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Free as in Freedom
June 13, 2013
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0x3E: Mozilla - Licensing in the Trenches
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.
May 28, 2013
0x3D: Conference Behavior Redux
Summary
Karen and Bradley discuss the sexist comment issue that occurred a few months ago at PyCon USA 2013.
This show was released on Tuesday 28 May 2013; its running time is 00:39:23.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:00:34)
- Bradley and Karen previously discussed conference behavior back in Episode 0x04.
- Bradley had blogged a few years ago about the issues of sexism through the computer industry, including this study showing the glass ceiling in CS academics. (05:17)
- Bradley mentioned that he'd blogged in the past that proprietary software companies also have issues of sexism at conferences (05:58)
- Bradley mentioned the How to Perform Like a Porn Star CouchDB talk at a Ruby Conference (06:13)
- There is indeed a Project named PyCorn. (09:38)
- Bradley mentioned the Planet Money
story about Online Pharmacies but he couldn't find the original audio
of the longer piece that ends with the phrase
Stay Shady, Internet
(21:30) - Bradley mentioned a quote about the human mind being the most dangerous thing because everything is in it, which is actually from Heart of Darkness by Joesph Conrad. (23:40)
- Bradley mentioned that a keynoter at LinuxCon Europe made sexist comments back in 2011. (30:02)
- Bradley and Karen encouraged listeners to promote the GNOME Foundation Outreach Program for Women (31:20)
- Bradley mentioned Shuttleworth's comment at LinuxCon North America in 2009 (32:02).
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 meansorigin
, notsource code
. (01:05:55) - Bradley mentioned this Planet Money story about the 5¢ coke. (01:21:37)
April 11, 2013
Episode 0x3B: FOSDEM 2013: Should We Embrace App Stores?
Summary
Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss Simon Phipps' and Amanda Brock's talk from FOSDEM 2013, entitled Should We Embrace App Stores?.
This show was released on Thursday 11 April 2013; its running time is 01:11:25.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:00:33)
Karen and Bradley introduce the talk.
Segment 1 (00:03:03)
- Simon and Amanda used no slides during their talk.
- Amanda misquotes Bradley at 07:30. Bradley said:
An unenforced copyleft is the moral equivalent of a permissive license
, not that you give a license automatically not by enforcing. You can listen to FaiF Episode 0x38 to verify.
Segment 1 (00:49:35)
Bradley and Karen discuss the talk.
April 3, 2013
Episode 0x3A: FOSDEM 2013: FOSS Code Goes In And Never Comes Out
Summary
Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss Gabriel Holloway's talk from FOSDEM 2013, entitled FOSS code goes in and never comes out: The Challenge of Sandboxed Proprietary Cloud Services.
This show was released on Wednesday 3 April 2013; its running time is 01:24:33.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:00:33)
Karen and Bradley introduce the talk.
Segment 1 (00:05:48)
The speaker's that you hear are:
- Gabriel Holloway, who gives the talk
- Till Jaeger asks the first question.
- A few other questions are asked, but we're unsure who the speakers are.
- Tom Marble, asks a question later.
Unfortunately, Gabe didn't provide us with slides.
Segment 2 (00:52:25)
- Bradley mentioned the Berne Convention on Copyright. (01:07:19)
- Karen mentioned Cooper Union and how they are in danger of running out of money for their full tuition scholarships. (01:10:00)
- Bradley looked but couldn't find the NPR story about terms of use. (01:19:37)
March 26, 2013
Episode 0x39: FOSDEM 2013: What is a Derivative Work under European Copyright Law?
Summary
Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss Till Jaeger's talk from FOSDEM 2013, entitled What is a derivative work under European Copyright Law?.
This show was released on Tuesday 26 March 2013; its running time is 01:13:07.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:00:31)
Karen and Bradley introduce the talk.
Segment 2 (00:02:41)
The speaker's that you hear are:
- Tom Marble, introduces the talk, and asks one of the questions.
- Till Jaeger, who gives the talk
The slides for Till Jaeger's talk are available.
Segment 2 (00:49:11)
- Bradley and Karen discuss Till's talk.
- Clarence
Thomas spoke the first time in the Supreme Court. Bradley said that
he said
it did not
, but apparently he actually saidhe did not
. (59:49) - Bradley scanned
in his Brussels airport train ticket that had his notes on it, where
you can read
noa push caa
. (01:06:40) - Bradley mentioned the phrase Elvis has left the building. (01:07:15)
March 19, 2013
Episode 0x38: FOSDEM 2013: GPL Compliance Panel
Summary
Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss the GPL Compliance Panel from FOSDEM 2013.
This show was released on Tuesday 19 March 2013; its running time is 01:13:02.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:00:34)
Karen and Bradley have some not-so-witty banter about the FOSDEM 2013 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom.
