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Free as in Freedom0x6C: Even More DMCA Exemption Requests!
Karen and Bradley discuss two other DMCA exemptions filed by Software
Freedom Conservancy during the 2020/2021 Triennial Rulemaking Process at
the copyright office: one for wireless router firmwares and one for
privacy research.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:39)
Supporters of
Conservancy can join this
mailing list to hear and see live recordings of every show!
Segment 1 (06:30)
Conservancy filed a DMCA
exemption request for wireless routers, and updated it with their long
comment on the issue.
NPR's
Planet Money had a show that discussed how recycling plastic in
the USA was somewhat of a...2021-03-0952 minFree as in Freedom0x6B: GPL Enforcement Investigation DMCA Exemption Request
Software Freedom Conservancy filed multiple exemptions in the USA
Copyright Office Triennial Rulemaking Process under the Digital Millennium
Copyright Act (DMCA). In this episode, Karen and Bradley explore the
details of Conservancy's filing to request permission to circumvent
technological restriction measures in order to investigate infringement of
other people's copyright, which is a necessary part of investigations of
alleged violations of the GPL and other copyleft licenses.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:39)
Bradley claims that you'll now love the audcast more than ever
(02:51)
Conservancy filed many exemptions as part of the currently ongoing
triennial...2021-01-1451 minFree as in Freedom0x6A: Live Show from SeaGL 2019
The first live podcast of Free as in Freedom, hosted at SeaGL
2019 in November 2019. Hear questions from the studio audience and
answers from Bradley and Karen.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:38)
Producer Dan speaks on mic to introduce that this is a live show.
Segment 1 (01:17)
This is a live show from SeaGL 2019, a
community-organized FaiP
(02:15)
Carol Smith from Microsoft asked about being a charity in the USA
under recent tax changes regarding tax deduction and, and asked about Conservancy's
annual fundraiser which had completed by the time this...2020-03-311h 21Free as in Freedom0x69: Microsoft's E-Book Platform and Other DRM Disasters
Karen and Bradley discuss the end to Microsoft's e-book platform and
generally the dangers and disasters that Digital Restrictions Management
(DRM) cause for software users and developers.
Show Notes:
Karen and Bradley discuss the end to Microsoft's e-book platform and
generally the dangers and disasters that Digital Restrictions Management
(DRM) cause for software users and developers.
Segment 0 (00:35)
Bradley mentioned that Microsoft ended
their e-book platform. He said this was “last month” but
we ended up releasing this show late, so it was in August 2019
(01:31).
Bradley mentioned the analog hole...2019-11-1246 minFree as in Freedom0x68: Molly De Blanc at CopyleftConf 2019
Bradley and Karen enjoy and discuss Molly De Blanc's keynote at the
first annual CopyleftConf, entitled The Margins of Software Freedom, followed by an exclusive interview with Molly!
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:37)
Bradley mentioned (without the title) the film, When
a Stranger Calls, which is indeed a real movie, not a TV movie,
and was from the late 1970s —
although Bradley saw it on TV sometime in the 1980s. (02:15)
Segment 1 (04:11)
A recording of Molly De
Blanc's keynote at the first annual (2019) CopyleftConf, entitled entitled
The Margins of Software Fr...2019-05-3158 minFree as in Freedom0x67: Analysis of Two Backports of GPLv3 Termination Provisions to GPLv2
Bradley and Karen discuss two additional permissions that can be used
to “backport” the GPLv3
Termination provisions to GPLv2
— the Kernel Enforcement Statement Additional Permission, and the
Red Hat Cooperation Commitment. A blog post on Conservancy's site summarizes the discussion on this show.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:35)
Bradley mentioned irregardless
is not actually a word, but it does appear to be slang, which dates
back to 1795! (03:23)
The
additional permission system was codified as a formal part of
GPLv3, but are generally more informal under GPLv2. (05:24)
Karen explained what the Principles
of Commun...2019-05-1141 minFree as in Freedom0x66: The End of Hellwig vs. VMware
Bradley and Karen discuss the details of the completion
of the lawsuit (which Conservancy supported) between Christoph Hellwig and
VMware in Germany.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:37)
Bradley mentioned the episode of Red Dwarf,
White
Hole, where the characters
are speaking too slowly or two quickly due to time
differentials. (01:30)
Bradley explained that the
Hellwig vs. VMware suit in Germany has concluded. (03:30)
German is a civil law
legal system. (05:15)
