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November 24, 2015

[Get cast in Ogg/Vorbis
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Summary

Free as in Freedom host Christopher Allan Webber interviews Karen Sandler and Bradley Kuhn about their work on copyleft and at Software Freedom Conservancy. You can become a Supporter of this work!

This show was released on Tuesday 24 November 2015; its running time is 00:26:10.

Show Notes


Tags: faif, licensing, copyleft, Conservancy

June 4, 2015

[Get cast in Ogg/Vorbis
                                          format] [Get cast in MP3 format] 0x56: … & We're Back!

Summary

Bradley and Karen discuss the VMware lawsuit that Software Freedom Conservancy is funding.

This show was released on Thursday 4 June 2015; its running time is 00:33:52.

Show Notes


Tags: GPL, Debian, conferences, copyleft

March 3, 2015

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                                          format] [Get cast in MP3 format] 0x55: Nick Coghlan at LCA 2015

Summary

Bradley and Karen interview Nick Coghlan, who works onn development and test infrastructure for Red Hat and is heavily involved with the Python community.

This show was released on Tuesday 3 March 2015; its running time is 00:40:12.

Show Notes

Segment 0 (00:00:35)

Bradley and Karen interviewed Nick Coghlan who works for Red Hat and contributes to various Open Source and Free Software projects such as Python. Nick discussed his work on the infrastructure team at Red Hat, and his advocacy of Kallithea for use for the CPython project.


Tags: faif, conferences, Kallithea

January 29, 2015

[Get cast in Ogg/Vorbis
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Summary

Bradley and Karen interview Carol Smith, Programs and Open Source Community Manager of Google Summer of Code about the program and its policies and procedures.

This show was released on Thursday 29 January 2015; its running time is 00:39:39.

Show Notes

Segment 0 (00:00:35)

Bradley encourages those who attend FOSDEM 2015 to attend sign up to attend the Supporter Night Event on 30 January 2015 in Brussels, Belgium.

Segment 1 (00:50:11)

More Show notes for this one coming soon!


Tags: faif, conferences, Google Summer of Code

December 30, 2014

[Get cast in Ogg/Vorbis
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Summary

Bradley and Karen discuss what plagiarism is (or isn't) and how it interacts with copyleft licenses.

This show was released on Tuesday 30 December 2014; its running time is 01:16:43.

Show Notes

Segment 0 (00:00:37)

Segment 1 (00:16:16)


Tags: faif, GPL, Creative Commons, commercial, licensing, plagiarism

December 24, 2014

[Get cast in Ogg/Vorbis
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Summary

Bradley and Karen play and discuss

Stefano Zacchiroli's talk entitled Legal issues from a radical community angle that he gave 12:00 European/Central time on Sunday 2 February 2014 at FOSDEM 2014.

This show was released on Wednesday 24 December 2014; its running time is 01:04:50.

Show Notes

Segment 0 (00:00:35)

Karen and Bradley introduce the talk.

Segment 1 (00:02:38)

Stefano Zacchiroli's talk entitled Legal issues from a radical community angle . You can watch the video instead of listening to our audio and/or follow along with Zach's slides.

Segment 2 (00:53:17)


Tags: faif, licensing, copyright, Debian, FOSDEM, trademarks

December 11, 2014

[Get cast in Ogg/Vorbis
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Summary

Bradley and Karen play and discuss Pam Chestek's talk entitled Why Licenses Requiring Use of Trademarks are Non-Free that she gave on Sunday 2 February 2014 at FOSDEM 2014.

This show was released on Thursday 11 December 2014; its running time is 01:10:00.

Show Notes

Segment 0 (00:00:34)

Segment 1 (00:13:26)

Pam Chestek gives a talk entitled Why Licenses Requiring Use of Trademarks are Non-Free. You can watch the video instead of listening to our audio and follow along with Pam's slides.

Segment 2 (01:00:37)


Tags: faif, commercial, licensing, FOSDEM, trademarks

November 24, 2014

[Get cast in Ogg/Vorbis
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Summary

Karen and Bradley interview Richard M. Stallman on the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the GNU Project.

