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March 9, 2021
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0x6C: Even More DMCA Exemption Requests!
Summary
Karen and Bradley discuss two other DMCA exemptions filed by Software Freedom Conservancy during the 2020/2021 Triennial Rulemaking Process at the copyright office: one for wireless router firmwares and one for privacy research.This show was released on Tuesday 9 March 2021; its running time is 00:52:52.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:39)
- Supporters of Conservancy can join this mailing list to hear and see live recordings of every show!
Segment 1 (06:30)
- Conservancy filed a DMCA exemption request for wireless routers, and updated it with their long comment on the issue.
- NPR's Planet Money had a show that discussed how recycling plastic in the USA was somewhat of a large con game funded by the plastics industry. Both audio a transcript is available. (19:32, 20:44)
Segment 2 (29:10)
- Bradley and Karen discuss the third exemption request that Conservancy filed, for research to find privacy flaws, and updated it with a long comment on the issue.
- Karen and Bradley noted that individuals can file reply comments before the deadline of Wednesday 10 March 2021 at 23:59 US/Eastern. Note that the “neutral comment” requirement appears to no longer be listed; the 2021-03-10 (47:20)
January 14, 2021
0x6B: GPL Enforcement Investigation DMCA Exemption Request
Summary
Software Freedom Conservancy filed multiple exemptions in the USA Copyright Office Triennial Rulemaking Process under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). In this episode, Karen and Bradley explore the details of Conservancy's filing to request permission to circumvent technological restriction measures in order to investigate infringement of other people's copyright, which is a necessary part of investigations of alleged violations of the GPL and other copyleft licenses.This show was released on Thursday 14 January 2021; its running time is 00:51:45.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:39)
- Bradley claims that you'll now love the audcast more than ever (02:51)
- Conservancy filed many exemptions as part of the currently ongoing triennial DMCA Process. (02:50)
Segment 1 (04:22)
- Everyone in the Free Software community wishes the USA's Digital Millennium Copyright Act didn't exist. (05:24)
- Bradley is currently doing research going to the year 1790 that shows the foundations of the copyright act, but Karen points out that Bradley isn't a professional copyright historian (yet). He points out he is an amateur copyright historian (05:45)
- DMCA is the USA's implementation of the WIPO Copyright Treaty (WCT), but is more a restrictive copyright act than the WCT requires. (06:50)
- Bradley mentioned that the three videos from the Copyright Office, which are linked to from Conservancy's blog post on the subject that, while they are Copyright Office propaganda, that are helpful to explain the DMCA (10:57):
- Conservancy filed the most exemption requests in the 2020/2021 Rulemaking Process (21:25)
Segment 2 (28:07)
- Conservancy filed an exemption request and a “Long Form” comment in support of it that was labeled “Class 16: Computer Programs &—; Copyright License Investigation” by the Copyright Office (29:00)
- Bradley mentioned that people can get arrested just for giving talks under the DMCA, referring to Dmitry Sklyarov. Adobe simply called the FBI and got him arrested under DMCA. (38:50)
Segment 3 (34:36)
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March 31, 2020
0x6A: Live Show from SeaGL 2019
Summary
The first live podcast of Free as in Freedom, hosted at SeaGL 2019 in November 2019. Hear questions from the studio audience and answers from Bradley and Karen.
This show was released on Tuesday 31 March 2020; its running time is 1:21:02.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:38)
Producer Dan speaks on mic to introduce that this is a live show.
Segment 1 (01:17)
- This is a live show from SeaGL 2019, a community-organized FaiP (02:15)
- Carol Smith from Microsoft asked about being a charity in the USA under recent tax changes regarding tax deduction and, and asked about Conservancy's annual fundraiser which had completed by the time this show was released. (04:53)
- Deb took a photo during the show (07:30)
- A questioner asked about the so-called “ethical but-non-FOSS licenses”. Bradley gave an answer that is supplemented well by this blog post (10:15) and Karen mentioned at CopyleftConf 2020 there was a discussion about this. (15:15) The follow up question was also related to these topics (15:44).
