
●Bradley mentioned Karen's
talk called Identity Crisis (15:21)
●Karen mentioned that open
source was on the list of items the IRS gave additional scrutiny. (16:51)
●Bradley mentioned a blog
post by Jim Nelson where Yorba's rejection was discussed; Yorba's
501(c)(3) application was previously discussed on was
discussed on 0x1C, and covered
in many other places. (17:46)
●Karen
wrote a blog post about why she isn't worried for Conservancy's 501(c)(3)
status at this time. (18:30)
●Bradley mentioned that IRS decisions don't make precedent, and if
there's a dispute, it would go to USA Tax Court (19:00)
●Mozilla Foundation's odd hybrid for-profit/non-profit model was audited
by the IRS, and Mozilla Foundation settled with the IRS. (20:22)
●Open Stack Foundation was initially denied
501(c)(6) status, as reported on Mark McLoughlin's blog. (25:10)
●Bradley promised links to both Yorba's
501(c)(3) denial letter from the IRS and Open
Stack Foundation's 501(c)(6) denial letter from the IRS. (The response
to the IRS from OpenStack, written by DLA Piper, OpenStack
Foundation's law firm, is also available, too. (27:15)
●Bradley and Karen discussed Board of Directors meetings in FaiF 0x45: I'm Board
(31:40)
●Bradley mentioned the How
fresh stays fresh campaign, which includes the Nature's Pause Button
television commercials by the American
Frozen Food Institute, which is a 501(c)(6) organization. It's FY
2012 Form 990 is the most recent on available.
●Bradley also mentioned the Beef: It's What's For
Dinner advertisting campaign that has existed for decades in the USA,
which is sponsored by the National Cattlemen's
Beef Association, Inc. which is a 501(c)(6) as well. It's FY
2012 Form 990 is the most recent on available.
(35:40)
●Bradley further mentioned the Pork: the other white
meat advertising campaign, which has also existed for decades but is
now called the Pork:
Be Inspired campaign, seems a bit more dubious in its non-profit
existence. It appears to be funded by the National Pork Board Foundation,
which is ostensibly a 501(c)(3) but has no
assets, revnue nor expenses, and appears to be a front for an
org called the America's Pork
Producers / Pork Checkoff, which appears to be some quasi-govermental
agency related to pork (in other words, it's pork for pork). More research would probably be needed to
figure out better what's going on here with regard to non-profit status,
but it seems that unlike the Beef ads, which are clearly funded by a
501(c)(6), this campaign is funded by a separate legislation, presumably
unrelated to §501(c). There is, BTW, also, a 501(c)(5) called the
National Pork Producers Council, which
appears to be where
the big money is (— not surprisingly — 501(c)(4)'s and 501(c)(5)'s often
make 501(c)(6)'s and 501(c)(3)'s look tiny by comparison). (36:13)
Segment 1 (39:43)
Conservancy
and OSI jointly announced a working group on IRS applications and
denials. (40:49)
Tags: faif, non-profit, Form 1023
September 11, 2014
Summary
Karen Sandler interviews Lennart Poettering and Alan Day during the
GNOME Asia Summit 2013. Bradley and Karen comment on this interview.
This show was released on Thursday 11 September 2014; its
running time is 00:44:39.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:38)
Bradley and Karen introduce Karen's interview with Lennart Poettering and Alan Day.
Segment 1 (02:06)
Karen interviews Lennart Poettering and Alan Day about
Lennart's Sandboxed
Applications for GNOME talk at GNOME Asia Summit 2013.
Segment 1 (35:24)
●Bradley mentioned his comment
during the GPLv3 process regarding the Ty Coon issue. (41:20)
Tags: faif, gnome
August 26, 2014
Summary
Bradley and Karen discuss the
talk, Copyleft vs. Permissive vs. Contributor License Agreements: A Veteran’s PerspectivebySimo Sorce given at
FOSDEM 2013 on Sunday 3
February 2013.
This show was released on Tuesday 26 August 2014; its
running time is 01:14:47.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:00:38)
Bradley and Karen introduce Simo's talk.
Segment 1 (00:03:02)
The slides
from Simo's talk are available, if you want to follow along
Segment 2 (00:59:50)
●Bradley menitoned his blog
post about CLA's on Conservancy's website. (01:00:10)
Segment 3 (01:10:22)
Bradley and Karen are still trying to decide what to do about the FOSDEM 2014 talks.
Tags: faif, GPL, licensing, copyright, CLAs
August 5, 2014
Summary
Bradley and Karen host a panel discussion on CLAs with Van
Lindberg and Richard Fontana.
This show was released on Tuesday 5 August 2014; its
running time is 00:54:05.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:38)
Bradley and Karen introduce the panel discussion.
Segment 1 (01:28)
●The panel guests are Van
Lindberg and Richard Fontana.
●Van quoted from the Apache Corporate
CLA. (40:55)
Segment 2 (48:17)
●Bradley and Karen wrap up the discussion.
●Bradley mentioned the AKG C1000S
which we use to record the oggcast. (50:40)
Tags: faif, commercial, licensing, CLAs
July 30, 2014
Summary
Bradley and Karen discuss Contributor Licensing Agreements, which pulls
material from Bradley's blog
posts
on the subject.
This show was released on Wednesday 30 July 2014; its
running time is 00:44:34.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:36)
●Bradley mentioned FSF's copyright assignment
process. (05:50)
●Bradley mentioned RMS' essay regarding what
you should do if a company asks you to assign copyright on Free
Software. (14:00)
●Open Stack is reconsidering their CLA.
●Bradley mentioned again that goofy Eclipse contributor poster. (27:22)
Tags: faif, commercial, licensing, copyright, IBM, patents, CLAs
July 18, 2014
Summary
Bradley and Karen discuss the
talk, Why the free software phone doesn't existbyAaron Williamson given at
FOSDEM 2013 on Sunday 3
February 2013.
This show was released on Friday 18 July 2014; its
running time is 01:08:30.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:37)
Bradley and Karen introduce the talk.
Segment 1 (04:06)
Aaron's slides area available.
Segment 2 (56:41)
●Bradley mentioned dakota
imaging where he used to work. (1:02:15)
dacotag imaging
●Karen mentioned Aaron's
OSCON 2010 talk (but we incorrectly said it was 2009). (1:04:35)
Tags: faif, mobile, FOSDEM, Restricted Boot
July 1, 2014
Summary
Bradley and Karen discuss the
talk, copyleft-next: an IntroductionbyRichard Fontana given at
FOSDEM 2013 on Sunday 3
February 2013.
This show was released on Tuesday 1 July 2014; its
running time is 01:35:07.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:37)
Bradley and Karen introduce the talk.
Segment 1 (05:37)
The slides
Fontana's talk on copyleft-next are available.
Segment 2 (01:06:51)
●Bradley mentioned the issue of Noam Chomsky's points on
concision (01:13:23).
●Bradley mentioned the anti-GPL keynote by Tom
Preseton-Werner of Github at OSCON 2013. (01:14:53)
●Bradley and Karen discussed the
Harvey Birdman Rule. (1:27:45)
●Bradey mentioned a comment he posted
about CHR-governed policy meetings. (01:29:00)
Tags: faif, GNU, GPL, FSF, copyright, Richard Fontana
June 19, 2014
Summary
Bradley and Karen discuss why software freedom as a political, social
and moral issue is important to each of them personally.
This show was released on Thursday 19 June 2014; its
running time is 01:09:27.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:36)
●Bradley mentioned that he used to frequently give talks on why
software freedom is important to him. There are available on FSF's
Audio/Video website three
different
recordings
of that talk, usually titled Software Freedom and the GNU
Generation. (01:28)
●Bradley's first distribution was SLS. (18:20)
●Bradley mentioned that OpenStack
was denied 501(c)(6) trade association status by the IRS. (37:56)
●Karen mentioned the Cooper
Union law suit. (48:40)
Tags: faif, social justice
June 3, 2014
Summary
Bradley and Karen discuss the
talk, Legally Cementing Licences in Legislation: Two Law Merchant
Models for Free Software LicencesbyMaureen
O’Sullivan given at FOSDEM
2013 on Sunday 3 February 2013.
This show was released on Tuesday 3 June 2014; its
running time is 01:06:41.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:00:37)
●Bradley mentioned the Planet money
t-shirt story (03:04)
●Bradley mentioned he buys Union made sweat
pants (04:42)
Segment 1 (00:06:48)
Bradley and Karen introduce the talk.
Segment 2 (00:07:20)
This segment is the
talk, Legally Cementing Licences in Legislation: Two Law Merchant
Models for Free Software LicencesbyMaureen
O’Sullivan given at FOSDEM
2013 on Sunday 3 February 2013. You can follow along
with the slides.
Segment 3 (00:50:55)
●Bradley mentioned a talk he gave on 2005-03-12 at UC Irvine to a
workshop of academics meeting about the research area of Computing
Communities. Bradley still has some email archives regarding this, but
can't find any online link to the workshop (URLs in the emails are all
dead) or a recording of his talk. (58:52).
●As Bradley mentioned, ESR
self-identifies as a gun nut. (01:00:19)
●Bradley mentioned FaiF
0x3A, which had Gabriel Holloway's talk (01:03:27)
Tags: faif, GPL, licensing, copyright
May 27, 2014
Summary
Bradley and Karen discuss the details, what to worry about, and what
the usual duties are when serving on a Board of Directors for a USA
non-profit. The discussion is primarily about 501(c)(3) organizations,
but at the end they spend some time discussing 501(c)(6) organizations as
well.
This show was released on Tuesday 27 May 2014; its
running time is 01:02:56.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:00:44)
●An
image of Alfie chewing on the antler (01:22)
●Karen
is running for the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors. (05:15)
●Bradley once criticized the CNRI OPEN SOURCE
LICENSE AGREEMENT (used for parts of Python), because it is governed by
the laws of a place that doesn't exist. (06:48)
●Bradley mentioned a Planet
Money episode that talked about it's “too easy” to incorporate
in Delaware (23:50)
Segment 1 (00:32:25)
●Bradley and Karen discuss various additional things about being on a
Board of Directors, including why and how you might be able to serve on
one.
●Bradley and Karen discuss the requirements for
getting on a 501(c)(6) Board like Linux Foundation (55:30)
Tags: faif, non-profit
May 13, 2014
Summary
Bradley and Karen explain why they've been gone for so long, and then
discuss the recent
Oracle v. Google Federal Appeals Court Decision.
This show was released on Tuesday 13 May 2014; its
running time is 00:55:43.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:00:31)
●Karen is now Executive Director of Conservancy and Bradley is
President and Distinguished Technologist. (03:01)
●Bradley will be working extensively on the NPO Accounting
Project. (03:40)
Segment 1 (00:09:37)
●Karen says the
Oracle v. Google Federal Appeals Court Decision is not an engaging
read, but the lower
court decision was. (09:50)
●Karen said: You're out of your
element, Donny! (12:38)
●Karen mentioned a tweet from the EFF (15:23)
●Bradley mentioned his older blog post about the
previous decision (16:48)
●Karen incorrectly said we never recorded a show on the previous
decision, but we did indeed discuss the previous Oracle v. Google decision
in , which Bradley and Karen discussed in Episode 0x35 (18:53)
●Karen and Bradley explained what an affirmative
defense, arguments
in the alternative, and merger
doctrine. (21:03)
●Bradley mentioned the Apache Software
Foundation is now publicly more against copyleft software than proprietary
software, and that such position is unreasonable, unlike the OpenBSD
position that copyleft and proprietary software are equally bad: a
position Bradley disagrees with but agrees is consistent, reasonable moral
stance. (38:40)
●Bradley mentioned his discussions with Mark J. Wielaard of the
Classpath project (52:20)
●Bradley and Karen ask people to doante to Conservancy.
Tags: faif, copyright, Oracle
October 17, 2013
Summary
Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss John
Sullivan's talk from FOSDEM 2013,
entitled State
of the GNUnion.
This show was released on Thursday 17 October 2013; its
running time is 01:19:37.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:00:33)
Karen and Bradley introduce the talk.
Segment 1 (00:01:58)
The slides
for John's talk are available, and the source
of those slides is available too.
Segment 1 (00:54:31)
●Bradley mentioned RMS'
essay, Who Does That Server Really Serve?
(01:08:55)
Segment 2 (01:14:53)
Private
Internet Access became a new GNOME Advisory Board Member.