Segment 1 (00:07:19)
The speakers on the panel are (in order of appearance):
- Tom Marble, introduces the panel.
- Karen Sandler, moderator.
- Alexios Zavras
- Richard Sands
- Bradley M. Kuhn
- Harald Welte
Segment 2 (01:02:51)
- Bradley mentioned the Comic Book Guy from The Simpsons, but incorrectly said he didn't have an actual name, which he does (Jeff Albertson) (01:05:30)
February 13, 2013
Episode 0x37: Copyright Assignment Again
Summary
Karen and Bradley discuss the LWN article, GnuTLS, copyright assignment, and GNU project governance and other issues related to copyright assignment.
This show was released on Wednesday 13 February 2013; its running time is 01:01:15.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:46)
- Bradley didn't want his words compared to the Ayn Rand's quote from an
interview with Phil Donahue where she said
I'm not going to die, it's just that world will end
. (02:54) - Bradley discussed the reaction to on 0x36 that occurred in this identi.ca thread. (04:20)
- Bradley and Karen discussed the LWN article, GnuTLS, copyright assignment, and GNU project governance. (11:15)
- Bradley pointed out that every other copyleft license allows for
relicensing under newer versions automatically (i.e., they have an
automatic -or-later ), and Karen asked whether Sun's
CDDL does. Bradley checked later, Karen was correct that CDDL's
later version clause (Section 4) is similar to the GPL
policy. (23:00) However, Fontana wrote to us on IRC to say
CDDL's license upgradeability clause is not entirely like GPL's. The GPL states that if no version number is specified, any version can be used. CDDL does not say this; it seems to assume that it will always be clear what version CDDL code will be distributed under, whereas GPL seems to assume otherwise.
- Bradley mentioned the interview he did with The H Online on GPL enforcement. (41:57)
December 18, 2012
Episode 0x36: RMS' Ubuntu Essay and Canonical, Ltd.'s Response
Summary
Karen and Bradley discuss RMS' essay on FSF's website, Ubuntu SpyWare: What To Do, and Shuttleworth's Slashdot interview that responds somewhat to RMS' comments.
This show was released on Tuesday 18 December 2012; its running time is 00:39:57.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:36)
- Karen and Bradley discuss RMS' essay on FSF's website, Ubuntu SpyWare: What To Do (08:50)
- Bradley mentioned how Fab discovered (and discussed on Linux Outlaws 280) how a search for “ter” in efforts to find a terminal window in Ubuntu yields [slightly NSFW] gives results for Rachel Ter Horst DVDs. (09:44)
- Bradley mentioned his blog post about Nokia's problems interfacing with Free Software communities. (14:50)
- Bradley and Karen discuss Shuttleworth's Slashdot interview (18:25).
- Bradley and Karen also briefly mentioned Jono Bacon's comments about RMS's essay and Jono's apology. (19:30)
- Bradley mentioned Shuttleworth's comments during his LinuxCon 2011 keynote. (20:14)
- Bradley mentioned Douglas Rushkoff's article, Teach U.S. kids to write computer code (29:30)
December 5, 2012
Episode 0x35: Oracle vs. Google Copyright Decision
Summary
Karen and Bradley discuss the copyright decision in the Oracle vs. Google case.
This show was released on Wednesday 5 December 2012; its running time is 00:32:38.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:33)
- Bradley mentioned the BPM for the human heart is to the Bee Gee's song, STayin' Alive. (01:55)
- FaiF's bandwidth is provided by OSU-OSL. Please donate to OSU-OSL. (09:50)
- Bradley and Karen discuss the copyright decision in the Oracle vs. Google case. (12:26)
- Bradley couldn't find quickly a full telling of the windings/SCO font thing, but this blog mentions it (29:34)
November 22, 2012
Episode 0x34: Medical Devices Update
Summary
Karen gives an update on the advocacy of software freedom for medical devices, while Bradley continually takes the show off-topic.
This show was released on Thursday 22 November 2012; its running time is 00:33:48.
Show Notes
- Bradley mentioned Jimmy Fallon's … And We're Back script.
- Barnaby Jack showed lethal attacks exist on wireless devices. (06:25)
- Karen previously gave a talk about her heart condition on the show. (07:13)
- Hugo Campos, who also works on this issue. (26:08)
- Bradley mentioned the Therac-25 software-related disaster. (29:30)
October 10, 2012
Episode 0x33: Richard Fontana at LinuxCon North America 2012
Summary
Karen and Bradley play and discuss Richard Fontana's LinuxCon North America 2012 talk, The Tragedy of the Commons Gatekeepers.
This show was released on Wednesday 10 October 2012; its running time is 01:13:39.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:33)
Bradley and Karen introduce Richard Fontana's talk.
Segment 1 (02:48)
Richard Fontana's slides are available online, and there is also a well-written summary of the talk available on LWN.
