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Free as in Freedom

December 24, 2014

0x52: Legal Issues from a Radical Community Angle

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

0x51: Why Licenses Requiring Use of Trademarks are Non-Free

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 May 7, 2013

0x3C: FOSDEM 2013: How to Share a Trademark

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 Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynchofdanlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums. Main Page | License of show and website | Ogg Feed | MP3 Feed Please see the license page for details about the licensing of the show, the content of this website, and the software that runs this website.