Tags: faif, GNU, GPL, FSF, non-profit, copyright, FOSDEM
September 4, 2013
Summary
Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss Jean-Baptiste
Kempf's talk from FOSDEM 2013,
entitled Relicensing libVLC and VLC modules from GPL to LGPL.
This show was released on Wednesday 4 September 2013; its
running time is 01:25:43.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:00:28)
●The plural of hiatus appears to be hiatukset, but hiatuses is the
proper English. (01:50)
●Bradley adopted two dogs from a shelter. They like kongs (02:30)
●Bradley's wife has a blog with pictures of their
dogs. (04:30)
Segment 1 (00:05:52)
Jean-Baptiste Kempf slides
are available for this talk.
Segment 2 (01:03:20)
●Bradley had written a a blog post
about the VLC relicensing. (01:03:48)
●Bradley mentioned a an
article in The Onion about pugs known health problems
(01:15:47)
●Karen mentioned The Last
GUADEC blog post.
Segment 3 (01:21:00)
Bradley and Karen discussed the
release of the ExFAT Samsung source code.
Tags: faif, FSF, licensing, copyright, LGPL
August 14, 2013
Summary
Bradley and Karen interview Jim Zemlin,
Executive Director of the The
Linux Foundation.
This show was released on Wednesday 14 August 2013; its
running time is 00:37:16.
Show Notes
Bradley and Karen interview Jim Zemlin,
Executive Director of the The
Linux Foundation.
Segment 0 (00:00:33)
Bradley and Karen introduce the interview.
Segment 1 (00:03:03)
Bradley and Karen interview Jim Zemlin.
Segment 2 (00:25:23)
●Karen and Bradley wrap up the discussion about 501(c)(3) and
501(c)(6).
●Bradley referenced this post which ocurred in this thread about Linus saying Greg KH is a doo
r-mat
. (26:36, 34:55)
●The OSCON session that Bradley chaired was Non-Profits
Organizations for FLOSS Projects: There Is No Place Like Home,
and the slides
are available. (33:21)
Tags: faif, commercial, non-profit
August 2, 2013
Summary
Note: initially, from 2013-08-01 18:30 through 2013-08-02 08:40 (US/Eastern), the audio file links in the feed did not work. That has been corrected.
Bradley and Karen interview Alison Chaiken about Free Software in
cars.
This show was released on Friday 2 August 2013; its
running time is 00:51:30.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:00:38)
Bradley and Karen introduce the interview.
Segment 1 (00:01:43)
●Bradley and Karen interview Alison Chaiken about Free
Software in the automotive industry.
●Alison mentioned the Genivi
Alliance, which is an industry trade association with some interest in
“Open Source”.
●Alison presented a session at LibrePlanet
about the Right to Repair act in Massachusetts. (00:14:30)
●Alison encouraged listens to get involved with Right to Repair and the Massachusetts Right to Repair.
Segment 2 (00:36:09)
●Karen moderated a panel
at the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit
2013 on Automotive issues (37:12)
Tags: GPL, licensing
July 17, 2013
Summary
Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss The
panel discussion on the GNU Affero General Public License from
FOSDEM 2013.
This show was released on Wednesday 17 July 2013; its
running time is 01:28:47.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:00:38)
●Bradley asked for donations again to Conservancy's NPO accounting
software campaign and Karen asked for donations to GNOME's Privacy Campaign.
Segment 1 (00:04:50)
This is the Panel
Discussion: GNU Affero General Public License, version 3 from
FOSDEM 2013. The speakers, in the order their voices are heard, are Tom
Marble (introduction), Richard
Fontana (moderator), Bradley
M. Kuhn, Eileen
Evans, and Christopher
Allan Webber.
Segment 2 (01:06:47)
●Bradley mentioned the phrase Gi
ve me convenience or give me
de
ath
, which is from a title
of the Dead Kennedys album he suggested applied to the selection of
proprietary software (01:10:10)
●Bradley mentioned RMS'
recent update to his Who does that server really serve?
essay. (01:11:30)
●Bradley mentioned his
blog post on doing VoIP encryption with Free Software. (01:14:04)
●Bradley mentioned his talk entitled The
Affero GPLv3: Why It Exists & Who It's For? at the Southern California Linux Expo
11x. The slides are
available and the sources for
the slides are available. (01:17:30)
Tags: faif, FSF, FOSDEM, AGPL
June 13, 2013
Summary
Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss Gervase
Markham's talk from FOSDEM
2013, entitled Mozilla: Licensing In The Trenches.
This show was released on Thursday 13 June 2013; its
running time is 01:11:55.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:00:34)
●Bradley encouraged listeners to Conservancy's campaign for
non-profit accounting software.
(02:10)
●Bradley mentioned his
2009 blog post encouraging people to donate to Free Software charities (02:50)
●Karen asked people to donate
to the GNOME Foundation privacy campaign (04:11)
Segment 1 (00:04:57)
Gerv's slides
from his FOSDEM 2013 talk can be downloaded from FOSDEM's website.
Segment 2 (00:51:48)
Bradley and Karen discuss Gerv's talk.
Tags: Creative Commons, licensing, non-profit, copyright, IBM, conferences, FOSDEM
May 28, 2013
Summary
Karen and Bradley discuss the sexist
comment issue that occurred a few months ago at PyCon USA 2013.
This show was released on Tuesday 28 May 2013; its
running time is 00:39:23.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:00:34)
●Bradley and Karen previously discussed conference behavior back in
Episode 0x04.
●Bradley had blogged a few years ago about the
issues of sexism through the computer industry, including this study showing
the glass ceiling in CS academics. (05:17)
●Bradley mentioned that he'd blogged in the past that proprietary
software companies also have issues of sexism at conferences (05:58)
●Bradley mentioned the How to Perform Like
a Porn Star CouchDB talk at a Ruby Conference (06:13)
●There is indeed a Project named
PyCorn. (09:38)
●Bradley mentioned the Planet Money
story about Online Pharmacies but he couldn't find the original audio
of the longer piece that ends with the phrase Stay
Shady, Internet
(21:30)
●Bradley mentioned a quote about the human mind being the most
dangerous thing because everything is in it, which is actually from Heart of
Darkness by Joesph Conrad. (23:40)
●Bradley mentioned that a keynoter at
LinuxCon Europe made sexist comments back in 2011. (30:02)
●Bradley and Karen encouraged listeners to promote the GNOME Foundation Outreach Program for
Women (31:20)
●Bradley mentioned Shuttleworth's
comment at LinuxCon North America in 2009 (32:02).
Tags: faif, gender, conferences
May 7, 2013
Summary
Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss Pamela
Chestek's talk from FOSDEM
2013, entitled How
to Share a Trademark.
This show was released on Tuesday 7 May 2013; its
running time is 01:23:47.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:00:33)
Karen and Bradley introduce the talk.
Segment 0 (00:02:05)
Pam gave us slides,
but it's all in one big SVG.
Segment 2 (00:55:10)
●The talk that Bradley mentioned was this talk that Karen gave at Linux
Foundation Collaboration Summit 2012; he was unable to find a
recording. (57:04)
●Note that most of the time the word source
was used in the talk
and Karen's comments, it means origin
, not source
code
. (01:05:55)
●Bradley mentioned this Planet
Money story about the 5¢ coke. (01:21:37)
Tags: faif, licensing, FOSDEM, trademarks
April 11, 2013
Summary
Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss Simon
Phipps' and Amanda
Brock's talk from FOSDEM 2013,
entitled Should
We Embrace App Stores?.
This show was released on Thursday 11 April 2013; its
running time is 01:11:25.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:00:33)
Karen and Bradley introduce the talk.
Segment 1 (00:03:03)
●Simon and Amanda used no slides during their talk.
●Amanda misquotes Bradley at 07:30. Bradley said: An unenforced
copyleft is the moral equivale
nt of a permissive license
, not that you
give a license automatically not by enforcing. You can listen to FaiF Episode 0x38 to
verify.
Segment 1 (00:49:35)
Bradley and Karen discuss the talk.
Tags: licensing, FOSDEM
April 3, 2013
Summary
Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss Gabriel
Holloway's talk from FOSDEM
2013, entitled FOSS
code goes in and never comes out: The Challenge of Sandboxed Proprietary
Cloud Services.
This show was released on Wednesday 3 April 2013; its
running time is 01:24:33.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:00:33)
Karen and Bradley introduce the talk.
Segment 1 (00:05:48)
The speaker's that you hear are:
●Gabriel Holloway, who gives the talk
●Till
Jaeger asks the first question.
●A few other questions are asked, but we're unsure who the speakers
are.
●Tom
Marble, asks a question later.
Unfortunately, Gabe didn't provide us with slides.
Segment 2 (00:52:25)
●Bradley mentioned the Berne
Convention on Copyright. (01:07:19)
●Karen mentioned Cooper Union and how they are
in danger of running out of money for their full tuition
scholarships. (01:10:00)
●Bradley looked but couldn't find the NPR story about terms of use. (01:19:37)
Tags: faif, GPL, licensing, FOSDEM, AGPL
March 26, 2013
Summary
Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss Till
Jaeger's talk from FOSDEM 2013,
entitled What
is a derivative work under European Copyright Law?.
This show was released on Tuesday 26 March 2013; its
running time is 01:13:07.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:00:31)
Karen and Bradley introduce the talk.
Segment 2 (00:02:41)
The speaker's that you hear are:
●Tom
Marble, introduces the talk, and asks one of the questions.
●
Till
Jaeger, who gives the talk
The slides
for Till Jaeger's talk are available.
Segment 2 (00:49:11)
●Bradley and Karen discuss Till's talk.
●Clarence
Thomas spoke the first time in the Supreme Court. Bradley said that
he said it did n
ot
, but apparently he actually said he did
not
. (59:49)
●Bradley scanned
in his Brussels airport train ticket that had his notes on it, where
you can read noa push caa
. (01:06:40)
●Bradley mentioned the phrase Elvis has
left the building. (01:07:15)
Tags: faif, copyright, FOSDEM
March 19, 2013
Summary
Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss the GPL
Compliance Panel from FOSDEM 2013.
This show was released on Tuesday 19 March 2013; its
running time is 01:13:02.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:00:34)
Karen and Bradley have some not-so-witty banter about the FOSDEM 2013
Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom.
Segment 1 (00:07:19)
The speakers on the panel are (in order of appearance):
●Tom Marble, introduces the panel.
●Karen Sandler, moderator.
●Alexios Zavras
●Richard Sands
●Bradley M. Kuhn
●Harald Welte
Segment 2 (01:02:51)
●Bradley mentioned the Comic Book Guy from
The Simpsons, but incorrectly said he didn't have an actual
name, which he does (Jeff Albertson) (01:05:30)
February 13, 2013
Summary
Karen and Bradley discuss the LWN article, GnuTLS, copyright
assignment, and GNU project governance and other issues related to
copyright assignment.
This show was released on Wednesday 13 February 2013; its
running time is 01:01:15.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:46)
●Bradley didn't want his words compared to the Ayn Rand's quote from an
interview with Phil Donahue where she said I'm not go
ing to die, it's
just that worl
d will end
. (02:54)
●Bradley discussed the reaction to on 0x36 that occurred in this identi.ca
thread. (04:20)
●Bradley and Karen discussed the LWN article, GnuTLS, copyright
assignment, and GNU project governance. (11:15)
●Bradley pointed out that every other copyleft license allows for
relicensing under newer versions automatically (i.e., they have an
automatic -or-later ), and Karen asked whether Sun's
CDDL does. Bradley checked later, Karen was correct that CDDL's
later version clause (Section 4) is similar to the GPL
policy. (23:00) However, Fontana wrote to us on IRC to say CDDL's lice
nse upgradeability clause is no
t entirely like GPL's. The GPL
states that if no version numbe
r is specified, any version can
be used. CDDL does not say thi
s; it seems to assume that it w
ill always be clear what versio
n CDDL code will be distributed
under, whereas GPL seems to as
sume otherwise.
●Bradley mentioned the interview
he did with The H Online on GPL enforcement. (41:57)
Tags: faif, GNU, GPL, FSF, licensing, copyright
December 18, 2012
Summary
Karen and Bradley discuss RMS' essay on
FSF's website, Ubuntu SpyWare: What To Do, and Shuttleworth's
Slashdot interview that responds somewhat to RMS' comments.