Segment 2 (47:15)
Karen and Bradley discuss Fontana's talk.
September 27, 2012
Episode 0x32: Matthew Garrett on UEFI at LinuxCon North America 2012
Summary
Karen and Bradley play and discuss Matthew Garrett's talk, Linux in a UEFI Secure Boot World talk from LinuxCon North America 2012.
This show was released on Thursday 27 September 2012; its running time is 01:05:28.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:34)
- Bradley mentioned that people at LinuxCon North America 2012 were talking about this article, wherein it states 51% of survey respondents believe [bad] weather can impact cloud computing. Bradley and Karen pointed out all the many ways that it can, such as if your services come via satellite links. (02:10)
- Bradley mentioned Matthew's talk might be best listened to before our earlier FaiFCast 0x2d about UEFI and Restricted Boot, as Matthew's talk is a very good introduction to that material (07:01)
Segment 1 (08:43)
Segment 2 (51:35)
- Karen song a part of one of the OpenBSD songs, E-Railed (OpenBSD Mix). (01:00:35)
- Bradley mentioned Theo de Raadt's comments regarding restricted boot. (01:00:44)
September 14, 2012
Episode 0x31: GNU Mediagoblin
Summary
Karen and Bradley interview Christopher Allan Webber of the GNU Mediagoblin project.
This show was released on Friday 14 September 2012; its running time is 00:45:39.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:31)
Karen and Bradley introduce the interview.
Segment 0 (00:56)
- Karen and Bradley interview their guest, Christopher Allan Webber of the GNU Mediagoblin project.
- GNU Mediagoblin is licensed under the Affero GPL, but does not require copyright assignment and the developers have no plans to seek a proprietary licensing business.
- Bradley mentioned this dent by Stephen Fry on identi.ca, but that was in fact not his last dent as Bradley said. (21:50)
- GNU Mediagoblin is working on a fundraising video and will start a new fundraising campaign soon.
- Chris discussed this comic about trolls that was part of the slides of Chris' OSCON talk. (27:07)
- Chris mentioned the Open Source Almost Everything essay from GitHub's founder. (28:30)
- Karen mentioned Mike Linksvayer's talk in FaiF 0x2E. (39:00)
Segment 1 (43:36)
GNU Mediagoblin will be launching a fundraising campaign soon. Check back here for details later!
August 28, 2012
Episode 0x30: GNOME Press Comments
Summary
Karen and Bradley discuss recent coverage of GNOME by the technology press, and more generally issues and concerns with the technology press.
This show was released on Tuesday 28 August 2012; its running time is 00:56:31.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:44)
- Bradley couldn't find support for his claim about
in the can
, and Karen may be right.(01:15) - Bradley mentioned that the GNOME Foundation negative press recently is akin to what Harry Reid did by stating rumors regarding Romney's taxes. (05:03)
- Karen mentioned the Debunking Handbook that Germán Póo-Caamaño mentioned to her. (06:30)
- Bradley mentioned the quote
I do not think [that word] means what you think it means
from The Princess Bride. (13:30) - Karen mentioned the GNOME 15 year Anniversary Site. (17:22)
- Bradley mentioned Dave Neary's GNOME census, and quoted numbers from the census. (21:30)
- Bradley discussed Eazel, a company co-founded by Andy Hertzfeld. (23:03)
- Karen mentioned GNOME's Outreach Program for Women, in which Conservancy participates. (25:34)
- Karen mentioned an article that came out on the same day as this audcast. (30:30)
- Bradley mentioned that some research by evolutionary biologists suggests language may have developed for gossip (38:48). Bradley couldn't find evidence easily online for the 80% is gossip claim on the audcase, but did find an article talking about 65% of human communication is gossip.
- Bradley mentioned the television series, The Human Animal. (39:17)
- Bradley mentioned a thread he recently posted in on the BusyBox mailing list. (50:32)
- Bradley mentioned that there are many cognitive psychological biases. (51:11)
August 14, 2012
0x2F: OSCON and GUADEC 2012
Summary
Karen and Bradley discuss OSCON and GUADEC.
