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Free as in Freedom
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
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
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