This show was released on Tuesday 18 December 2012; its
running time is 00:39:57.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:36)
●Karen and Bradley discuss RMS' essay on
FSF's website, Ubuntu SpyWare: What To Do (08:50)
●Bradley mentioned how Fab discovered (and discussed on Linux Outlaws 280) how a search
for “ter” in efforts to find a terminal window in Ubuntu yields
[slightly NSFW] gives results for Rachel Ter Horst
DVDs. (09:44)
●Bradley mentioned his
blog post about Nokia's problems interfacing with Free Software
communities. (14:50)
●Bradley and Karen discuss Shuttleworth's
Slashdot interview (18:25).
●Bradley and Karen also briefly mentioned Jono
Bacon's comments about RMS's essay and Jono's
apology. (19:30)
●Bradley mentioned Shuttleworth's
comments during his LinuxCon 2011 keynote. (20:14)
●Bradley mentioned Douglas
Rushkoff's article, Teach U.S. kids to write computer code
(29:30)
Tags: FSF
December 5, 2012
Summary
Karen and Bradley discuss the copyright
decision in the Oracle
vs. Google case.
This show was released on Wednesday 5 December 2012; its
running time is 00:32:38.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:33)
●Bradley mentioned the BPM for the human heart is
to the Bee Gee's song, STayin' Alive. (01:55)
●FaiF's bandwidth is provided by OSU-OSL. Please donate to OSU-OSL. (09:50)
●Bradley and Karen discuss the copyright
decision in the Oracle vs. Google case. (12:26)
●Bradley couldn't find quickly a full telling of the windings/SCO
font thing, but this
blog mentions it (29:34)
Tags: faif, copyright, Oracle
November 22, 2012
Summary
Karen gives an update on the advocacy of software freedom for
medical devices, while Bradley continually takes the show
off-topic.
This show was released on Thursday 22 November 2012; its
running time is 00:33:48.
Show Notes
●Bradley mentioned Jimmy Fallon's … And We're
Back script.
●Barnaby
Jack showed lethal attacks exist on wireless devices. (06:25)
●Karen previously
gave a talk about her heart condition on the show. (07:13)
●Hugo Campos,
who also works on this issue. (26:08)
●Bradley mentioned the Therac-25
software-related disaster. (29:30)
Tags: faif
October 10, 2012
Summary
Karen and Bradley play and discuss Richard Fontana's LinuxCon
North America 2012 talk, The Tragedy of the Commons
Gatekeepers.
This show was released on Wednesday 10 October 2012; its
running time is 01:13:39.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:33)
Bradley and Karen introduce Richard Fontana's talk.
Segment 1 (02:48)
Richard Fontana's slides are available
online, and there is also a well-written summary of the talk available on LWN.
Segment 2 (47:15)
Karen and Bradley discuss Fontana's talk.
September 27, 2012
Summary
Karen and Bradley play and discuss Matthew Garrett's talk,
Linux in a UEFI Secure Boot World talk from LinuxCon North
America 2012.
This show was released on Thursday 27 September 2012; its
running time is 01:05:28.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:34)
●Bradley mentioned that people at LinuxCon North America 2012 were talking
about this article, wherein it states 51% of survey respondents believe
[bad] weather can impact cloud computing. Bradley and Karen
pointed out all the many ways that it can, such as if your services
come via satellite links. (02:10)
●Bradley mentioned Matthew's talk might be best listened to
before our earlier FaiFCast 0x2d
about UEFI and Restricted Boot, as Matthew's talk is a very good
introduction to that material (07:01)
Segment 1 (08:43)
The slides
from Matthew Garrett's LinuxCon North America 2012 talk, Linux in
a UEFI Secure Boot World are available.
Segment 2 (51:35)
●Karen song a part of one of the OpenBSD songs, E-Railed (OpenBSD Mix). (01:00:35)
●Bradley mentioned Theo
de Raadt's comments regarding restricted boot. (01:00:44)
Tags: faif, conferences, Restricted Boot
September 14, 2012
Summary
Karen and Bradley interview Christopher Allan Webber of the GNU Mediagoblin project.
This show was released on Friday 14 September 2012; its
running time is 00:45:39.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:31)
Karen and Bradley introduce the interview.
Segment 0 (00:56)
●Karen and Bradley interview their guest, Christopher Allan Webber of the GNU Mediagoblin project.
●GNU Mediagoblin is licensed under the Affero GPL, but does
not require copyright assignment and the developers have no plans to
seek a proprietary licensing business.
●Bradley mentioned this
dent by Stephen Fry on identi.ca, but that was in fact not his last dent as Bradley said.
(21:50)
●GNU Mediagoblin is working on a fundraising video and will start a
new fundraising campaign soon.
●Chris discussed
this
comic about trolls that was part of the slides of
Chris' OSCON talk. (27:07)
●Chris mentioned the Open
Source Almost Everything essay from GitHub's founder. (28:30)
●Karen mentioned Mike Linksvayer's talk in
FaiF 0x2E. (39:00)
Segment 1 (43:36)
GNU Mediagoblin will be launching a fundraising campaign soon.
Check back here for details later!
Tags: faif, GNU, copyright, AGPL
August 28, 2012
Summary
Karen and Bradley discuss recent coverage of GNOME by the technology
press, and more generally issues and concerns with the technology
press.
This show was released on Tuesday 28 August 2012; its
running time is 00:56:31.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:44)
●Bradley couldn't find support for his claim about in the
can
, and Karen may be right.(01:15)
●Bradley mentioned that the GNOME Foundation negative press recently
is akin to what Harry
Reid did by stating rumors regarding Romney's taxes. (05:03)
●Karen mentioned the Debunking
Handbook that Germán
Póo-Caamaño mentioned to her. (06:30)
●Bradley mentioned the quote I d
o not think
[that word] means w
hat you think it means
from The
Princess Bride. (13:30)
●Karen mentioned the GNOME 15 year Anniversary
Site. (17:22)
●Bradley mentioned Dave
Neary's GNOME census, and quoted numbers from the census. (21:30)
●Bradley discussed Eazel, a company co-founded
by Andy
Hertzfeld. (23:03)
●Karen mentioned GNOME's Outreach Program for Women,
in which Conservancy participates. (25:34)
●Karen mentioned an
article that came out on the same day as this audcast. (30:30)
●Bradley mentioned that some research by evolutionary biologists
suggests language
may have developed for gossip (38:48). Bradley couldn't find
evidence easily online for the 80% is gossip claim on the audcase, but
did find an article talking about 65%
of human communication is gossip.
●Bradley mentioned the television series, The
Human Animal. (39:17)
●Bradley mentioned a thread
he recently posted in on the BusyBox mailing list. (50:32)
●Bradley mentioned that there are many
cognitive psychological biases. (51:11)
Tags: faif, gnome
August 14, 2012
Summary
Karen and Bradley discuss OSCON and GUADEC.
This show was released on Tuesday 14 August 2012; its
running time is 00:39:53.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:36)
●Bradley represents FSF on the GNOME Advisory
Board. (02:20)
●Bradley points out it's very dangerous when you can buy voting
rights of a 501(c)(3) by paying money, such as the structure of OSI.
Karen notes that contribution-based membership works very well for
GNOME. (03:50)
●Bradley is concerned about the future of OSI's license list now
that votes in OSI are for sale. (04:30)
●Bradley received an O'Reilly
Open Source Award at OSCON 2012. Bradley blogged an acceptance
speech for the award. (08:50)
●The
Python award and the Perl White Camel
award is also given at OSCON. (12:35)
●Karen mentioned FLOSS
Foundations, and asked if there was a meeting at OSCON. Bradley
mentioned it had been primarily rolled into Jono Bacon's CLS
conference. (15:10)
Segment 1 (17:56)
●Bradley wrote in a post about the GUADEC 2010 conference to note
how welcoming the community was. Karen described GUADEC 2012 as very
similar in nature. (21:25)
●Karen mentioned her husband Mike had a similar reaction to GUADEC
2012 that Bradley had to GUADEC 2010. (23:50)
Tags: faif, OSCON, conferences
July 17, 2012
Summary
Karen and Bradley play and discuss Mike
Linksvayer's FOSDEM 2012 talk, Creative
Commons 4.0 licenses and other opportunities for FLOSS/free culture
legal/policy intersections from the FOSDEM
2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom.
This show was released on Tuesday 17 July 2012; its
running time is 00:59:30.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:38)
Bradley and Karen suggest that you use the slides below when
listening to Mike's talk.
Segment 1 (05:51)
Mike Linksvayer's slides for this talk are available in PDF
format and in ODP
format.
Segment 2 (33:43)
Segment 3 (34:25)
A special licensing message from Mike Linksvayer.
Segment 4 (35:09)
●Karen mentioned Bradley's favorite movie, It's
a Wonderful Life.
●Bradley mentioned Asheesh Laroia,
who appears to never blogged about his CC/credit-card-thief freenode
confusion story. (48:00)
●Bradley mentioned Fontana's Copyleft.next project
. (50:00)
●Bradley mentioned the ST:TNG
episode, Unification,
Part II, although he kept calling it Reuni
fication
during the episode. Please don't write in to complain; he realized the error after recording. (54:39)
Tags: faif, Creative Commons, FOSDEM
July 5, 2012
Summary
Karen and Bradley discuss FSF's
announcementofFSF's
white paper on Restricted Boot, which critiques Red Hat's approach to
restricted boot for its Fedora distribution and Canonical,
Ltd.'s approach to restricted boot for its Ubuntu distribution.
This show was released on Thursday 5 July 2012; its
running time is 00:42:22.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:38)
●Karen mentioned it's useful that FSF avoids preloaded names.
Bradley used FSF's
criticism of the term “intellectual property” as an
example of why it's important to avoid biased terminology. (02:22)
●Karen suggested that listeners may want to read FSF's
white paper on Restricted Boot. (04:00)
●Bradley suggested also reading
the Fedora statement
and both Canonical,
Ltd. statements.
(04:37)
●Bradley and Karen mentioned the
many
blog
posts
Matthew
Garrett
made
about
UEFI
are
worth
reading
in
sequence
to
learn
more
about
this
issue. (13:21)
●Bradley mentioned that FSF
collaborated with the EFF on the broadcast flag
issue. (25:40)
●Alan
Cox made some critical posts toward Matthew and the Red Hat policy.
(20:50)
●Bradley mentioned this Ancient
Aliens from the History channel. (39:15)
Tags: faif, FSF, Restricted Boot
June 19, 2012
Summary
Karen and Bradley play and discuss Philippe
Laurent's FOSDEM 2012 talk, Open
Licences before European Courts from the FOSDEM
2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom.
This show was released on Tuesday 19 June 2012; its
running time is 00:44:07.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:36)
Karen and Bradley mention there is one talk remaining after this one
from the FOSDEM
2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom.
Segment 1 (03:04)
Philippe's slides
are available from faif.us. Note: the slides are licensed
differently than the show: they are CC-By-SA-3.0-Unported (rather than -USA).
Segment 2 (32:22)
●Bradley mentioned FSF France's
involvement with the AFPA case. (37:30)
Tags: faif, GPL, copyright, conferences, FOSDEM
June 5, 2012
Summary
Karen and Bradley interview Deb NicholsonofOpen Invention Network,
GNU MediaGoblin and Open Hatch.
This show was released on Tuesday 5 June 2012; its
running time is 00:48:12.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:36)
●Karen announced
her pregnancy. (01:50)
●Bradley will be at OSCON, Karen might be, and Karen will be at
GUADEC. Bradley will be at LinuxCon North America and LinuxCon
Europe. (03:00)
Segment 1 (04:40)
●Deb Nicholson was previously on the show as Episode 0x25: FOSDEM 2012
Patents Panel. (06:00)
●Deb mentioned Linux
System Definition, which is the OIN-published list of things that
OIN members license their patents to each other on. (07:12)
●Deb and Bradley are debating Bradley's comment regarding Deb's
points on the panel on 0x25. If you go back to listen to 0x25, the
context for the comment they're debating starts around 38:00 in
0x25. (19:20)
●It's possible etymology
of the verb “to harp” may indeed come from the musical
instrument, not harpy. (31:00)
●Karen mentioned The Ada
Initiative. (32:52)
Segment 2 (38:54)
Bradley and Karen talk about plans for upcoming shows.
Tags: faif, GNU, patents
May 29, 2012
Summary
Karen and Bradley discuss Software Freedom Conservancy's
announcement
regarding its coordinated license compliance program.
This show was released on Tuesday 29 May 2012; its
running time is 00:32:53.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:36)
Karen and Bradley discuss Software Freedom Conservancy's
announcement
regarding its coordinated license compliance program.
Tags: faif, GPL, licensing, non-profit, copyright
May 22, 2012
Summary
Karen and Bradley play and discuss Richard
Fontana's Linux Collaboration Summit 2012 talk, The Decline of
the GPL, and What To Do About It.