- Eric Hopper asked about how Conservancy decides when a project joins, and what factors Conservancy considers in projects joining (18:14)
- A written questioner asked how to handle schools requiring proprietary software as part of their coursework. (22:00)
- Michael Dexter asked about Karen's teaching at Columbia Law School. (27:25)
- A written questioner asked about copyleft-next's sunset clause. (29:22) Karen mentioned “Copyleft, All wrongs reversed” as it appeared on n June 1976 on Tiny BASIC, which inspired the term copyleft to mean what it does today. (30:45)
- Karen spoke about the issues of copyright and trademark regarding Disney, that is supplemented by this blog post. (32:52)
- Carol Smith asked what Karen and Bradley thought were Conservancy's and/or FOSS' biggest achievements in the last decade. (35:20) Karen mentioned Outreachy was a major success. (37:08)
- A questioner asked about using the CASE Act to help in GPL enforcement. Bradley discussed how it might ultimately introduce problems similar to arbitration clauses. (41:42) Since the podcast was recorded, the CASE Act has also passed the Senate, but does not seem to have been signed by the President. (47:30)
- Bradley noted that Mako Hill has pointed out that FOSS has not been involved in lobbying enough. (48:10)
- A questioner in the audience asked about the Mozilla Corporation structure would allow Mozilla to do lobbying for FOSS. (50:57) Karen explained the Mozilla corporate legal structure (51:35).
- A questioner in the audience asked about Mako Hill's keynote and how individuals can help further the cause of software freedom. (54:53)
- Michael Dexter asked if software patents are still as much of a threat as they once were. (1:01:30)
- Carol asked about the supreme court hearing the Oracle v. Google case (1:09:04)
November 12, 2019
0x69: Microsoft's E-Book Platform and Other DRM Disasters
Summary
Karen and Bradley discuss the end to Microsoft's e-book platform and generally the dangers and disasters that Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) cause for software users and developers.
This show was released on Tuesday 12 November 2019; its running time is 00:46:57.
Show Notes
Karen and Bradley discuss the end to Microsoft's e-book platform and generally the dangers and disasters that Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) cause for software users and developers.
Segment 0 (00:35)
- Bradley mentioned that Microsoft ended their e-book platform. He said this was “last month” but we ended up releasing this show late, so it was in August 2019 (01:31).
- Bradley mentioned the analog hole. (09:50)
- Karen discussed the exception process under DMCA, which Conservancy participated in regarding “Smart” TVs. (12:30)
- Bradley mentioned this historical burning of the Library of Alexandria as a Roman weapon, comparing it to DRM. (15:07)
- Bradley talked about how Netflix and Microsoft used Silverlight initially as the method of DRM, and that Microsoft was a leader in the entertainment industry in providing DRM (20:00)
Segment 1 (26:31)
- Bradley and Karen discuss how DRM and other lock-down of devices, including medical devices, are creating problems in society generally.
- Karen noted that the role of for-profit companies is not to safeguard the public interest. (41:10)
- Bradley mentioned you can turn off DRM on the Google Play store for your book (as the publisher). (43:04)
May 31, 2019
0x68: Molly De Blanc at CopyleftConf 2019
Summary
Bradley and Karen enjoy and discuss Molly De Blanc's keynote at the first annual CopyleftConf, entitled The Margins of Software Freedom, followed by an exclusive interview with Molly!
This show was released on Friday 31 May 2019; its running time is 00:58:07.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:37)
- Bradley mentioned (without the title) the film, When a Stranger Calls, which is indeed a real movie, not a TV movie, and was from the late 1970s — although Bradley saw it on TV sometime in the 1980s. (02:15)
- Bradley and Karen discuss what ideas Molly's interview got them thinking about.
