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Free as in Freedom
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
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 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
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
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