This show was released on Tuesday 22 May 2012; its
running time is 01:19:27.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:36)
Karen mentioned a legal summit
where Richard and Karen spoke; the same event where the organizers said
having Bradley speak would be the same as having the caterers
speak.
Segment 1 (04:46)
Fontana's slides for
this talk are available on Fontana's website.
Note that this talk is a longer version of
Ricahrd
Fontana's FOSDEM 2012 talk, The
(possible) decline of the GPL, and what to do about it from
the FOSDEM
2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom.
Segment 2 (57:24)
Bradley and Karen discuss Fontana's talk.
Tags: faif, GPL, licensing, copyright, Richard Fontana, LibreOffice, OpenOffice, Oracle, conferences
May 8, 2012
Summary
Karen and Bradley play and discuss Loïc
Dachary's FOSDEM 2012 talk, Can
for-profit companies enforce copyleft without becoming corrupt like
MySQL AB? from the FOSDEM
2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom.
This show was released on Tuesday 8 May 2012; its
running time is 00:56:01.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:35)
Bradley and Karen discuss FOSDEM again.
Segment 1 (10:10)
Unfortunately, we don't have Loïc's slides.
Segment 2 (32:03)
Bradley and Karen comment on Loïc's talk.
Tags: faif, GPL, licensing, FOSDEM
April 25, 2012
Summary
Karen and Bradley play and discuss Allison
Randal's FOSDEM 2012 talk, FLOSSing
for Good Legal Hygiene: Stories from the Trenches from the
FOSDEM
2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom.
This show was released on Wednesday 25 April 2012; its
running time is 01:04:56.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:35)
Bradley talked about the #faif IRC conversation regarding hot milk recipe and its
copyright. (01:54)
Segment 1 (07:10)
Allison's slides
are available from faif.us.
Segment 2 (35:00)
●Karen and Bradley discussed the insanely
complicated poster that Eclipse developers have to put on their walls
to know how to accept patches (37:40)
●RMS's GNU
Project essay talks about the Qt problem. (39:16)
●Bradley mentioned Chris Hertel's
appearance on Linux Outlaws.(44:25)
●Karen mentioned The
Scientific American article entitled Secret Computer
Code Threatens Science. (54:00)
●Bradley mentioned Roland McGrath
(56:44)
Tags: faif, GPL, licensing, conferences, FOSDEM
April 13, 2012
Summary
Karen and Bradley play and discuss Michael
Meeks's FOSDEM 2012 talk, Risks
and Benefits of Copyright Assignment from the FOSDEM
2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom.
This show was released on Friday 13 April 2012; its
running time is 00:47:19.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:35)
Bradley and Karen introduce Michael's talk.
Segment 1 (01:56)
Michael's slides
are available from faif.us and from his
blog post on the talk.
Segment 2 (26:47)
●Bradley mentioned GNU
Mediagoblin as an example of a true upstream multi-copyright-holder
AGPLv3'd
project. (28:10)
●Bradley mentioned that LibreOffice is “wealthy” as well
by Michael Meeks standards, given their successful
fundraisers. (29:38)
●Bradley mentioned the Desktop
Summit panel that he and Michael were on and Karen moderated.
(34:06)
●Bradley and
Michael co-authored (with Vincent Untz) the GNOME Copyright Assignment
Guidelines. (35:30)
●FSF was
previously supportive of MySQL AB back in 2002, but Michael also
used to support the Sun JCA. (38:20)
Tags: faif, licensing, copyright, FOSDEM
March 29, 2012
Summary
Karen and Bradley play and discuss Panel on
Patents, moderated by Karen Sandler, with Ciarán O'Riordan, Benjamin Henrion, and Deb Nicholson
from the FOSDEM
2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom.
This show was released on Thursday 29 March 2012; its
running time is 00:48:59.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:35)
●This American Life issued a
retraction of the story we mentioned on 0x24.
This American Life released a transcriptormp3
of the audio of the retraction. (02:21)
●Karen and Bradley introduce the panel.
Segment 1 (03:58)
This is the recording of the panel. Some of the questions aren't
completely audible, but Dan did a pretty good job boosting it in
places.
Segment 2 (32:21)
●IBM's amicus
brief in Bilski clearly shows that IBM is pro-software
patent. (33:48)
●The Linux
System Definition which defines the only patents available
for licensing by OIN licensees, was unilaterally updated recently
without consulting the Free Software community.
●Keith
Bergelt of OIN will speak at Linux Collaboration 2012 on the Legal
track, which Bradley is chairing (35:29)
●OIN
is a for-profit company. (37:54)
●IBM
has attacked Free Software projects with patents, such as
TurboHercules (39:22)
●IBM
is the largest software patent holder in the world. (44:27)
●Red Hat refuses to grant a patent license for patent use in Free
software, they have only a weak promise
that allows them to sell of patents to others who may enforce against
Free Software projects, or which could be revoked. (46:26)
Tags: faif, licensing, Richard Fontana, IBM, patents
March 13, 2012
Summary
Karen and Bradley play and discuss Panel on
Application Stores, moderated by Richard
Fontana, with Giovanni
Battista Gallus, Bradley
M. Kuhn, and Hugo Roy
from the FOSDEM
2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom.
This show was released on Tuesday 13 March 2012; its
running time is 00:47:28.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:34)
Karen and Bradley introduce the panel.
Segment 1 (02:15)
This is the recording of the panel. Some of the questions aren't
completely audible, but Dan did a pretty good job boosting it in
places.
Segment 2 (35:04)
●Bradley mentioned This
American Life, Episode 454, that covered issues of labor that is
abused to build our electronics. You can read
a transcriptordownload
an mp3 of the audio. (43:27)
Tags: faif, conferences, FOSDEM
February 28, 2012
Summary
Karen and Bradley play and discuss John Sullivan's talk
entitled Is Copyleft Being Framed? from the FOSDEM
2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom.
This show was released on Tuesday 28 February 2012; its
running time is 00:56:19.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:34)
●Dave Neary wrote an
article based on his FOSDEM talk, and we're trying our best to fix
the audio and have a FaiFCast of his talk, but it may not be
salvagable.
Segment 1 (06:35)
●Follow along with John's slides
from his FOSDEM talk.
Segment 1 (37:23)
●John referenced the source Black Duck
numbers for which there is no methodology posted (38:30)
●Bradley mentioned Chris
DiBona's keynote at OSCON 2010. (39:14)
●John mentioned the FLOSS Mole project in
his talk. (42:50)
Tags: faif, conferences, FOSDEM
February 14, 2012
Summary
Karen and Bradley play and discuss Ambjörn Elder's talk
entitled Methods
of FOSS Activism from the FOSDEM
2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom.
This show was released on Tuesday 14 February 2012; its
running time is 00:44:44.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:35)
Bradley and Karen summarize some of the logistics of FOSDEM.
Segment 1 (08:08)
You can follow along with Ambjörn's slides for his talk while you listen.
Segment 2 (24:04)
●Bradley mentioned Terry
Bollinger's report,
Use of Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the
U.S. Department of Defense. (26:13)
●Karen quoted the USA DoD in her Killed
by Code paper. (28:04)
●EFF
has engaged lobbyist in the past on some issues. (29:58)
●Bradley mentioned Noam
Chomsky's point regarding concision.
(35:32)
Tags: faif, conferences, FOSDEM
January 31, 2012
Summary
Bradley and Karen discuss Jacob Appelbaum's talk at Linux Conf
Australia 2012, as well as other conference talks.
This show was released on Tuesday 31 January 2012; its
running time is 00:38:58.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:35)
●Bradley spoke at SCALE, but the talk was very similar to the talk given on 0x18. (07:15)
●Karen's talk at LCA was a longer version of the talk from 0x15 she gave at
OSCON. Listeners should write in if they want Karen's longer talk
to be a show (07:30).
●Bradley will try to record some
of the talks from the Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom at FOSDEM 2012 (07:55)
●Bradley mentioned the
Red Dwarf episode, Legion where Rimmer says:
Thank you for listen
ing. Oh, additional: sorry to
take up your
valuable time.
Sorry. Thank you. Sorry. Bye.
Bye. Sorry. Thank
you. Thank
you. Thank you.
(12:12)
●Bradley asked if the crickets in Australia sang Jump Around, since
Karen said they jump around (15:45)
Segment 0 (18:51)
●Karen liked Jacob
Appelbaum's keynote at Linux Conf Australia 2012 (19:20)
●Bradley mentioned Harald Welte's
blog post about running his own email server (23:45)
●Bradley mentioned Ken Thompson's
bug (34:03)
Tags: faif, security, conferences
January 17, 2012
Summary
Bradley and Karen discuss issues of gender inequality in the
software freedom community and technology generally.
This show was released on Tuesday 17 January 2012; its
running time is 00:47:17.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:38)
●Bradley and Karen discuss issues of gender inequality in the
software freedom community and technology generally.
●Bradley wrote
a blog post a while back noting that issues of gender inequality
are technology-sector-wide, as shown on
PDF page 10 of this study. However, Bradley incorrectly remembered
the study: in fact, all levels of academic computer science are (23:19)
●Karen got a 5 on our Calculus AB exam, even though her teacher told
her only boys were good at math. Bradley also got a 5 on the Calculus
AB exam. (27:06)
●Bradley believes that Stand and
Deliver. (29:37)
●Bradley is sure there is no Calculus in Good Will
Hunting (30:08)
●Bradley mentioned that S05E11
of American Greed contained an rsync output on a
Debian system and Python DBUS binding C code as “code cracking
examples” (31:00)
●Miguel de
Icaza had a cameo in the file Antitrust.
(33:27)
●Bradley mentioned that Craig Mundie keynoted
OSCON (38:55)
●Bradley mentioned the USENIX/Freenix to Perl Conference to OSCON
history (42:50)
●Karen mentioned the GNOME
Marketing MeetingatFOSDEM
2012. (43:27)
●Karen is speaking at
Linux Conf Australia on 19 January 2012,BradleyisspeakingatScale 10x, the 2012
Southern California Linux Expo (44:16)
Tags: faif, gender
January 8, 2012
Summary
Karen and Bradley discuss the various private Free Software legal
fora and consider if a more open community for discussion might be
better, and also discuss the just-ended CFP for the FOSDEM Legal and
Policy Issues Dev Room.
This show was released on Sunday 8 January 2012; its
running time is 00:37:57.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:37)
●Bradley and Karen were discussing the NYS charities filing
requirements for auditing and limited review, as can be seen NYS CHAR-500
instructions, on page 5 of 6, §V(6) . (03:02)
●Bradley and Karen mentioned the old show, SFLS
0x19, where they discussed Conservancy's
FY 2008 Form 990. (03:27)
●Bradley mentioned he still works at a cow-orking
facility (04:15)
●Bradley mentioned that various charity rating sites like Charity
Navigator and GuideStar. (05:58)
●Bradley mentioned Lawrence Welk
(09:50)
●Bradley is speaking on GPL
enfoircement at SCALE 10x.
●keynoting on Thursday
19 January 2012atLinux Conf
Australia 2012.
●Bradley doesn't like the Chatham House
Rule. (20:30)
Tags: faif
December 16, 2011
Summary
Karen and Bradley discuss recent debates about the value of
non-profit organizations for Free Software.
This show was released on Friday 16 December 2011; its
running time is 00:44:33.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:34)
●Fontana
(and other Red Hat employees) pointed out some imprecision in what
Bradley said in Episode
0x1D about Debian non-free. (01:07)
●Acall for
participation has been
announced for the Legal
and Policy Issues DevRoomatFOSDEM 2012. Please submit a
proposal by 30 December 2011 (04:30)
●A recent debate about non-profits started, initiated by a blog post
called Apache
Considered Harmful. (12:55)
●Karen and Bradley briefly mentioned that some now believe
that Considered Harmful Considered Harmful
(13:16)
●A long thread on this issue occurred on the FLOSS Foundations mailing
list (13:45)
●Bradley made an official Conservancy Blog post about the value of
non-profits for Free Software (14:17)
●Sourceforge
became proprietary software in 2001, as is well-described in this
by The Sourceforge
proprietarization debacle is well described in an article by Loïc
Dachary. (19:19)
●Bradley mentioned FaiFCast Episode 0x11,
which discussed the OpenOffice.org/Apache/LibreOffice
situation. (44:35)
●Bradley pointed out that this debate conflates a lot of different
issues, and tried to list all the conflated questions here:
●Should a non-profit home decide what technical infrastructure is
used for a software freedom project? And if so, what should it be?