Note: Episode 0x5B was released out of sequence, but they are in the order of release date on faif.us (rather than numerical order by episode number).

This show was released on Monday 24 November 2014; its running time is 00:40:06.

Show Notes

Segment 0 (00:34)

Note: Episode 0x5B was released out of sequence, but they are in the order of release date on faif.us (rather than numerical order by episode number).

Bradley and Karen introduce the interview.

Segment 1 (01:20)

November 11, 2014

[Get cast in Ogg/Vorbis
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Summary

Karen and Bradley announce Conservancy's DMCA filing and Conservancy and FSF's joint launch of the copyleft.org project, and then discuss Eileen Evans' FOSDEM 2014 talk, entitled Licensing Models and Building an Open Source Community.

This show was released on Tuesday 11 November 2014; its running time is 01:13:10.

Show Notes

Segment 0 (00:36)

Segment 1 (19:38)

This is a recording of Eileen Evans' FOSDEM 2014 talk, entitled Licensing Models and Building an Open Source Community. If you'd rather watch the video, which includes the slides from her talk, it's available on FOSDEM's site.

Segment 2 (46:40)


Tags: faif, commercial, licensing, non-profit, copyright, CLAs, copyleft

October 23, 2014

[Get cast in Ogg/Vorbis
                                          format] [Get cast in MP3 format] 0x5A: Gamergate's Free Software Connection

Summary

Note: Episode 0x5A was released out of sequence, but they are in the order of release date on faif.us (rather than numerical order).

Karen and Bradley discuss connections between the so-called “Gamergate” controversy and how it relates to the Free Software community and a few obvious legal issues.

This show was released on Thursday 23 October 2014; its running time is 00:55:31.

Show Notes

Segment 0 (00:37)


Tags: faif, commercial, tort, gender

October 9, 2014

[Get cast in Ogg/Vorbis
                                          format] [Get cast in MP3 format] 0x4F: Linus Torvalds' Comments at DebConf 2014

Summary

Bradley and Karen discuss and criticize comments made by Linus Torvalds at his Q&A during DebConf 2014 in Portland, OR on 29 August 2014.

This show was released on Thursday 9 October 2014; its running time is 00:38:51.

Show Notes

Segment 0 (00:37)

Bradley and Karen discuss the Q&A with Linus Torvalds at DebConf 2014 in Portland, OR on 29 August 2014. (01:09)

Segment 1 (04:30)


Tags: faif, GPL, FSF, licensing, Debian, gender, conferences

September 23, 2014

[Get cast in Ogg/Vorbis
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Summary

Bradley and Karen discuss the key differences between 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(6) organizations in the USA, and discuss recent refusals by the IRS to grant such statuses to Open Source and Free Software orgs.

This show was released on Tuesday 23 September 2014; its running time is 00:49:25.

Show Notes

Segment 0 (00:34)

Segment 1 (39:43)

Conservancy and OSI jointly announced a working group on IRS applications and denials. (40:49)


Tags: faif, non-profit, Form 1023

September 11, 2014

[Get cast in Ogg/Vorbis
                                          format] [Get cast in MP3 format] 0x4D: 2013 Interview: Poettering & Day on Sandboxed GNOME Applications

Summary

Karen Sandler interviews Lennart Poettering and Alan Day during the GNOME Asia Summit 2013. Bradley and Karen comment on this interview.

This show was released on Thursday 11 September 2014; its running time is 00:44:39.

Show Notes

Segment 0 (00:38)

Bradley and Karen introduce Karen's interview with Lennart Poettering and Alan Day.

Segment 1 (02:06)

Karen interviews Lennart Poettering and Alan Day about Lennart's Sandboxed Applications for GNOME talk at GNOME Asia Summit 2013.