- Bradley wrote a blog post about Delta's anti-union marketing. (40:50)
- Molly De Blanc is now an employee at the GNOME Foundation and President of the Open Source Initiative (52:53)
Segment 1 (04:11)
A recording of Molly De Blanc's keynote at the first annual (2019) CopyleftConf, entitled entitled The Margins of Software Freedom. Slides for Molly's talk are available on her gitlab account.
Segment 2 (20:11)
Bradley and Karen talk about the keynote and set up the interview.
Segment 3 (23:56)
Extended interview with Molly from on site at CopyleftConf 2019!
Segment 4 (34:06)
May 11, 2019
0x67: Analysis of Two Backports of GPLv3 Termination Provisions to GPLv2
Summary
Bradley and Karen discuss two additional permissions that can be used to “backport” the GPLv3 Termination provisions to GPLv2 — the Kernel Enforcement Statement Additional Permission, and the Red Hat Cooperation Commitment. A blog post on Conservancy's site summarizes the discussion on this show.
This show was released on Saturday 11 May 2019; its running time is 00:41:56.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:35)
- Bradley mentioned irregardless is not actually a word, but it does appear to be slang, which dates back to 1795! (03:23)
- The additional permission system was codified as a formal part of GPLv3, but are generally more informal under GPLv2. (05:24)
- Karen explained what the Principles of Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement. (07:49)
- Karen mentioned that Daleks
terminate!
(08:51)
Segment 1 (13:04)
- Bradley mentioned the inbound=outbound FOSS licensing contributor assent system (18:15)
Segment 2 (26:10)
- Karen and Bradley discuss the term “non-defensive” and what it means.
- Bradley mentioned the Twin Peaks lawsuit as a non-hypothetical case where the RHCC would not apply where GPL enforcement was used by Red Hat itself as a retaliation tactic. (29:23)
- The Kernel Enforcement Statement and the RHCC are available online.
Segment 3 (38:40)
The next episode of will be an interview with Molly De Blanc and recording of her keynote at CopyleftConf 2019
April 22, 2019
0x66: The End of Hellwig vs. VMware
Summary
Bradley and Karen discuss the details of the completion of the lawsuit (which Conservancy supported) between Christoph Hellwig and VMware in Germany.
This show was released on Monday 22 April 2019; its running time is 00:38:29.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:37)
- Bradley mentioned the episode of Red Dwarf, White Hole, where the characters are speaking too slowly or two quickly due to time differentials. (01:30)
- Bradley explained that the Hellwig vs. VMware suit in Germany has concluded. (03:30)
- German is a civil law legal system. (05:15)
- Christoph Hellwig announced on his website that he has decided not to appeal. (07:18)
- Bradley did a technical analysis how much of Christoph's code appeared in the infringing VMware product. (07:50)
- Till Jaeger was Christoph's lawyer; Till was also the lawyer for Harald Welte's (currently defunct) gpl-violations.org project. (09:04)
Segment 1 (09:26)
- “Trolling” refers to being a non-practicing entity. Patrick McHardy is specifically a practicing entity, since he upstreamed a lot of code in Linux. (09:50)
- Bradley was thinking of the patent troll, Intellectual Ventures. (10:40)
- Bradley that the Eastern district of Texas hears many patent cases in the USA. (10:50)
- Bradley mentioned a This American Life, Episode 411, which discussed patents. Show hosts/producers Laura Sydell and Alex Blumberg visit one of those “empty-but-not” office buildings in the Eastern District of Texas. (11:18)
- Bradley and Karen wrote about Patrick McHardy's behavior back in July 2016 — Conservancy was the first to talk about it publicly. Bradley sought to prevent the “compliance industrial complex” from using knowledge of Patrick's behavior to unduly scare people. (13:10)
- Conservancy (with FSF) also published the Principles of Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement (15:10)
- The rest of the Netfilter team, except for Patrick McHardy, endorsed the Principles. (16:30)
- The VMware suit started 2015-03-05, and began before Patrick McHardy started his problematic behavior. While the VMware suit was working its way through the court, McHardy had filed many inappropriate lawsuits. (18:30)