Christoph Hellwig announced
on his website that he has decided not to appeal. (07:18)
Bradley did a technical
analysis how much of Christoph's code...2019-04-2338 minFree as in Freedom0x65: Linux Foundation's Community Bridge
Bradley and Karen discuss and critique the new initiative by the Linux Foundation called
CommunityBridge. The podcast includes various analysis that expands
upon their
blog post about Linux Foundation's CommunityBridge.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:36)
Conservancy helped Free Software Foundation and GNOME Foundation begin
fiscal sponsorship work. (07:50)
Conservancy has always been very coordinated with Software in the
Public Interest, which is a FOSS fiscal sponsor that predates Conservancy. (08:26)
Conservancy helped NumFocus get started as a fiscal sponsor by providing
advice. (08:53)
The above are all 501(c)(3) charities, but there are also 501(c)(6)
fiscal sponsors, such...2019-04-0247 minFree as in Freedom0x64: Our Producer Dan Lynch Interviewed at Copyleft Conf 2019
Bradley and Karen interview their own producer, Dan Lynch, on site at Copyleft Conf 2019.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:46)
Karen now teaches teaches a
course at Columbia University. (03:40)
In addition to being the producer of Free as in Freedom,
Dan Lynch was the host of Rat
Hole Radio, the co-host of Linux
Outlaws, and currently co-hosts Hollywood
Outlaws. (04:30)
Segment 1 (5:19)
Dan helps co-organize Oggcamp
which is having its tenth-anniversary event on Saturday 19
October 2019. (08:00)
Bradley mentioned the phrase from IT Crowd
quote: Did you see that ludicrous display last night? (11:08)
Dan talked...2019-03-2736 minFree as in Freedom0x63: Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today? (Part IV)
In their final installment regarding their joint keynote at FOSDEM 2019, entitled: Can
Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today?: Confessions of
Activists Who Try But Fail to Avoid Proprietary Software,
you listeners can hear the final product — a recording of the
actual FOSDEM keynote. Afterwards, Karen and Bradley compare notes on
what went wrong and what went right (but mostly what went wrong) during
the talk.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:00:35)
Bradley and Karen talk logistics of how the talk is embedded in the audio.
Segment 1 (00:04:14)
The au...2019-03-201h 10Free as in Freedom0x62: Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today? (Part III)
Bradley and Karen have the last pre-talk installment of discussing the
preparation for their joint keynote at FOSDEM 2019, entitled: Can
Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today?: Confessions of
Activists Who Try But Fail to Avoid Proprietary Software. This
episode is the third of three episodes where Bradley and Karen record
their preparation conversations for this keynote address. In this
particular episode, they discuss the issue of letting others use
proprietary software on your behalf, the problem of relying too much on
that, and then finish up discussing with how they'll include this
material into the...2019-03-1228 minFree as in Freedom0x61: Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today? (Part II)
Bradley and Karen continue the process of preparing their joint keynote
at FOSDEM 2019, entitled: Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom
Today?: Confessions of Activists Who Try But Fail to Avoid Proprietary
Software. This episode is the second of three episodes where
Bradley and Karen record their preparation conversations for this keynote
address. In this particular episode, they discuss the golden age in
history when they used very little proprietary software, and then discuss
the beginning of their personal Dark Ages of using some proprietary
software.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:35)
Bradley...2019-02-2035 minFree as in Freedom0x60: Can Anyone Live in Full Software Freedom Today? (Part I)
Bradley and Karen pull back the curtain and begin the process of
preparing their joint keynote at FOSDEM 2019, entitled: Can Anyone
Live in Full Software Freedom Today?: Confessions of Activists Who Try But
Fail to Avoid Proprietary Software. This episode is the first of
multiple episodes where Bradley and Karen record their preparation
conversations for this keynote address.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:36)
Bradley and Karen discuss the plan to do prep for their FOSDEM keynote
“on air” as part of FaiF broadcasts.
Segment 1 (07:13)
Bradley read out the abstract from Brad...2019-01-1436 minFree as in Freedom0x5F: Was 2018 the Year of Non-FOSS Licensing?
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 Open Source Defintion. (09:20)
Bradley mentioned how badly Amazon treats its workers who pack boxes,
which was widely
reported this month (10:22).
