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Episode 0x1D: Stefano Zacchiroli, Current DPL
29 November 2011
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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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