- German court decisions are very rarely published, but thanks to hard work by everyone involved, the appeal decision, and the lower Court's decision (the latter of which was also translated into English.) (27:30)
Segment 2 (33:01)
April 2, 2019
0x65: Linux Foundation's Community Bridge
Summary
Bradley and Karen discuss and critique the new initiative by the Linux Foundation called CommunityBridge. The podcast includes various analysis that expands upon their blog post about Linux Foundation's CommunityBridge.This show was released on Tuesday 2 April 2019; its running time is 00:47:17.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:36)
- Conservancy helped Free Software Foundation and GNOME Foundation begin fiscal sponsorship work. (07:50)
- Conservancy has always been very coordinated with Software in the Public Interest, which is a FOSS fiscal sponsor that predates Conservancy. (08:26)
- Conservancy helped NumFocus get started as a fiscal sponsor by providing advice. (08:53)
- The above are all 501(c)(3) charities, but there are also 501(c)(6) fiscal sponsors, such as Linux Foundation and Eclipse Foundation. (10:00)
- Bradley mentioned that projects that are forks can end up in different fiscal sponsors, such as Hudson being in Eclipse Foundation, and Jenkins being associated with a Linux Foundation sub-org. (10:30)
- Bradley mentioned that any project — be it SourceForge, GitHub, or Community Bridge — that attempts to convince FOSS developers to use proprietary software for their projects is immediately suspect (12:00)
- Open Collective, a for-profit company seeking to do fiscal sponsorship (but attempting to release their code for it) is likely under the worst “competitive” threat from this initiative. (19:50)
Segment 1 (21:23)
- Projects that use CommunityBridge are required to act in the common business interest of the Linux Foundation members. (27:30)
- Board of Directors seats at the Linux Foundation are for sale, according to their by-laws. (28:50)
- Bradley advises that you should not put anything copylefted into CommunityBridge — given Linux Foundation's position on copyleft and citing the ArduPilot/DroneCode example. (29:50)
- CommunityBridge appears to only allow governance based on the “benevolent dictator for life model” (31:40), at least with regard to who controls the money (34:30)
- Bradley mentioned the LWN article about Community Bridge. (33:22)
Segment 2 (36:54)
- Karen mentioned that CommunityBridge also purports to address diversity and security issues for FOSS projects. (37:00)
- Bradley mentioned the code hosted on k.sfconservancy.org and also the Reimbursenator project that PSU students wrote. (42:00)
Segment 3 (42:44)
Bradley and Karen discuss (or, possibly don't) discuss what's coming up on the next episode. Fact of the matter is that this announcement wasn't written yet when we recorded this episode and we weren't sure if 0x65 would be released before or after that announcement was released. We'll be discussing that topic on 0x66.
March 27, 2019
0x64: Our Producer Dan Lynch Interviewed at Copyleft Conf 2019
Summary
Bradley and Karen interview their own producer, Dan Lynch, on site at Copyleft Conf 2019.
This show was released on Wednesday 27 March 2019; its running time is 00:36:00.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:46)
- Karen now teaches teaches a course at Columbia University. (03:40)
- In addition to being the producer of Free as in Freedom, Dan Lynch was the host of Rat Hole Radio, the co-host of Linux Outlaws, and currently co-hosts Hollywood Outlaws. (04:30)
Segment 1 (5:19)
- Dan helps co-organize Oggcamp which is having its tenth-anniversary event on Saturday 19 October 2019. (08:00)
- Bradley mentioned the phrase from IT Crowd
quote:
Did you see that ludicrous display last night?
(11:08) - Dan talked about The Manchester Ship Canal. (13:16)
- Dan promoted Hollywood Outlaws where he and his co-host Fab talk about Bosch. (23:18)
- Dan promoted his own podcast about comics called Tales of the Unattested. (23:27)
- Dan Lynch has a personal website, which has his blog. (23:55)
- Bradley referenced the phrase
You are no Jack Kennedy
which was stated by Bentsen on Wednesday 5 October 1988 during the VP debate between Quayle and Bentsen for the 1988 USA Presidential campaign. Details and background of this are explained by NBC in this story. (26:30)
Segment 2 (28:23)
Bradley and Karen briefly dissect the interview with Dan.