●If the projects doesn't provide technological services, should
non-profits allow their projects to rely on for-profits for
technological or other services?
●Should a non-profit home set political and social positions that
must be followed by the projects? If so, how strictly should they be
enforced?
●Should copyrights be held by the non-profit home of the project, or
with the developers, or a mix of the two?
●Should the non-profit dictate licensing requirements on the
project? If so, how many licenses are ok?
●Should a non-profit dictate strict copyright provenance
requirements on their projects? If not, should the non-profit at least
provide guidelines and recommendations?
Tags: FSF, non-profit, Richard Fontana
November 29, 2011
Summary
Karen interviews Stefano Zacchiroli, who is the current Debian
Project Leader. Karen and Bradley discuss their thoughts on that
interview.
This show was released on Tuesday 29 November 2011; its
running time is 00:38:51.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:36)
●Karen interviewed Stefano
Zacchiroli, who is the current Debian Project Leader.
(02:59)
Segment 1 (03:58)
●Stefano was inspired by a professor at his university to get
involved with Free Software, because you can study the
sources. (04:50)
●DPL reelection is in April each year. (08:40)
●Stefano discovered that some Debian derivatives weren't
distributing source packages. He's helped them get into compliance,
although Stefano hesitates to call it enforcement. (12:40)
●Stefano mentioned that many Debian contributors begin contributing
upstream to Debian after contributing to derivatives of Debian
first. (15:20)
●Stefano thinks the adoption of Free Software on the desktop is
shrinking, and many users are using proprietary software
“cloud” services. (19:00)
●Stefano thinks that GPL is not enough to defend our software
freedom, and that AGPL can do it but it came a bit late. (20:20)
●Stefano is concerned about companies like Google that can
reimplement an entire software system merely to avoid
copyleft. (20:40)
Segment 2 (21:04)
●Bradley mentioned that moving a package to non-free is a powerful
tool that Debian has to deal with licensing situations (21:40)
●Bradley noted that the Debian ftpmasters make decisions about
licensing, but it has not been historically well documented. It seems that fact is now
well documented. (27:30)
Tags: faif, GPL, Debian
November 11, 2011
Summary
Karen interviews Adam Dingle of Yorba, and Bradley and Karen briefly
discuss the interview.
This show was released on Friday 11 November 2011; its
running time is 00:51:23.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:33)
●The interview is with Adam
DingleofYorba.
(02:30)
Segment 1 (02:45)
●Yorba was founded in January
2009. (04:01)
●Yorba applied for 501(c)(3) status nearly two years ago and the
application is still pending in the queue (the same delay queue we
discussed in Episode
0x13. (28:30)
●Adam mentioned Yorba's donation
page. (30:13)
Segment 2 (41:08)
●Karen mentioned that Yorba's response to the IRS should be
published soon. (41:35)
●Bradley mentioned Cat
Allman's Fundraising 101 talk from OSCON. (43:30)
Tags: faif, non-profit, Form 1023
October 25, 2011
Summary
Bradley and Karen discuss their jobs, particularly fundraising, and
plans for future shows.
This show was released on Tuesday 25 October 2011; its
running time is 00:31:47.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:36)
●The Google Summer of Code Program is
large philanthropic program by Google for students to write Free
Software in the summer.
●Bradley gave a talk
about non-profit organizations at the Google SoC Mentor
Summit 2011
●Karen mentioned the GNOME
Women's Outreach Program, which coordinates with the SoC, and the
Season
of KDE. (09:36)
●Conservancy's Amarok, Mercurial and PyPy projects
are all currently doing fundraising programs (14:38)
●Bradley will give two
talks
at LinuxCon Europe this week. (15:15)
●Karen will attend the Ubuntu Developer Summit. (20:20)
●Karen will speak in Latvia later this year. (24:20)
●Richard Fontana discussed RMS' quote about Jobs on
identi.ca (26:27)
Segment 1 (29:28)
●We'll try to record some talks/interviews at upcoming events.
Tags: faif, non-profit
October 11, 2011
Summary
Bradley and Karen discuss the various news and comments on
Steve Jobs' death and his legacy, and their own thoughts on the
issue.
This show was released on Tuesday 11 October 2011; its
running time is 00:52:17.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:36)
●Bradley still hasn't made the blog post he keeps saying he'll make
about one year at Conservancy. (01:30
●Bradley mentioned the character Cat from Red Dwarf's
obsession with “shiny things” in the episode Waiting
for God. (20:23)
Segment 1 (21:12)
●Karen mentioned Paula Rooney's article Steve
Jobs: an open source pioneer? You bet, which Bradley pointed out
was a pure link-bait. (21:20)
●Bradley mention Andy
Rooney has retired (32:10)
Segment 1 (33:40)
●Bradley mentioned
RMS' comments on Steve Jobs' death (34:09)
●Bradley mentioned the gawker
article that was critical of Steve Jobs
●Bradley mentioned a comment that discussed how RMS'
lack of tact can help software freedom. (40:43)
Tags: faif
September 28, 2011
Summary
Karen and Bradley discuss the GNOME 3.2 release, Karen interviews
Jos Poortvliet, Bradley complains about identi.ca web interface and
they discuss together UEFI “secure” boot, and the PyPy
Python 3 campaign.
This show was released on Wednesday 28 September 2011; its
running time is 00:48:46.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:40)
●Bradley wrote
a blog post about how GNOME 3 is not for him.
Segment 1 (07:14)
●Karen interviewed Jos
Poortvliet
Segment 2 (21:04)
●Bradley mentioned Shaun
McCance's post to desktop-devel about response bias, which he
posted on user survey thread. (25:04)
●Karen mentioned that GNOME 3.2 has
been released with new features, such as better window
resizing. (28:57)
●Bradley pointed out that gnats was one of the earliest
Free Software bug tracking systems. (30:37)
Segment 3 (31:53)
●Bradley mentioned that he feels like the
unfrozen caveman lawyer when trying to use identi.ca now. (32:54)
●Bradley mentioned Matthew Garrett's blog
post about UEFI so-called “secure” booting. (37:36)
●PyPy is trying to raise
funds to support Python 3 on PyPy. (41:20)
Tags: faif, novell, gnome
September 13, 2011
Summary
Bradley and Karen play a speech recording of Bradley's presentation
at OSCON 2011, entitled 12 Years of FLOSS License Compliance: A
Historical Perspective.
This show was released on Tuesday 13 September 2011; its
running time is 00:57:19.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:36)
●Bradley mentioned that time travel requires special
verb tenses according to the Douglas Adams'
book, The
Restaurant at the End of the Universe. (01:48)
●Bradley gave a keynote at
Ohio Linux Fest 2011 (01:58)
Segment 1 (05:02)
●This segment is a recording of Bradley's OSCON
2011 talk, entitled 12 Years of Copyleft License Compliance: A
Historical Perspective. The slides are
available on Bradley's website so you can follow along during the
talk if you like.
●There is a live denting identi.ca thread from
Bradley's talk. (03:50)
●Bradley
wrote a blog post about a minor GPL violation in the Emacs
codebase. It has since
been fixed.
●RMS mentioned the NeXT/Objective C GPL violation in his essay, Copyleft:
Pragmatic Idealism.
Segment 2 (52:35)
●Bradley will be speaking at the Google Summer of Code Mentor
Summit 2011 and at LinuxCon
Europe 2011. (55:05)
Tags: faif, GPL, licensing, copyright
August 30, 2011
Summary
Bradley and Karen play a speech recording of Richard Fontana's
presentation at OSCON 2011, entitled Contributor Agreements
Considered Harmful.
Note: this show and the slides from Richard Fontana are licensed
under CC-By-SA-3.0
USA. This will be the new license of the show for this and future
episodes.
This show was released on Tuesday 30 August 2011; its
running time is 01:03:49.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:34)
●This show is a recording of Richard Fontana's talk Contributor
Agreements Considered Harmful. (03:13)
Segment 1 (03:34)
●Richard Fontana has made his slides from his talk
available on his website.
●Bradley
live-dented Fontana's talk from OSCON.
●Richard Fontana references Michael
Meeks' essay, Some thoughts on Copyright Assignment
(29:55)
Segment 2 (45:17)
●Bradley and Karen were on a panel discussion on copyright
assignment at Desktop Summit. (45:33)
●Bradley mentioned that Mark Shuttleworth's
obsession with cadence had a similar weird effect on a different
debate. (58:30)
●Karen has done some pro bono work for
PubPat, and also Question
Copyright (01:01:30)
Tags: novell, copyright, Richard Fontana
August 16, 2011
Summary
Bradley and Karen play and comment on a talk recording of Aaron Williamson's and
Karen's presentation at OSCON 2011, entitled Legal Basics for
Developers.
This show was released on Tuesday 16 August 2011; its
running time is 00:53:53.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:33)
●Bradley mentioned the birthday attack
when explaining to Karen how likely it might be that the number of the
show might match the number of the day. (01:38)
●This show is a recording of Aaron
and Karen's OSCON 2011 talk, Legal Basics for
Developers. (02:20)
Segment 1 (05:53)
●The slides
for the Legal Basics for Developers are available to follow
along with the recording (05:53)
Segment 2 (49:36)
●Richard Fontana gave at a talk at OSCON as well, which was
recorded, and Karen and Bradley have asked for his permission to play
it. (50:45)
●Bradley asked folks to ping Richard on identi.ca to ask him to
allow us to use his audio on the oggcast. (51:05)
Tags: faif, copyright
August 2, 2011
Summary
Karen and Bradley discuss Karen's OSCON keynote and her 2011
O'Reilly Open Source Award, as well as other happenings from OSCON.
This show was released on Tuesday 2 August 2011; its
running time is 00:36:27.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:35)
●Bradley and Karen just returned from the 2011 O'Reilly Open Source
Software Convention (OSCON). (00:45)
●Karen received one of the 2011
O'Reilly Open Source Awards. (Video of the award
ceremony is online.) (03:05)
●Karen now has a blog called
GNOMG. (05:03)
●Karen's wrote a blog
post about winning the 2011 Open Source Award. (03:47)
●Karen now has a redirector to her blog via gnomg.org. (05:42)
●Listener Michael Dexter let Bradley stay at his house for part of
the time of OSCON, and Bradley later shared a room with listener
Richard Fontana. (06:40)
Segment 1 (10:22)
●Karen keynoted
at OSCON, entitled Software Freedom: From my Heart to the
Desktop. (10:22)
●Bradley had a
live-denting thread of Karen's keynote at OSCON 2011.
●Karen's 2011
OSCON keynote is available YouTube. You can also hear the audio on
the show itself, but if you prefer video, use the preceding link. If
you watch instead of listen, just skip the audio in the oggcast up to
Segment 2 below:
Segment 2 (24:49)
●Bradley mentioned conferences can be ephemeral on his blog about
GUADEC 2010. (28:25)
●Bradley and Karen are about to go to the Desktop
Summit. (29:15)
●Bradley,
Michael Meeks and Mark Shuttleworth will be on a panel on copyright
assignment moderated by Karen. (29:25)
Tags: faif, OSCON
July 19, 2011
Summary
Karen and Bradley briefly discuss and play Bradley's keynote at the
Sixth
Annual OpenFOAM Conference.
This show was released on Tuesday 19 July 2011; its
running time is 01:04:03.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:38)
●Bradley spoke at the Sixth
Annual OpenFOAM workshop. (01:42)
Segment 1 (03:20)
●Follow along with Bradley's
slides from his talk at the Sixth Annual OpenFOAM Workshop
(03:22)
●The sources
for the slides is available.
Segment 2 (53:12)
●Karen and Bradley discussed the talk.
●Bill
Gates' arrest in New Mexico (Bradley incorrectly said Nevada) is
discussed in Gates' Wikipedia entry. (55:20)
●Bradley mentioned the made-for-TV movie The
Pirates of Silicon Valley. (56:26)
Tags: faif, GPL, licensing, copyright
July 5, 2011
Summary
Karen and Bradley discuss the USAmerican legal system in regard to
torts, and the current delays from the USA IRS on 501(c)(3) non-profit
applications (i.e., Form 1023s).
This show was released on Tuesday 5 July 2011; its
running time is 00:39:49.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:48)
●Billy Crook wrote in to make a good joke about 0x12 being the last
episode available in other RSS feeds. (Don't forget the right RSS feed
is at faif.us.)
●Karen calls tortes
delicious pa
stries
.
