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Free as in Freedom
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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 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 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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