Segment 3 (32:22)
Karen and Bradley mention that they'll discuss the Linux Foundation initiative, “Community Bridge” in the next episode. If you want a preview Bradley and Karen's thoughts, you can read their blog post about Linux Foundation's “Community Bridge” initiative.
March 20, 2019
0x63: Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today? (Part IV)
Summary
In their final installment regarding their joint keynote at FOSDEM 2019, entitled: Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today?: Confessions of Activists Who Try But Fail to Avoid Proprietary Software, you listeners can hear the final product — a recording of the actual FOSDEM keynote. Afterwards, Karen and Bradley compare notes on what went wrong and what went right (but mostly what went wrong) during the talk.
This show was released on Wednesday 20 March 2019; its running time is 01:10:28.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:00:35)
Bradley and Karen talk logistics of how the talk is embedded in the audio.
Segment 1 (00:04:14)
The audio in this segment taken directly from the video of Karen and Bradley's FOSDEM 2019 opening keynote, entitled Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today? Confessions of Activists Who Try But Fail to Avoid Proprietary Software, which was given . If you'd rather watch the video, you can do so via FSODEM's video site in either webm format or in mp4 format.
Segment 2 (00:46:01)
- Karen mentioned “time shifting”, which was permitted for the public, despite accusations of copyright infringement, in the Betamax case. (55:10)
Segment 3 (01:05:31)
Karen and Bradley mention that the next episode will be an interview with Dan Lynch recorded at CopyleftConf 2019.
March 12, 2019
0x62: Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today? (Part III)
Summary
Bradley and Karen have the last pre-talk installment of discussing the preparation for their joint keynote at FOSDEM 2019, entitled: Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today?: Confessions of Activists Who Try But Fail to Avoid Proprietary Software. This episode is the third of three episodes where Bradley and Karen record their preparation conversations for this keynote address. In this particular episode, they discuss the issue of letting others use proprietary software on your behalf, the problem of relying too much on that, and then finish up discussing with how they'll include this material into the final talk.
This show was released on Tuesday 12 March 2019; its running time is 00:28:00.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:34)
- Karen discussed the idea of a shabbos goy, and the analogy between that and allowing other people use proprietary on your behalf. (02:58)
- Bradley and Karen discussed that it is equally abhorrent to ask someone else to use proprietary software for you as it is to use yourself, since someone's software freedom is compromised in any event (06:58)
- Bradley mentioned that he had previously applied to serve on the USA's Internal Revenue Service (IRS)'s Electronic Tax Administration Advisory Committee (ETAAC). Bradley mentioned how sadly the IRS typically accepts people from proprietary software companies like Intuit but has to his knowledge never accepted anyone involved in FOSS software for IRS form preparation (10:02)
- Bradley mentioned the Free Software PDF fill-in tools evince and flpsed (12:24)
- Karen stated that Conservancy's policy is that:
We care so much about software freedom that we would rather use proprietary software than have someone else lose their software freedom
. (15:20) - Karen mentioned that her Linux Conf Australia 2019, Right to Not Broadcast, which you can view online. (22:18)
Segment 1 (23:15)
- Bradley mentioned the A-Team line, “I love it when a plan comes together”. (23:23)
- Bradley and Karen generally discuss the final plans for incorporating this material into the keynote
February 19, 2019
0x61: Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today? (Part II)
Summary
Bradley and Karen continue the process of preparing their joint keynote at FOSDEM 2019, entitled: Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today?: Confessions of Activists Who Try But Fail to Avoid Proprietary Software. This episode is the second of three episodes where Bradley and Karen record their preparation conversations for this keynote address. In this particular episode, they discuss the golden age in history when they used very little proprietary software, and then discuss the beginning of their personal Dark Ages of using some proprietary software.