●Bradley saw a documentary
called Hot Coffee, which discussed the idea of tort deform. (03:35, 05:45)
●Bradley mentioned that Karl
Rove, George W. Bush's political operative, was involved in early tort
“reform”. (06:54)
●Brendan Scott is a lawyer in Australia, who has published about GPL
enforcement and writes
a blog about legal issues related to Open Source and Free Software
(11:58)
Segment 1 (12:50)
●Bradley talked about 501(c)(3) status and Form 1023s in his interview on FLOSS
weekly. (13:50)
●Around 2010, applications for Free Software non-profits' 501(c)(3)
status started to be delayed, according to independent evidence that
Karen and Bradley have collected from the IRS and the community of
non-profits. (16:20)
●Form
1023s are the applications you file with the IRS (17:15)
●As far as we know, no applications have been refused yet for a
Free Software non-profit, but there seem to be extremely long
delays. (18:40)
●Bradley mentioned a blog post from the
Executive Director of CASH Music, where he talked about their Form
1023 being delayed. (19:10)
●Karen has confirmed with IRS agents that this process of
applications does not impact existing non-profits
currently. (21:00)
●Bradley pointed out that COBOL jobs are still very
prevalent. Bradley even found a website dedicated only to COBOL
jobs. (36:18)
●After we recorded, Simon
Phipps posted a blog post quoting Bradley about the issue
.
Tags: faif, non-profit, tort, Form 1023
June 21, 2011
Summary
Karen announces her new job, and Bradley and Karen discuss the
recent USA Supreme Court decisions on patents.
Be sure to make sure you're subscribed to feeds available
on faif.us if you haven't already!
This show was released on Tuesday 21 June 2011; its
running time is 00:54:31.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:37)
●If you have not moved your RSS feed already away from
softwarefreedom.org, and to faif.us, you
should do that now! Here's links to the ogg RSS feed and mp3 RSS feed. New FaiF shows
won't appear on softwarefreedom.org.
●Karen
is now the Executive Director of the GNOME Foundation. (04:30)
●Bradley served on the GNOME
Foundation Executive Director Hiring Committee, but resigned when Karen became a serious
candidate. (05:13)
●Karen will continue as General Counsel of Question
Copyright, and pro-bono counsel to Software Freedom Conservancy, and
will also continue pro bono on some matters for SFLC. (06:30)
●Bradley has been working
on GNU
Bash. (07:34)
●Berlin's Tegel
airport is closing soon. (14:40)
●Bradley mentioned that he incorrectly said in 0x11 that Red Hat
doesn't provide sources publicly for RHEL. The RHEL SRPMS
are actually on Red Hat's FTP site. (18:20)
●There are various identica
threads on the RHEL issue from 0x11.(18:47)
●Bradley has previously explained the history of the term
“punditocracy” in episode 0x0A. (27:46)
Segment 1 (28:58)
●Bradley and Karen discuss the USA Supreme
Court decision in the Global-Tech Appliances, Inc. v. SEB
S. A. case, on which SFLC
submitted an amicus brief, which was previously discussed in FaiF Episode
0x05. (29:55)
●Bradley and Karen discuss the USA
Supreme Court decision in the Microsoft Corp. v. i4i
Ltd. Partnership case, on which the EFF submitted an
amicus brief. (40:11)
Tags: licensing, patents, gnome
June 7, 2011
Summary
Dan Lynch (filling in for Karen)
and Bradley discuss a few examples
where licensing decisions by companies impacts the health of the
software development community.
This show was released on Tuesday 7 June 2011; its
running time is 01:24:34.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:00:36)
●Dan interviewed the CentOS developers on FLOSS Weekly. (00:05:52)
●Bradley has a blog
post that describes RHEL licensing model. His
previous blog post to that one, while mostly off-topic here, has a
few points of interest. (00:10:36)
●Dan Lynch mentioned The Smoking Man
from the The X
Files television series. (00:17:22)
●Bradley mentioned that Lennart Poettering is a
Red Hat employee working on systemd,
which is now in
Fedora, but not in RHEL yet (as far as we know). (00:18:53)
●Bradley suggested that developers starting projects read Karsten
Wade's The Open
Source Way, and Karl Fogel's Producing Open Source Software:
How to Run a Successful Free Software Project, and Bradley's
blog post about
developing in public. (00:22:16)
●Dan and Bradley briefly discussed copyright abolition. Dan
mentioned Stallman's
writing on the Pirate Party's copyright positions.
Segment 1 (00:32:30)
●Bradley briefly discussed the history of
StarOffice, and the creation of
OpenOffice.org. (00:33:40)
●Bradley explained issues related to the LibreOffice
fork of OpenOffice.org. (00:37:30)
●Bradley has talked about how proprietary
relicensing is very dangerous (00:39:50)
●Fedora,
Ubuntu, and OpenSUSE
all switched to LibreOffice as a default. Bradley didn't know at
recording time that the OpenOffice
package in wheezy is a transition package to switch to LibreOffice. (00:41:24)
●Bradley and Dan mentioned a
blog post by IBM's Rob Weir that misquotes the FSF to support IBM's
positions on the OO.o relicensing issue. (00:58:26)
●Bradley mentioned the idea that Apache-2.0 work can be relicensed
under LGPLv3-or-later, as he
discussed in his blog post about the OO.o relicensing
(01:00:45)
●Dan mentioned Jeremy Allison's comment
on the aforementioned post on Rob Weir's blog. (01:02:08)
Segment 2 (01:16:09)
Bradley thanked Dan, on behalf of Karen, for all his work to make
Free as in Freedom possible.
Tags: faif, novell, commercial, licensing, copyright, LGPL, LibreOffice, OpenOffice, Oracle, IBM
May 24, 2011
Summary
Dan Lynch (filling in for Karen) and Bradley play and discuss
Matthew Garrett's talk GPL
Violations: What Are We Doing? (aka Linux License
Violations) from the Linux Collaboration Summit 2011.
If you want to listen to only the off-topic parts of this oggcast, please download the FaiF 0x10 Off-Topic Remix.
This show was released on Tuesday 24 May 2011; its
running time is 01:24:10.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:34)
●FaiF Producer Dan Lynch is filling in for Karen
as co-host this week. (00:43)
●Karen got married on the day
Dan and Bradley recorded the oggcast. (01:03)
●Dan is also known as the co-host of Linux Outlaws, host of Rat Hole Radio, and occasional co-host of FLOSS Weekly. (02:05)
●Bradley mentioned Dick
Van Dyke's admission (06:56)
Segment 1 (08:05)
●This segment is Matthew Garrett's talk GPL
Violations: What Are We Doing? (aka Linux License
Violations) from the Linux Collaboration Summit 2011.
●Matthew Garrett released the slides
from his talk which you can follow along with during the talk.
Segment 2 (51:29)
●Bradley mentioned that Matthew is particularly interested in the GPL violations
on Android/Linux devices that he's found. (52:57)
●Bradley mentioned Greg
Kroah-Hartman's GPL enforcement against Microsoft, which Bradley
also blogged
about a few years ago. (55:51)
●Dan asked Bradley about DMCA usage in GPL enforcement. Bradley
explained that there is a process called DMCA
takedown that Matthew was discussing. (57:30)
●Dan and Bradley discussed the Linux
Foundation Open Compliance Program. (1:05:05)
●Bradley mentions that he is completely opposed to criminal
penalties for copyright infringement, and mentioned his ACTA commenting
blog post. (1:12:13)
●Bradley and Dan discussed the Sony
DVD rootkit. (1:15:17)
●
Karen's
wedding
invitation
got
some
press
since
it
was a
working
record
player.
(1:16:58)
●Karen and Mike's wedding song is at the end of the oggcast, but you
can also download the
song from the wedding
website. (1:21:08)
Tags: faif, GPL, licensing, copyright
May 10, 2011
Summary
This episode is a recording of Jeremy Allison's talk, Why
Samba Switched to GPLv3 from the 2011
Linux Collaboration Summit, with some commentary from Bradley and
Karen on the talk.
This show was released on Tuesday 10 May 2011; its
running time is 01:00:51.
Show Notes
Ironically (or perhaps appropriately), Bradley was at Samba XP with
Jeremy the day this show was released. So, there he wasn't able to get
show notes together in detail for this show.
However, Jeremy's slides
from the talk are available (in PDF), and also ODP
format. So, you can follow along with it in the talk.
Also, you may be interested to read Bradley live-dent'd
Jeremy's talk, so the discussion there might be useful to read as
well.
Tags: faif, GPL, licensing
April 26, 2011
Summary
This episode is a recording of Richard Fontana's talk, Open Source Projects and
Corporate Entanglement from the 2011
Linux Collaboration Summit, with some commentary from Bradley and
Karen on the talk.
This show was released on Tuesday 26 April 2011; its
running time is 01:02:48.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:34)
●Bradley is still recovering from a rhinovirus which he
didn't take care of and also made him sicker, which explains the
problems with his voice. In fact, the coughing in the background during
Fontana's talk is all Bradley. He apologizes. (00:50)
●This show is Richard Fontana's Linux
Collaboration Summit 2011 talk, Open Source Projects and
Corporate Entanglement. (03:24)
Segment 1 (03:48)
●Richard Fontana's
slides for his talk, Open Source Projects and Corporate
Entanglement are available on his website. (04:29)
●Bradley was live-denting
Fontana's LCS talk. (04:31)
●Richard Fontana is the purveyor of the disturbing group on
identi.ca. (04:30)
●Fontana makes reference to a Bradley's
blog post on switching back to Debian from Ubuntu. (05:55)
●Fontana pointed out
that the GNU Manifesto deals a lot with how
Free Software is completely compatible with many business models.
(12:30)
●Fontana pointed out
that many of the relationships between companies in Free software
have great variability in level of transparency. (16:00)
●In the background, you hear Bradley saying something. He's giving
Josh Berkus credit for the phrase throw code over the wall
, a
phrase which both Fontana and Bradley now use regularly. (32:28)
Segment 2 (48:25)
●Fontana
made an interesting analogy to commissioned art and its similarity
to FLOSS. (50:33)
●Fontana noted later on
identica that he does support non-profit as solution to entanglement
problem. (54:48)
●Bradley mentioned the 60
Minutes story about Mortenson's Central Asia Institute (CAI). (55:30)
●Fontana now talking
about GE/NBC relationship, but Bradley was surprised that Fontana
didn't mention Ben
Bagdikian's book, The Media
Monopoly. (18:26, 56:30)
●Bradley was glad that
Fontana called proprietary relicensing illegitimate. Bradley points
out that sometimes community members, including himself, have too
easily forgiven business models on the edges of software
freedom. (25:13, 30:50 58:30)
Tags: faif, GNU, licensing, non-profit, Richard Fontana
April 12, 2011
Summary
This episode is a recording of Karen's talk, Sign on the
Dotted Line: NDAs and Free and Open Source Software from the 2011
Linux Collaboration Summit.
This show was released on Tuesday 12 April 2011; its
running time is 00:42:44.
Show Notes
Segment 1 (01:33)
You can download a copy of
Karen's slides from the talk if you'd like to follow along.
Here's a listener donated transcription of one of the questions:
[23:14]
[indistinct]
Signed up
[indistinct]
At Google you can opt out.
Some of the people are
You cannot actually [indistinct]
[29:53]
On some NDAs you can have sections that say you are not allowed to
use open source software and not allowed to write open source
software, but the company is hiring you to do exactly this.
[30:12]
In NDAs. I'm a consultant, and so I get a lot of NDAs on my desk. I
know at least 5 large semiconductor companies who have this paragraph
inside that forbid you to look at open source software and its clear
that open source software is a clause for the death penalty when
they're hiring you as a consultant to write drivers in the Linux
kernel.
Tags: faif
March 29, 2011
Summary
Bradley and Karen
discuss two debates going on in the free and open source software
community. One recent and seemingly inflated, and one long and
confusing.
This show was released on Tuesday 29 March 2011; its
running time is 00:43:18.
Show Notes
Segment 1 (03:12)
●Bradley wrote a blog
post about the Bionic issues that were raised. (03:44)
●On the old oggcast, Karen
and Bradley discussed the Android/Linux system and Bionic
specifically. (04:09)
●Karen mentioned an old oggcast
where permissive vs. copyleft licensing was discussed. (06:19)
●Jake Edge wrote an LWN
article that discussed Bionic (07:58)
●Bradley mentioned Raymond
Nimmer's blog that started the debate (10:52)
●Bradley also mentioned Edward
Naughton's blog post and
paper
on Bionic. (11:38)
●Raymond Nimmer is not David Nimmer, who
is known for writings on copyright (18:10)
●There is now an disturbing group on
identica, which is more disturbing than a tag about
disturbing. (19:15)
●Joe
Brockmeier did some research on Edward Naughton's ties to
Microsoft. (20:05)
●Karen mentioned a
paper on deep legal analysis of header files and on
originality requirements in copyright (24:40)
Segment 2 (26:07)
●Karen wanted to clear up some confusion about the discussion
last episode about the “Open Source” and “Free
Software” terminology.
