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Free as in Freedom

Episode 0x1D: Stefano Zacchiroli, Current DPL

29 November 2011

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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)

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