This show was released on Tuesday 19 February 2019; its running time is 00:35:23.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:35)
- Bradley mentioned The Who's destruction of their instruments and his discomfort with it in relation to computers. (06:10)
- Bradley and Karen mentioned their long-time use of the HTC Dream (07:30)
- Bradley mentioned that he helped start the Replicant project, but his primary contribution was its name. (08:24)
Segment 1 (12:34)
- Karen mentioned the pinball machine that she owns. (12:50)
- Bradley mentioned the Dead Kennedys album, Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death. (25:10)
- Karen and Bradley discuss proprietary Javascript. (28:20)
- This is the screen you get if you attempt to use Google maps without Javascript. (28:45) Karen was wrong about this image no longer appearing. The image linked to here is from the day before our FOSDEM keynote was delivered. (29:55)
- Bradley and Karen recorded this episode while on site at LinuxConf Australia 2019. They had dinner the night this was recorded at a restaurant called, Dux Dine in Christchurch, NZ. There were, in fact, ducks dining at Dux Dine. (35:07)
January 13, 2019
0x60: Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today? (Part I)
Summary
Bradley and Karen pull back the curtain and begin the process of preparing their joint keynote at FOSDEM 2019, entitled: Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today?: Confessions of Activists Who Try But Fail to Avoid Proprietary Software. This episode is the first of multiple episodes where Bradley and Karen record their preparation conversations for this keynote address.
This show was released on Sunday 13 January 2019; its running time is 00:36:37.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:36)
Bradley and Karen discuss the plan to do prep for their FOSDEM keynote “on air” as part of FaiF broadcasts.Segment 1 (07:13)
- Bradley read out the abstract from Bradley and Karen's keynote, Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today? Confessions of Activists Who Try But Fail to Avoid Proprietary Software at FOSDEM 2019. (circa 10:00)
- This started for Bradley with the HTC Dream, and Karen's struggle started with her heart device (10:42)
- Bradley and Karen discussed how they plan to organize their FOSDEM 2019 joint keynote.
- Bradley mentioned that if Karen and Bradley recorded an episode of the two of them reading Lorem Ipsum that listeners would likely still listen. Karen disagreed. (33:05)
December 31, 2018
0x5F: Was 2018 the Year of Non-FOSS Licensing?
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)
November 1, 2016
0x5E: Conservancy's ContractPatch Initiative
Summary
Bradley and Karen discuss Conservancy's ContractPatch Initiative that will help Free Software developers negotiate their agreements with employers.
This show was released on Tuesday 1 November 2016; its running time is 00:50:29.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:38)
- Software Freedom Conservancy has two blog posts and a mailing list to discuss the Contract Patch initiative (02:40).
- Bradley searched for the NPR story he mentioned but just couldn't find it, but he did fine a similar one covering terms of service agreements (08:30)
- Karen mentioned the the Outreachy Project of Conservancy. (09:30)
- The Google Map API ToS states that you have to pay for it after a certain amount of usage (17:30)
- Bradley mentioned the book, What Color Is Your Parachute? (24:30)
- The “put it in writing” commercials from AT&T and MCI. (46:44)
September 21, 2016
0x5D: Conference Report, 1st Half of 2016
Summary
Bradley and Karen discuss Conservancy's conference trips and presentations during the first half of 2016.
This show was released on Wednesday 21 September 2016; its running time is 00:53:28.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:38)
- Bradley attended and spoke at FOSDEM 2016 and LinuxConf Australia 2016 (03:10)
- Bradley and Karen co-coordinated the FOSDEM 2016 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom (04:43)
- Tom Marble did an interview-format discussion with Richard M. Stallman at FOSDEM 2016 (04:55)
- Bradley gave two talks at FOSDEM 2016, Copyleft For the Next Decade: A Comprehensive Plan for the GPL and A Beautiful Build: Releasing Linux Source Correctly (06:40)
- Richard Fontana gave a talk at FOSDEM 2016 entitled Open source foundations: threat or menace? (08:15)
- The Doge
take on FOSDEM 2016 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom was
Much politics. Many peoples.