Tags: faif, GPL, licensing, mobile, copyright
March 15, 2011
Summary
Bradley and Karen
have an introductory discussion on how non-profit governance interacts
with Free Software projects and what issues are important for
developers who want their project to have a non-profit existence.
This show was released on Tuesday 15 March 2011; its
running time is 00:34:42.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:37)
●Bradley and Karen began the discussion by commenting
on this blog post by Andy Updegrove about non-profit
governance. (01:50)
●Bradley and Karen tend to agree that non-profit settings are better
places to foster and help Free Software development. (03:40)
●Bradley mentioned that Roland McGrath wrote GNU C
Library (and other GNU programs) while working as an employee at the FSF, and many of those programs are now
often maintained by Red Hat (or other company's) developers, under the
auspices of the GNU project, as overseen by the FSF. (04:50)
●Corporate form and organization questions should be secondary to
project leadership ones. (09:50)
●One of the most important things is to have an organization in a
place where people are willing to do the work to keep the organization
going. (20:10)
●Enthusiasm to keep the organization running is the most important
resource for running the organization. (22:26)
Tags: faif, non-profit
March 1, 2011
Summary
Bradley and Karen
discussed the Windows Phone 7 Application Store terms and conditions
which prohibit GPL'd and other copylefted software in the application store.
This show was released on Tuesday 1 March 2011; its
running time is 00:38:13.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:35)
●Karen and Bradley discussed the Microsoft Phone Marketplace
agreement, which was heavily
covered
in
news
and
blogs. (02:50)
●Karen quoted directly from the § 1(l) from the Windows Phone
Marketplace Application Provider Agreement (03:20)
●Bradley credited Jello Biafra with coining the term
“punditocracy”, but it seems to have been
first usedbyCharles
Reynell in The Economist in 1989 and popularized by
Eric Alterman
in his 1992 book, Sound & Fury: The Making of
the Punditocracy.
●Bradley mentioned the brouhaha about
the order of succession after Regan was shot in 1981. (Bradley
incorrectly said 1980 on the show.) (09:47)
●Karen and Bradley previously discussed the Apple Online Store
agreement on FaiF
Episode 0x03.
●Bradley mentioned that the arm
port of Windows 7 isn't even done (21:30)
●According to a Canalys study quoted on
Wikipedia's
Smartphone entry, RIM is only 14% of the market now, when it was
previously much larger. Symbian is still the largest,
surprisingly. (25:21)
●K-9 Mail is a fork
of the last Free Software version of Google's Android Mail
application. (30:21)
●Bradley compared what's happening with Android to the history of
X Windows (31:40)
●Bradley joked about the naming
length controversy for the Windows Phone 7. (33:00)
●Steve
Ballmer strangely kept saying: The operating system is c
alled
Windows
while talking to market analysis back in
July 2010. (36:04)
After the show was recorded, there was an announcement
that Microsoft would allow employees to build their own companies writing
Windows 7 Series Windows Mobile applications.
Tags: faif, GPL, licensing, microsoft, mobile
February 15, 2011
Summary
Bradley and Karen
discuss types of copyleft generally and introduce the basics of license
compatibility and -or-later clauses.
This show was released on Tuesday 15 February 2011; its
running time is 00:41:57.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:38)
●This show discusses copyleft and basic
issues of license
compatibility (04:09)
●Karen mentioned an episode of the
old Software Freedom Law Show, Episode
0x08, where Bradley and Karen discussed selecting a FLOSS license
and what the various options are. (04:45)
●license compatibility
06:28
●Bradley incorrectly said that the original Emacs license didn't
have the word General
in it. However, the other explanations
appear to be correct. There's a useful history page
that someone wrote about the history of GPL. It appears the
non-general GNU copylefts existed from 1984-1988. (06:57)
●Karen noted that the Library
GPL was renamed to the Lesser GPL which happened
in 1999. (09:30)
●Bradley mentioned that when he and RMS worked on the GNU Classpath
Exception, Bradley suggested it be called the Least
GPL. (10:38)
●GPL doesn't have a choice of
law clause. If another copyleft does, it surely is incompatible
with the GPL. (14:17)
●AGPLv3
§13 and GPLv3 §13 explicitly make themselves compatibility with each other, which
Bradley calls compatibility b
y fiat
. (15:40)
●Karen mentioned that the Mozilla
Public License §13 has a section about multiple licensed code
(16:50).
●Bradley mentioned that Mozilla Firefox uses a combinatorial license:
(GPL|LGPL|MPL), which is a disjunctive tri-license. (19:00).
●Bradley mentioned that the old Software Freedom Law
Show Episode
0x17 discussed compatibility of permissively licensed software and
copylefted software. (20:22)
●Apache
Software License 2.0 was likely the first FLOSS license to have an
explicit patent licensing provision (23:40)
●Bradley and Karen discussed the fact that -only vs. -or-later are
options with the GPL, while they are not with other copylefts, such as
CC-By-SA. (30:11)
Tags: faif, GPL, licensing
February 1, 2011
Summary
Bradley and Karen
discuss non-commercial-only commons licenses, particularly the CC-By-NC
license, and how they compare to Free Culture and Free Software
licenses, and why some authors pick NC licenses instead of Free
Culture/Software ones.
This show was released on Tuesday 1 February 2011; its
running time is 00:49:32.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:36)
●Listeners seeking a show on how to select a Free Software license,
differences between copyleft and non-copyleft, and how they interact with
copyright are encouraged to listen to
episode 0x08 of the old Software Freedom Law Show which
covered these topics. Please write in again if that show doesn't
cover your questions on the issue. (02:10)
●Bradley reminisced about the crass “Brian and O'Brien”
show on Baltimore's B-104 Gary
Huddles who was notorious locally in Baltimore because he was implicated
in Maryland's version of the 1980s Savings and Loan scandals.
(03:30)
●Karen mentioned that freedomdefined.org is the
source for the Free Culture definition that defines what licenses are Free
Culture licenses. (12:54)
●Bradley suggested listening to some of the old versions of RMS' Copyright vs. Community in the
Age of Computer Networks. In fact, there is an audio
recording of the one
at MIT on 19 April 2001 that Bradley attended, andanaudio
recording of the one that Bradley heard at Cardozo Law
School. There is audio
of the Q&A session, wherein RMS engages in that discussion Bradley
mentioned with Free Culture activists. (10:10, 14:04)
●Bradley mentioned that Linus
Torvalds switched to GPL for Linux because he realized non-commercial restrictions
weren't appropriate. (Search the string GPL on that link to find Linus'
answer on that.) (19:00)
●Karen mentioned that Creative Commons did a study
considering what people understand commercial vs. non-commercial to
mean. (20:43)
●Karen and Bradley discussed the text of
CC-By-NC. (23:00)
●Karen mentioned various CC-By-SA licensed derivatives that had been
made from Sita Sings the
Blues. (38:24)
●Bradley discussed the Harry
Potter Lexicon case and Karen mentioned the so-called IP
Colloquium discussion on it. (44:30)
●Bradley mentioned Memory Alpha, which is a
CC-By-NC wiki regarding Star
Trek, which is tolerated by Paramount. (45:20)
Tags: faif, Creative Commons, commercial, licensing
January 18, 2011
Summary
Bradley and Karen
discuss a few corrections from previous shows, and then discuss
misunderstandings about the GPL regarding “revocation” of
the GPL.
This show was released on Tuesday 18 January 2011; its
running time is 00:44:54.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:34)
●Bradley issued a correction regarding FaiF 0x06. Christopher Allan Webber mentioned that
FSF sometimes accepts copyright assignments in cases where the entire code
base is not assigned. (02:40)
●Karen issued a correction regarding FaiF 0x04 about women
being hired to be at the party, but in fact that was not the case, despite
being mentioned in this
article.
●Karen's paper on Medical Devices was linked to from a ZD
Net UK blog. (05:48)
●Bradley mentioned this Android
bug regarding mis-sent SMS, which was widely
covered
in
the
press.
Apparently the bug has been resolved upstream, somewhat disproving
Bradley's point. (08:40)
Segment 1 (12:19)
●Bradley
is quoted in an article about revocation of the GPL (12:35).
●The story was originally covered
on slashdot. (13:17)
●The WinMTR site now
says: By pop
ular request, WinMTR will be av
ailable under GPL
v2
. (19:50)
●Karen mentioned the FSF's GPL FAQ. (29:27)
●Bradley mentioned the
four
rationale
documents.
There's also one
for AGPLv3 draft 2 and LGPLv3 draft
2. (30:13)
Tags: faif, GPL
January 4, 2011
Summary
Bradley and Karen
discuss the inclusionofZFS GPLv2-or-later code inclusion into GNU GRUB.
This show was released on Tuesday 4 January 2011; its
running time is 00:47:58.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:35)
●Bradley and Karen discussed the inclusion of ZFS code now included in GRUB, as the GRUB Project announced and
was covered at LWN by
Jonathan Corbet.
●It's not mandatory that GNU projects have assignment to the FSF.
The
GNU Maintainer's guide discuss the requirements when items are assigned
to FSF. (14:40)
●FSF requires that the entire codebase be assigned once GNU project
maintainers choose to assign copyrights. Conservancy's policy on
copyright assignment differs here; Conservancy will accept partial
copyright assignment. (16:07)
●Bradley mentioned the COBOL front end to GCC
that is not in the main GCC codebase because it is not copyright
assigned to FSF. (17:40)
●Bradley and Karen discussed the Squeak
relicensing last call. (25:49)
●Bradley posted a comment
to Corbet's article. (32:30)
Final (45:45)
●The calendar Bradley was thinking of was the International
Fixed Calendar, which Wikipedia confirms, with a sourced link, was
used by the Eastman Kodak Company from 1928 to 1989.
Tags: faif, GNU, GPL, FSF
December 21, 2010
Summary
Bradley and Karen
welcome special co-presenter and guest, Aaron Williamson, to discuss
the OpenBSD email regarding purported FBI backdoors. In the main
segment, they discuss the amicus brief filed by SFLC (where Aaron and
Karen work) in the Global-Tech Appliances v. SEB USA
Supreme Court case.
This show was released on Tuesday 21 December 2010; its
running time is 00:54:59.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:37)
●Aaron brought up a message
forwarded to the OpenBSD developers listbyTheo de
Raadt. This story has been covered
widely
online.
(02:50)
●Aaron mentioned that Glyn
Moody wrote a blog post about what issues about “Open
Source” security this raises. (04:06)
●Bradley mentioned the gnuftp/Savannah site crack that occurred in
2003 and its security implications. Those seeking more information on
this can read the
slashdot coverage, Savannah forum
posts,
the CERT
advisory and even the missing files still
on the GNU FTP site. (05:21)
●Bradley again mentioned Thompson's hack
which he loves to mention when security issues come up (06:26).
●Karen mentioned SFLC's
medical devices paper, Killed by Code: Software Transparency in
Implantable Medical Devices, which she loves to mention. (08:23)
●Bradley mentioned the Debian/Ubuntu
OpenSSL bug that occurred in mid-2008, which was widely
discussed online. (10:18)
●Bradley mentioned a case in 2000 where the FBI was
able to open a mobster's PGP mail merely by getting his
passphrase. (12:49)
●Bradley offers an even-money bet that there are no FBI-inserted
bugs in OpenBSD. (13:46)
Segment 1 (14:18)
●The canonical page on Wikipedia for
what Karen and Bradley are on FaiF says they are presenters, rather than
hosts. (15:06)
●Aaron and Karen's organization, the Software Freedom Law Center, announced
that they filed an amicus
brief in the Global-Tech
Appliances v. SEB case. (16:30)
●Despite the beliefs of a Jeopardy! contestant last
month, “Maria”isSonia
Sotomayor's middle name. Antonin Scalia's
middle name is “Gregory” (17:20)
●Bradley again reviewed the issues of classical
vs. church pronunciations. (19:20)
●Bradley asked Aaron if what was being sold in this case was
equivalent to the Cornballer
as introduced on the television show, Arrested
Development. (20:30)
●Bradley mentioned that on FaiF 0x02, they
discussed the issue of how higher courts consider issues of law more
than the detailed facts of the case. (23:30)
●RMS's speech, The Danger of Software Patents, is
available as a transcript
and audio
(ogg)
(35:22)
●Aaron mentioned Newegg's
brief, which is a reseller. (40:50)
●Aaron mentioned the SCOTUS
blog summary which included links to other amici
briefs. (41:01)
●Bradley referenced Don's staff answer to their boss, Don, in the Kids
in the Hall movie, Brain Candy. (45:57)
Final (54:16)
●Aaron, Karen and Bradley are discussing the alternative
lyrics to the Stars and Stripes Forever. (54:20)
These show notes are Copyright © 2010, Karen
Sandler and Bradley M. KuhnofFree as in Freedom, and are licensed under
the Creative Commons
Attribution-Share-Alike 3.0 Unported license (CC-By-SA-3.0
Unported).
