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Free as in Freedom

0x5F: Was 2018 the Year of Non-FOSS Licensing?

31 December 2018

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Summary

Bradley and Karen return, as promised, in 2018 (just barely)! They discuss the many non-FOSS and otherwise software-freedom-unfriendly licenses that have been promulgated in 2018. This show was released on Monday 31 December 2018; its running time is 00:36:49.

Show Notes

Segment 0 (00:36)

Bradley and Karen discuss ideas for what to do with the oggcast going forward.

Segment 2 (07:49)

●Bradley mentioned the field of endeavor restriction in Open Source Defintion. (09:20) ●Bradley mentioned how badly Amazon treats its workers who pack boxes, which was widely reported this month (10:22). ●Bradley referenced that someone changed attempted to change a license on a project to prohibit use by USA border protection agents. This was the Lerna project, and Bradley wrote a blog post about it earlier this year. (12:14) ●Bradley mentioned the controversy about the new MongoDB license, the SS Public License, which Bradley also wrote a blog post about earlier this year (14:09) ●karen reports that many people at the Sustain OSS Conference were surprised that sustaining the idelogy of software freedom was something that people value. (27:10)

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