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Bradley and Karen return, as promised, in 2018 (just barely)! They
discuss the many non-FOSS and otherwise software-freedom-unfriendly
licenses that have been promulgated in 2018.

Show Notes:

Segment 0 (00:36)

Bradley and Karen discuss ideas for what to do with the oggcast going
forward.

Segment 2 (07:49)

• Bradley mentioned the field of endeavor restriction in href=:"https://opensource.org/osd-annotated">Open Source Defintion. (09:20)
• Bradley mentioned how badly Amazon treats its workers who pack boxes,
  which was href="https://www.npr.org/2018/12/22/679546929/working-the-holidays-as-an-amazon-worker">widely
  reported this month (10:22).
• Bradley referenced that someone changed attempted to change a license
  on a project to prohibit use by USA border protection agents. This was
  the Lerna project, and href="https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2018/aug/30/big-tent/">Bradley wrote
  a blog post about it earlier this year. (12:14)
• Bradley mentioned the controversy about the new MongoDB license, the
  SS Public License, which href="https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2018/oct/16/mongodb-copyleft-drafting/">Bradley
  also wrote a blog post about earlier this year (14:09)
• karen reports that many people at the href="https://sustainoss.org/">Sustain OSS Conference were surprised
  that sustaining the idelogy of software freedom was something that people
  value. (27:10)

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