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Free as in Freedom

0x5C: Basic FLOSS Concepts: Licensing 101

2 September 2016

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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)

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