Tags: faif
December 7, 2010
Summary
In this episode of Free as in Freedom,
Karen and Bradley discuss in the
first segment recent press coverage of sexist attitudes at Free
Software conferences, and in the second segment, discuss the public
filings related to the Novell sale.
This show was released on Tuesday 7 December 2010; its
running time is 00:58:16.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:40)
●Karen and Bradley discuss an article called The
Dark Side of Open Source Conference, which was covered some in
the tech press, in press
outside of technology. Deb
Nicholson wrote a blog post about it, as did
Valerie (the original article's author. (01:06)
●Bradley mentioned his
blog post where he discussed issues of gender equality across all
Computer Science, not just the Free Software community. (05:29)
●Karen mentioned Kirrily
“Skud” Robert. (10:27)
Segment 1 (32:18)
●There was an announcement that Novell will be sold (32:15)
●Karen mentioned that Andy Updegrove blogged
twice
on the subject (32:30)
●Karen talked about the 8K
filing that Novell made regarding the purchase. (34:30)
●Karen mentioned a post
on groklaw. (42:43)
●Bradley mentioned that the OIN
patent license is incredibly narrow and not particularly useful,
because the definition
of the “Linux system“ is so narrow, and because OIN is
a pro-patent, for-profit company that doesn't have the interest of Free
Software at its heart. (45:30)
●Karen disagrees with Bradley's comments on OIN and thinks his
characterization of the patent pool is a serious
exaggeration. (46:00)
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Sandler and Bradley M. KuhnofFree as in Freedom, and are licensed under
the Creative Commons
Attribution-Share-Alike 3.0 Unported license (CC-By-SA-3.0
Unported).
Tags: faif, novell
November 23, 2010
Summary
Karen and Bradley discuss the debates regarding Apple's online store
restrictions that make it impossible to distribute GPL'd software via
Apple's store. Then, they discuss question the usefulness of the term
“Open Core”
Note: Bradley's audio was too low compared to Karen's on this
episode. We're still sorting out our recording issues, and apologize
for this. This is completely Bradley's fault: don't blame Producer
Dan. :)
This show was released on Tuesday 23 November 2010; its
running time is 00:45:04.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:34)
●Karen mentioned first Brett's
statement on the VLC mailing list, although that is toward the end of
the story
that was covered last month. (05:30)
●Bradley mentioned that the story started with FSF's
enforcement regarding Apple's distribution of GNU Go in Apple's
application store. (05:54)
●Don't confused GNU Go
(the game) with Google Go (the
programming language). Bradley pointed out that Google did assign
some of its copyright on the language Go, for the GCC frontend for
the Go language. (06:51)
●Bradley mentioned that the game Go has been around thousands of
years, although according the Go Wikipedia entry,
it's been around for approximately 2,500 years. (08:21)
●Bradley pointed out that the primary goal of GPL enforcement is to get
compliance, not to get companies to cease distribution, but sometimes
the companies prefer to cease distribution rather than complying with
the license. (09:57)
●There was disagreement in the VLC community about the enforcement
action (11:50). There's an original
thread on the VLC mailing list that discussed this (12:35), and then Brett's
response on that list. (13:25)
●GPLv2 requires in § 6 that you cannot impose terms that restrict
the downstream more than GPL otherwise does. (15:40)
●FSF made
a statement that linked this issue to the DRM issue, which caused some
confusion. It's our view that what Apple is doing against GPL software is
part of their initiative to put DRM (both for software and more
traditional content) onto devices. (17:20)
●Bradley mentioned that Apple lawyers have a pathological hatred of
GPL, which he believes comes directly down from Steve Jobs, who began his
dislike of GPL when he tried, while at NeXT, to distribute a proprietary
front-end for GCC for Objective-C. (RMS discussed the story briefly in
his essay Copyleft:
Pragmatic Idealism.) (23:45)
Segment 1 (27:40)
●Bradley has decided
that the term “Open Core” is so confusing that it's now
useless.
●The Gnus
IMAP backend is being rewritten, and
Joel Adamson mentioned that
he's using Emacs
development mainline and the new IMAP implementation is working
well. (29:58)
●Alexandre Oliva started
a project called Linux Libre,
to remove proprietary software from Linux. (31:31)
●There is a file
called WHENCE in Linux that is a long list of proprietary software
included inside Linux. Fontana linked the WHENCE
file on identi.ca (31:02)
● Alexandre made
an announcement calling Linux an “Open Core” project.
(32:56)
●Bradley mentioned that Alexandre appears to have been
convinced that Open Core is a problematic term in this context (during
this identica
conversation). Alexandre seems to be favoring the term “Free
Bait” now. (35:16)
●Karen mentioned Nina Paley's intellectual
pooperty cartoon. (38:39)
●Bradley mentioned the softer
sid
e of Sears
marketing campaign, which was used as
a cruel joke by Cordeliainthe pilotofBuffy
the Vampire Slayer to make fun of Willow's
clothes. Sears apparently dropped
the campaign in 1999. (40:23)
●Join us on #faif on freenode and the !FaiFCast group on identi.ca (43:47)
Tags: faif
November 9, 2010
Summary
Karen and Bradley discuss Stormy Peters' departure from the GNOME
Foundation, an issue of deep confusion regarding copyright licensing,
and references to Spock in a recent court decision.
This show was released on Tuesday 9 November 2010; its
running time is 00:39:56.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:35)
●Bradley confirmed the entire show is licensed CC-By-SA 3.0.
(02:30)
●Stormy
Peters is leaving the position of GNOME Foundation's Executive
Director. (04:10)
●The GNOME Advisory
Board is a group of for-profit and non-profit organizations that
meet regularly to give advice to GNOME Foundation. (04:34)
●Stormy is going to a job at the Mozilla Foundation. (09:10)
●You don't have to be a developer to become a member of the GNOME
Foundation. (09:57)
●Bradley mentioned that he did an FSF booth at COMDEX Chicago in early 2001
(which Bradley incorrectly called CES Chicago in the
recording). (12:20)
Segment 1 (15:43)
●A LiveJournal
post introduced an interesting issue of copyright confusion.
(16:30)
●Karen mentioned there was discussion in other fora other than the
original LiveJournal post, such as on the NY Frunch (Free Culture
Lunch) mailing
list and, since then, on
NPR. (17:24)
●Bradley mentioned Fanzines, wondering if
there are still fanzines. (18:57)
●Karen pointed out that both copyright infringement and plagiarism
were at issue here. (20:25)
●Bradley is quite upset about the idea that people confuse public
domain with FaiF licensing or any other actual license
terms. (21:00)
●Karen notes that if you don't see a license, you have to assume
it's all rights reserved. (23:10)
●Bradley described a Slashdot
story that linked to a Techdirt
article. (30:29)
●Afootnote
in the concurrence is what mentions Star Trek
(33:03) .
●Bradley mentioned a mediocre novel he read in the 1990s called Brain
Storm by Richard Dooling. (33:26)
Tags: faif
October 29, 2010
Summary
Bradley and Karen discuss the new license of their show, multi-platform Free Software projects and conferences Bradley attended this month.
This show was released on Friday 29 October 2010; its
running time is 00:46:13.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:32)
●All recordings for the first 0x01 attempt had an annoying audio
buzz. (01:18)
●The Free as in Freedom oggcast is now licensed CC-By-SA 3.0
Unported (03:10)
●Karl Fogel is Executive Director of Question Copyright. (03:35)
●Karen mentioned the Free Culture
definition. (08:22)
●Larry Lessig presented to an FSF Members Meeting using
Mac. (09:22)
●Bradley and Karen argued about whether or not OpenOffice.org and/or
Firefox run better on non-GNU/Linux systems than on
GNU/Linux. (18:00)
●Bradley and Karen argued about whether or not otherwise proprietary
company control of Free Software causes problems by default. (21:10)
Segment 1 (27:00)
●Lara Moy got Ubuntu running on her Mac hardware. (27:30)
●Bradley attended the jQuery Conference
Boston 2010 (28:30)
●Bradley was at the Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit. (36:26)
Tags: faif
October 6, 2010
Summary
Bradley and Karen announced that the Software Freedom Law
Show is over. Karen and Bradley announced a new show,
called Free as in Freedom, that will not be affiliated
with any specific organization (although Bradley and Karen keep all their
various affiliations themselves. :).
This show was released on Wednesday 6 October 2010; its
running time is 00:32:32.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:28)
●Bradley mentioned OsamaK is not
happy at Bradley and Karen for not having a new oggcast for a
month. (00:45)
●Bradley no long works at the Software Freedom Law Center. He now
works full time at the Software
Freedom Conservancy. (02:00)
●Bradley thinks everything related to FLOSS should be called
“Software Freedom”. (03:10)
●Karen and Bradley mention that many people in the software freedom
world are involved in multiple organizations. (04:00)
●Karen is an officer
and lawyer to Software Freedom Conservancy. (04:30)
●Conservancy provides non-profit
infrastructure and services. (05:10)
●Conservancy helps software freedom projects focus on development, and
aggregate projects into one place. (06:20)
●Conservancy will be expanding its service plan now that Bradley is
full time. (06:46)
●Conservancy will try do copyright assignment in a community-focused
way, only if the developers want it. Conservancy will also do more GPL
enforcement than previously. (07:20)
●Bradley mentioned that Matthew Garrett has been doing some
GPL enforcement, and Bradley thanked
him for it publicly. (07:50)
●Karen thinks we'll see more enforcement over time, by more
people. (08:14)
●Bradley wants to help Conservancy's member projects do
more fundraising for initiatives to fund software development
activity. (08:40)
●Bradley mentioned that Matt
Mackall is doing Mercurial development funded through
Conservancy. (09:20)
●As
of earlier this year, Bradley is a volunteer director of the FSF, and
now has additional volunteer work that he needs to do, while Conservancy
(his former volunteer work) becomes his day job. (11:09)
●Bradley mentions that once you start doing something in the software
freedom world, it's hard to stop once people start to rely on your
work. (12:30)
●Conservancy handles a lot of “boring” but essential stuff
for developers to continue in their project. (14:20)
●Bradley mentioned that his early volunteer work at FSF was also doing
the boring stuff, and indeed a lot of his work has been willing to do the
boring stuff (15:30)
●Karen mentions that no one fights over the work that just need
s to
get done
. (16:30)
●Bradley discussed the fact that for-profit corporate control of
projects is dangerous, and one of the things Conservancy and similar
non-profits offers is an opportunity to have a non-profit with the public
interest at heart in the center of their community. (17:39)
●Bradley mentioned the LibreOffice by the Document
Foundation (18:03)
●Karen points out that for-profit and non-profit go hand-in-hand. But,
Bradley argues that steward of a FLOSS project should always be an
NGO. Karen agrees. (19:00-19:30)
●Bradley doesn't really believe that there are projects that would
“never happen” without a for-profit company starting it.
Karen disagrees.
●The Software Freedom Law Showisover
This is the last episode of the Software Freedom
Law Show. (21:10)
●Karen will make sure that the SFLC RSS feeds remain valid. Bradley
points out that there are new RSS feeds for both the mp3 version and the ogg version of the new show,
Free as in Freedom (21:33,
22:41)
●The new show is basically just the Karen and Bradley show, now named Free as in Freedom, hosted on faif.us. (23:43)
●Bradley mentioned that everywhere he's ever worked, he always had root
on most of the boxes. He doesn't know what it's like to work somewhere
and not have root. (27:50)
●Karen got in trouble at her first law firm job for installing software
on computers. (28:21)
●Dan Scott sent a gift to Bradley
and Karen Soap with 20-Ds
in them.
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