Segment 1 (35:24)


Tags: faif, gnome

August 26, 2014

[Get cast in Ogg/Vorbis
                                          format] [Get cast in MP3 format] 0x4C: Copyleft vs permissive vs CLAs

Summary

Bradley and Karen discuss the talk, Copyleft vs. Permissive vs. Contributor License Agreements: A Veteran’s Perspective by Simo Sorce given at FOSDEM 2013 on Sunday 3 February 2013.

This show was released on Tuesday 26 August 2014; its running time is 01:14:47.

Show Notes

Segment 0 (00:00:38)

Bradley and Karen introduce Simo's talk.

Segment 1 (00:03:02)

The slides from Simo's talk are available, if you want to follow along

Segment 2 (00:59:50)

Segment 3 (01:10:22)

Bradley and Karen are still trying to decide what to do about the FOSDEM 2014 talks.


Tags: faif, GPL, licensing, copyright, CLAs

August 5, 2014

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Summary

Bradley and Karen host a panel discussion on CLAs with Van Lindberg and Richard Fontana.

This show was released on Tuesday 5 August 2014; its running time is 00:54:05.

Show Notes

Segment 0 (00:38)

Bradley and Karen introduce the panel discussion.

Segment 1 (01:28)

Segment 2 (48:17)


Tags: faif, commercial, licensing, CLAs

July 30, 2014

[Get cast in Ogg/Vorbis
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Summary

Bradley and Karen discuss Contributor Licensing Agreements, which pulls material from Bradley's blog posts on the subject.

This show was released on Wednesday 30 July 2014; its running time is 00:44:34.

Show Notes

Segment 0 (00:36)


Tags: faif, commercial, licensing, copyright, IBM, patents, CLAs

July 18, 2014

[Get cast in Ogg/Vorbis
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Summary

Bradley and Karen discuss the talk, Why the free software phone doesn't exist by Aaron Williamson given at FOSDEM 2013 on Sunday 3 February 2013.

This show was released on Friday 18 July 2014; its running time is 01:08:30.

Show Notes

Segment 0 (00:37)

Bradley and Karen introduce the talk.

Segment 1 (04:06)

Aaron's slides area available.

Segment 2 (56:41)


Tags: faif, mobile, FOSDEM, Restricted Boot

July 1, 2014

[Get cast in Ogg/Vorbis
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Summary

Bradley and Karen discuss the talk, copyleft-next: an Introduction by Richard Fontana given at FOSDEM 2013 on Sunday 3 February 2013.

This show was released on Tuesday 1 July 2014; its running time is 01:35:07.

Show Notes

Segment 0 (00:37)

Bradley and Karen introduce the talk.

Segment 1 (05:37)

The slides Fontana's talk on copyleft-next are available.

Segment 2 (01:06:51)


Tags: faif, GNU, GPL, FSF, copyright, Richard Fontana

June 19, 2014

[Get cast in Ogg/Vorbis
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Summary

Bradley and Karen discuss why software freedom as a political, social and moral issue is important to each of them personally.

This show was released on Thursday 19 June 2014; its running time is 01:09:27.

Show Notes

Segment 0 (00:36)


Tags: faif, social justice

June 3, 2014

[Get cast in Ogg/Vorbis
                                          format] [Get cast in MP3 format] 0x46: O'Sullivan's Legally Cementing Licences in Legislation

Summary

Bradley and Karen discuss the talk, Legally Cementing Licences in Legislation: Two Law Merchant Models for Free Software Licences by Maureen O’Sullivan given at FOSDEM 2013 on Sunday 3 February 2013.

This show was released on Tuesday 3 June 2014; its running time is 01:06:41.

Show Notes

Segment 0 (00:00:37)

Segment 1 (00:06:48)

Bradley and Karen introduce the talk.

Segment 2 (00:07:20)

This segment is the talk, Legally Cementing Licences in Legislation: Two Law Merchant Models for Free Software Licences by Maureen O’Sullivan given at FOSDEM 2013 on Sunday 3 February 2013. You can follow along with the slides.

Segment 3 (00:50:55)


Tags: faif, GPL, licensing, copyright

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