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Karen and Bradley discuss the debates regarding Apple's online store
restrictions that make it impossible to distribute GPL'd software via
Apple's store. Then, they discuss question the usefulness of the term
“Open Core”

Note: Bradley's audio was too low compared to Karen's on this
episode. We're still sorting out our recording issues, and apologize
for this. This is completely Bradley's fault: don't blame Producer
Dan. :)

Show Notes:

Segment 0 (00:34)

• Karen mentioned first href="http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2010-November/077486.html">Brett's
  statement on the VLC mailing list, although that is toward the end of
  the href="http://blogs.computerworld.com/17279/gplv2_blocks_vlc_from_apples_app_store">story
  that was covered last month. (05:30)
• Bradley mentioned that the story started with href="http://www.fsf.org/news/2010-05-app-store-compliance">FSF's
  enforcement regarding Apple's distribution of GNU Go in Apple's
  application store. (05:54)
• Don't confused GNU Go
  (the game) with Google Go (the
  programming language). Bradley pointed out that Google did assign
  some of its copyright on the language Go, for the href="http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2009-11/msg00297.html">GCC frontend for
  the Go language. (06:51)
• Bradley mentioned that the game Go has been around thousands of
  years, although according the href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(game)">Go Wikipedia entry,
  it's been around for approximately 2,500 years. (08:21)
• Bradley pointed out that the primary goal of GPL enforcement is to get
  compliance, not to get companies to cease distribution, but sometimes
  the companies prefer to cease distribution rather than complying with
  the license. (09:57)
• There was disagreement in the VLC community about the enforcement
  action (11:50). There's an href="http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2010-October/077325.html">original
  thread on the VLC mailing list that discussed this (12:35), and then href="http://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2010-November/077486.html">Brett's
  response on that list. (13:25)
• GPLv2 requires in § 6 that you cannot impose terms that restrict
  the downstream more than GPL otherwise does. (15:40)
• FSF made
  a statement that linked this issue to the DRM issue, which caused some
  confusion. It's our view that what Apple is doing against GPL software is
  part of their initiative to put DRM (both for software and more
  traditional content) onto devices. (17:20)
• Bradley mentioned that Apple lawyers have a pathological hatred of
  GPL, which he believes comes directly down from Steve Jobs, who began his
  dislike of GPL when he tried, while at NeXT, to distribute a proprietary
  front-end for GCC for Objective-C. (RMS discussed the story briefly in
  his essay href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/pragmatic.html">Copyleft:
  Pragmatic Idealism.) (23:45)

Segment 1 (27:40)

• Bradley href="http://identi.ca/conversation/57837518#notice-58401446">has decided
  that the term “Open Core” is so confusing that it's now
  useless.
• The href="http://julien.danjou.info/blog/2010.html#Gnus_news_is_good_news">Gnus
  IMAP backend is being rewritten, and
  Joel Adamson mentioned that
  he's href="http://identi.ca/conversation/57908375#notice-58462551">using Emacs
  development mainline and the new IMAP implementation is working
  well. (29:58)
• Alexandre Oliva started
  a project called href="http://www.fsfla.org/svnwiki/selibre/linux-libre/">Linux Libre,
  to remove proprietary software from Linux. (31:31)
• There is a href="http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=firmware/WHENCE;h=f22c4dfd0733c40ab6f28c439fc2d38608fb0b68;hb=HEAD">file
  called WHENCE in Linux that is a long list of proprietary software
  included inside Linux. href="http://identi.ca/conversation/57835813">Fontana linked the WHENCE
  file on identi.ca (31:02)
• Alexandre href="http://www.fsfla.org/svnwiki/anuncio/2010-11-Linux-2.6.36-libre-debait.en">made
  an announcement calling Linux an “Open Core” project.
  (32:56)
• Bradley mentioned that href="http://identi.ca/notice/58244009">Alexandre appears to have been
  convinced that Open Core is a problematic term in this context (during
  this identica
  conversation). Alexandre seems to be favoring the term “Free
  Bait” now. (35:16)
• Karen mentioned Nina Paley's href="http://ninapaley.com/mimiandeunice/2010/07/31/a-world-without-poop/">intellectual
  pooperty cartoon. (38:39)
• Bradley mentioned the href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sears-builds-on-success-of-softer-side-advertising-campaign-new-creative-asks-customers-to-take-another-look-76542702.html">softer
  side of Sears marketing campaign, which was used href="http://www.justinleader.com/annotatedbuffy/season1/wtthtranscript.html#1O">as
  a cruel joke by Cordelia in href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_to_the_Hellmouth">the pilot
  of href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffy_the_Vampire_Slayer_(TV_series)">Buffy
  the Vampire Slayer to make fun of href="http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/1/14787/477194-willow04_super.jpg">Willow's
  clothes. Sears apparently href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3092/is_5_38/ai_54121628/">dropped
  the campaign in 1999. (40:23)
• Join us on #faif on freenode and the !FaiFCast group on identi.ca (43:47)

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