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

Show Notes:

Segment 0 (00:00:37)

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• Karen href="https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2014/dec/24/supporter-importance/">mentioned
  her blog post about the supporter program. (00:08:30)
• Bradley href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2014/12/03/conservancy-supporter.html">mentioned
  his blog post about the supporter program as well. (00:09:30)

Segment 1 (00:16:16)

• Bradley and Karen pick up on a topic original discussed in Segment 1
  of FaiF 0x02.
  (00:16:50)
• Bradley discussed the href="http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/californialawreview/vol80/iss2/5/">Laurie
  Stearns' article from the California Law Review, entitled
  Copy Wrong: Plagiarism, Process, Property, and the Law
  (00:23:50)
• Bradley mentioned href="https://wiki.gnome.org/FoundationBoard/Resources/CopyrightAssignment/Guidelines">The
  GNOME Foundation Copyright Assignment Guidelines that he
  co-authored. (00:28:05)
• Bradley mentioned the href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Kearns_Goodwin#Plagiarism_controversy">Doris
  Kearns Goodwin Plagiarism controversy, and how it would have been
  simply redressed if the material she reused had been
  copylefted. (00:29:26)
• Karen mentioned that
  href="http://blog.flickr.net/en/2014/12/18/an-update-on-flickr-wall-art/">Flickr
  made different policies for CC-BY-SA'd works when selling printed
  versions. (32:30)
• Bradley mentioned that even software freedom advocates just comply
  with the copyleft licenses and don't work collaboratively, particularly
  during hostile forks, using href="https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2014/jul/15/why-kallithea/">Conservancy's
  Kallithea project as an example. (00:35:25)
• Bradley reiterated a point he made in href="http://faif.us/cast/2011/feb/01/0x08/">FaiF 0x08,
  where he discussed that Linus Torvalds switched to GPL for Linux because
  he realized non-commercial restrictions weren't appropriate. (00:37:50)
• Bradley mentioned the hostile fork of GCC called egcs. href="http://www.h-online.com/open/features/GCC-We-make-free-software-affordable-1066831.html%3Fpage=3">
  The H-Online years later wrote a long article that discussed the egcs fork
  egcs fork. (00:39:46)
• Bradley mentioned that plagiarism is ultimately about attribution, and
  modern DVCS systems makes attribution easy and renders plagiarism
  impossible (if DVCS logs are accurate). (00:44:15)
• Bradley mentioned that he continually has learned the lesson that if
  you let your employer keep copyright, you lose everything you had when you
  switch employers (if the work isn't copylefted). (00:47:00)
• Bradley discussed the methods of attribution required in
  GPLv3. (00:50:05)
• Bradley mentioned that copyright notices are the primary method of
  attribution in copyleft licenses, and even non-copyleft ones
  too. (00:53:19)
• Karen discussed the attribution requirements in href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode">text of
  CC-BY-SA 4.0. (00:53:49)
• Bradley wants to do a whole FaiF show about how CC-BY-SA
  may not be a true copyleft since it has no source code requirement
  (00:54:40)
• Bradley mentioned the “fake name” that film directors use
  when they wish to disavow a work they aren't happy with. The name is, in
  fact, Alan
  Smithee, and indeed the 1984 film href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_%28film%29">Dune
  lists Smithee as a director even though David Lynch is known publicly to
  be the director. (00:58:40)

• Bradley mentioned the href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2011/03/11/linux-red-hat-gpl.html">unfair
  accusations against Red Hat when they stopped publishing their internal
  Linux Git repository and instead released a more standard
  ChangeLog. (01:05:30)

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