This show was released on Tuesday 14 August 2012; its running time is 00:39:53.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:36)
- Bradley represents FSF on the GNOME Advisory Board. (02:20)
- Bradley points out it's very dangerous when you can buy voting rights of a 501(c)(3) by paying money, such as the structure of OSI. Karen notes that contribution-based membership works very well for GNOME. (03:50)
- Bradley is concerned about the future of OSI's license list now that votes in OSI are for sale. (04:30)
- Bradley received an O'Reilly Open Source Award at OSCON 2012. Bradley blogged an acceptance speech for the award. (08:50)
- The Python award and the Perl White Camel award is also given at OSCON. (12:35)
- Karen mentioned FLOSS Foundations, and asked if there was a meeting at OSCON. Bradley mentioned it had been primarily rolled into Jono Bacon's CLS conference. (15:10)
Segment 1 (17:56)
- Bradley wrote in a post about the GUADEC 2010 conference to note how welcoming the community was. Karen described GUADEC 2012 as very similar in nature. (21:25)
- Karen mentioned her husband Mike had a similar reaction to GUADEC 2012 that Bradley had to GUADEC 2010. (23:50)
July 17, 2012
Episode 0x2E: FOSDEM 2012: Linksvayer on Public Policy & CC 4.0
Summary
Karen and Bradley play and discuss Mike Linksvayer's FOSDEM 2012 talk, Creative Commons 4.0 licenses and other opportunities for FLOSS/free culture legal/policy intersections from the FOSDEM 2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom.
This show was released on Tuesday 17 July 2012; its running time is 00:59:30.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:38)
Bradley and Karen suggest that you use the slides below when listening to Mike's talk.
Segment 1 (05:51)
Mike Linksvayer's slides for this talk are available in PDF format and in ODP format.
Segment 2 (33:43)
Segment 3 (34:25)
A special licensing message from Mike Linksvayer.
Segment 4 (35:09)
- Karen mentioned Bradley's favorite movie, It's a Wonderful Life.
- Bradley mentioned Asheesh Laroia, who appears to never blogged about his CC/credit-card-thief freenode confusion story. (48:00)
- Bradley mentioned Fontana's Copyleft.next project . (50:00)
- Bradley mentioned the ST:TNG
episode, Unification,
Part II, although he kept calling it
Reunification
during the episode. Please don't write in to complain; he realized the error after recording. (54:39)
July 5, 2012
0x2D: FSF's Restricted Boot Paper
Summary
Karen and Bradley discuss FSF's announcement of FSF's white paper on Restricted Boot, which critiques Red Hat's approach to restricted boot for its Fedora distribution and Canonical, Ltd.'s approach to restricted boot for its Ubuntu distribution.
This show was released on Thursday 5 July 2012; its running time is 00:42:22.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:38)
- Karen mentioned it's useful that FSF avoids preloaded names. Bradley used FSF's criticism of the term “intellectual property” as an example of why it's important to avoid biased terminology. (02:22)
- Karen suggested that listeners may want to read FSF's white paper on Restricted Boot. (04:00)
- Bradley suggested also reading the Fedora statement and both Canonical, Ltd. statements. (04:37)
- Bradley and Karen mentioned the many blog posts Matthew Garrett made about UEFI are worth reading in sequence to learn more about this issue. (13:21)
- Bradley mentioned that FSF collaborated with the EFF on the broadcast flag issue. (25:40)
- Alan Cox made some critical posts toward Matthew and the Red Hat policy. (20:50)
- Bradley mentioned this Ancient Aliens from the History channel. (39:15)
June 19, 2012
0x2C: FOSDEM 2012: Laurent's Open Licences before European Courts
Summary
Karen and Bradley play and discuss Philippe Laurent's FOSDEM 2012 talk, Open Licences before European Courts from the FOSDEM 2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom.
This show was released on Tuesday 19 June 2012; its running time is 00:44:07.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:36)
Karen and Bradley mention there is one talk remaining after this one from the FOSDEM 2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom.
Segment 1 (03:04)
Philippe's slides are available from faif.us. Note: the slides are licensed differently than the show: they are CC-By-SA-3.0-Unported (rather than -USA).
Segment 2 (32:22)
- Bradley mentioned FSF France's involvement with the AFPA case. (37:30)
June 5, 2012
0x2B: Deb Nicholson of OIN
Summary
Karen and Bradley interview Deb Nicholson of Open Invention Network, GNU MediaGoblin and Open Hatch.
This show was released on Tuesday 5 June 2012; its running time is 00:48:12.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:36)
- Karen announced her pregnancy. (01:50)
- Bradley will be at OSCON, Karen might be, and Karen will be at GUADEC. Bradley will be at LinuxCon North America and LinuxCon Europe. (03:00)
Segment 1 (04:40)
- Deb Nicholson was previously on the show as Episode 0x25: FOSDEM 2012 Patents Panel. (06:00)
- Deb mentioned Linux System Definition, which is the OIN-published list of things that OIN members license their patents to each other on. (07:12)
- Deb and Bradley are debating Bradley's comment regarding Deb's points on the panel on 0x25. If you go back to listen to 0x25, the context for the comment they're debating starts around 38:00 in 0x25. (19:20)
- It's possible etymology of the verb “to harp” may indeed come from the musical instrument, not harpy. (31:00)
- Karen mentioned The Ada Initiative. (32:52)
Segment 2 (38:54)
Bradley and Karen talk about plans for upcoming shows.