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Bradley and Karen give a basic introduction of copyright licensing of
Open Source and Free Software.

Show Notes:

Segment 0 (00:35)

• Bradley mentioned the phrase href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/fixed_in_a_tangible_medium_of_expression">“fixed
  in a tangible medium” which appears in the USA copyright law. (03:10)
• Bradley mentioned the href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Antitrust_Act">Sherman Antitrust
  act. (04:05)
• Bradley mentioned the card game href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit_%28game%29">Pit (04:15)
• Bradley
  jokingly quoted Mit
  Romney's famous gaffe, “Corporations are people, my friend.”
  (04:44)
• Bradley read href="http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html">Title 17, the USA
  Copyright act many times. (06:50)
• Bradley mentioned the court case, href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX_System_Laboratories,_Inc._v._Berkeley_Software_Design,_Inc.">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 href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html">FSF's Free Software Definition
  (13:11)
• Bradley mentioned OSI's
  Open Source Definition (13:16)
• Apparently, the problem of categorization is called href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorization">Categorization in
  Philosophy. (14:30)
• The issue of Open Source not being trademarked is discussed in href="https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.en.html">this
  essay by Richard Stallman. (15:44)
• The basic categorizations of types of FLOSS licenses are href="https://copyleft.org/">copyleft and non-copyleft.
• Karen suggests reading GPLv2 and GPLv3. (39:31)
• Bradley made a href="http://ebb.org/bkuhn/talks/OSCON-EU-2015/license-spectrum.svg">crude
  drawing of the spectrum of licenses. (40:20)
• Bradley mentioned the href="https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/principles.html">The
  Principles of Community-Oriented GPL Enforcement (55:40)

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