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July 17, 2013

Episode 0x3F: FOSDEM 2013 - AGPLv3 Panel Discussion

Summary

Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss The panel discussion on the GNU Affero General Public License from FOSDEM 2013.

This show was released on Wednesday 17 July 2013; its running time is 01:28:47.

Show Notes

Segment 0 (00:00:38)

Bradley asked for donations again to Conservancy's NPO accounting software campaign and Karen asked for donations to GNOME's Privacy Campaign.

Segment 1 (00:04:50)

This is the Panel Discussion: GNU Affero General Public License, version 3 from FOSDEM 2013. The speakers, in the order their voices are heard, are Tom Marble (introduction), Richard Fontana (moderator), Bradley M. Kuhn, Eileen Evans, and Christopher Allan Webber.

Segment 2 (01:06:47)

Bradley mentioned the phrase Give me convenience or give me death, which is from a title of the Dead Kennedys album he suggested applied to the selection of proprietary software (01:10:10)
Bradley mentioned RMS' recent update to his Who does that server really serve? essay. (01:11:30)

Bradley mentioned his blog post on doing VoIP encryption with Free Software. (01:14:04)
Bradley mentioned his talk entitled The Affero GPLv3: Why It Exists & Who It's For? at the Southern California Linux Expo 11x. The slides are available and the sources for the slides are available. (01:17:30)

Tags: faif, FSF, FOSDEM, AGPL

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)

Tags: faif, GPL, licensing, FOSDEM, AGPL

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!