(11:00) - There was a Conservancy Supporter event at the Novotel Grand Place in Brussels at FOSDEM 2016. (14:00)
- Bradley gave a talk at LCA 2016. (15:20)
- Karen gave the closing keynote at LibrePlanet 2016, entitled Companies, free software, and you . (16:54)
- Karen Sandler gave a talk at the Linux Foundation's Embedded Linux Conference 2016 entitled Tales of Enforcement (27:00)
- Karen gave a talk at at the Postgres Conference in New York. (34:26)
- Bradley and Karen were both on a panels at OSCON. (35:00)
- Bradley and Karen flipped burgers (vegan ones and otherwise) at the OSCON 2016 party. (39:30)
- Bradley gave a keynote at OSS 2016. (45:05)
- Bradley spoke at two user groups in Norway as well. He hasn't made the blog post he mentioned yet, but plans to. (45:50)
- Karen mentioned Episode 0x4A which discussed the OpenStack CLA debate. (50:50)
September 2, 2016
0x5C: Basic FLOSS Concepts: Licensing 101
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)
August 18, 2016
0x59: Audio Killed the Video Star
Summary
Bradley and Karen discuss the plan for restarting Free as in Freedom and plans for episodes to come.
This show was released on Thursday 18 August 2016; its running time is 00:26:59.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:36)
- Bradley said
in the before time — in the long long ago
, which is a reference to the South Park parody of the ST:TOS episode, Miri (01:30) - Bradley mentioned when Karen Sandler left the GNOME Foundation and took over Bradley's old job as Executive Director of Conservancy. (02:20)
- Karen mentioned that Bradley used to be Executive Director of the Free Software Foundation, a position now held by John Sullivan. (03:25)
- Dan blogged about his illness, details of scheduling surgery, which he occurred successfully. (10:28)
- Karen mentioned the Conservancy Supporter program discussed in detail on Episode 0x57. (12:40)
- Bradley mentioned the short lived Jon Masters Linux Kernel Mailing List Summary Podcast. (14:45)
- Karen and Bradley discussed Video Killed the Radio Star by the Buggles, and Bradley attempted to mention this version which he likes better. (17:36)
- Bradley mentioned Kantian Ethics (20:05)
- Bradley mentioned the Portlanda skit, Rent it Out from S04E02 (20:24)
- Karen mentioned WellDeserved: A Marketplace for Privilege (20:38)
July 14, 2016
0x58: Debian Copyright Aggregation
Summary
Bradley and Karen discuss Conservancy's Debian Copyright Aggregation project. (Note: While it was released just after DebConf16, this episode was recorded well before DebConf16; the discussions about DebConf refer to DebConf15.)
This show was released on Thursday 14 July 2016; its running time is 00:39:32.
Show Notes
Segment 0 (00:38)
Note: While it was released just after DebConf16, this episode was recorded well before DebConf16; the discussions about DebConf refer to DebConf15.
- Bradley mentioned his talk at DebConf. This was recorded before DebConf 16, so Bradley is talking about DebConf 15, which was summarized in this blog post and his keynote from DebConf15. A video of that talk is available. (02:00)
- Bradley mentioned this bug about the copyright notice on the Debian website (07:47)
- Ian Jackson asked about bequeathing copyright at Bradley's talk. (15:45)
November 24, 2015
0x57: Support Conservancy Now!
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
- Bradley mentioned Cygnus Solutions, ultimately acquired by Red Hat, which was an early for-profit supporter of copylefted projects.
- Bradley and Karen discussed the VMware lawsuit.
- Chris Webber wrote this blog post in response to a Shane Curcuru, who is VP of Brand Management at the Apache Software Foundation, anti-copyleft talk at OSCON 2015. Shane's talk is consistent with Apache Software Foundation's historical and recent anti-copyleft positions (12:23)