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Karen and Bradley play and discuss href="http://fosdem.org/2012/schedule/speaker/michael_meeks">Michael
Meeks's FOSDEM 2012 talk, href="http://fosdem.org/2012/schedule/event/risks_vs_benefits_on_copyright_assignment">Risks
and Benefits of Copyright Assignment from the href="http://fosdem.org/2012/schedule/track/legal_issues_devroom">FOSDEM
2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom.

Show Notes:

Segment 0 (00:35)

Bradley and Karen introduce Michael's talk.

Segment 1 (01:56)

Michael's href="/cast-media/FaiF_0x26_Meeks-On-Copyright-Assignment_slides.pdf">slides
are available from faif.us and href="http://people.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2012-02-04.html">from his
blog post on the talk.

Segment 2 (26:47)

• Bradley mentioned GNU
  Mediagoblin as an example of a true upstream multi-copyright-holder
  AGPLv3'd
  project. (28:10)
• Bradley mentioned that LibreOffice is “wealthy” as well
  by Michael Meeks standards, given their href="http://blog.documentfoundation.org/2011/02/16/libreoffice-community-starts-50000-euro-challenge-for-setting-up-its-foundation/">successful
  fundraisers. (29:38)
• Bradley mentioned the href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2011/08/21/desktop-summit.html">Desktop
  Summit panel that he and Michael were on and Karen moderated.
  (34:06)
• href="http://live.gnome.org/CopyrightAssignment/Guidelines">Bradley and
  Michael co-authored (with Vincent Untz) the GNOME Copyright Assignment
  Guidelines. (35:30)
• FSF was
  previously supportive of MySQL AB back in 2002, but Michael also
  used to support the Sun JCA. (38:20)

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