Bradley referenced that someone changed attempted to change a license
on a project to prohibit use by...2018-12-3136 minFree as in Freedom0x5E: Conservancy's ContractPatch Initiative
Bradley and Karen discuss Conservancy's ContractPatch Initiative that
will help Free Software developers negotiate their agreements with employers.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:38)
Software Freedom Conservancy has two blog
posts
and a mailing
list to discuss the Contract Patch initiative (02:40).
Bradley searched for the NPR story he mentioned but just couldn't find it,
but he did fine a
similar one covering terms of service agreements (08:30)
Karen mentioned the the Outreachy
Project of Conservancy. (09:30)
The Google
Map API ToS states that you have to pay for it after a certain amount of
usage (17:30)
...2016-11-0150 minFree as in Freedom0x5D: Conference Report, 1st Half of 2016
Bradley and Karen discuss Conservancy's conference trips and
presentations during the first half of 2016.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:38)
Bradley attended and spoke at FOSDEM 2016 and LinuxConf Australia 2016
(03:10)
Bradley and Karen co-coordinated the FOSDEM 2016 Legal and Policy
Issues DevRoom (04:43)
Tom Marble did an interview-format
discussion with Richard M. Stallman at FOSDEM 2016 (04:55)
Bradley gave two talks at FOSDEM 2016,
Copyleft For the Next Decade: A Comprehensive Plan for the GPL
and A
Beautiful Build: Releasing Linux Source Correctly (06:40)
Richard
Fontana gave a talk at FOSDEM 2016 entitled Open source
foundations: threat or menace? (08:15)
The Doge
...2016-09-2153 minFree as in Freedom0x5C: Basic FLOSS Concepts: Licensing 101
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 “fixed
in a tangible medium” which appears in the USA copyright law. (03:10)
Bradley mentioned the Sherman Antitrust
act. (04:05)
Bradley mentioned the card game Pit (04:15)
Bradley
jokingly quoted Mit
Romney's famous gaffe, “Corporations are people, my friend.”
(04:44)
Bradley read Title 17, the USA
Copyright act many times. (06:50)
Bradley mentioned the court case, UNIX
System Laboratories, Inc. v. Berkeley Software Design, Inc., which
resulted in releasing the parts of BSD that cou...2016-09-021h 02Free as in Freedom0x59: Audio Killed the Video Star
Bradley and Karen discuss the plan for restarting Free as in
Freedom and plans for episodes to come.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:36)
Bradley said in the before time — in the long long ago,
which is a reference to the South Park
parody of the ST:TOS episode, Miri (01:30)
Bradley mentioned when Karen
Sandler left the GNOME Foundation and took over
Bradley's old job as Executive Director of Conservancy. (02:20)
Karen mentioned that Bradley used to
be Executive Director of the Free Software Foundation, a position now held
by John Sullivan. (03:25)
Dan blogged
ab...2016-08-1826 minFree as in Freedom0x58: Debian Copyright Aggregation
Bradley and Karen discuss Conservancy's Debian Copyright
Aggregation project. (Note: While it was released
just after DebConf16, this episode was
recorded well before DebConf16; the discussions about DebConf refer to
DebConf15.)
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:38)
Note: While it was released just after DebConf16, this
episode was recorded well before DebConf16; the discussions about DebConf
refer to DebConf15.
Bradley mentioned his talk at DebConf. This was recorded before
DebConf 16, so Bradley is talking about DebConf 15, which was summarized
in this blog post and his keynote
from DebConf15. A video of...2016-07-1439 minFree as in Freedom0x57: Support Conservancy Now!
Free as in Freedom host Christopher Allan Webber interviews
Karen Sandler and Bradley Kuhn about their work on copyleft and at
Software Freedom Conservancy. You
can become a Supporter
of this work!
Show Notes:
Bradley mentioned Cygnus
Solutions, ultimately acquired by Red Hat, which was an early
for-profit supporter of copylefted projects.
Bradley and Karen discussed the VMware
lawsuit.
Chris Webber
wrote this blog post in response to a Shane Curcuru, who is VP of Brand
Management at the Apache Software Foundation, anti-copyleft talk at OSCON
2015. Shane's talk is consistent with Apache
...2015-11-2426 minFree as in Freedom0x56: … & We're Back!
Bradley and Karen discuss the VMware
lawsuit that Software Freedom Conservancy is funding.
Show Notes:
Bradley and Karen discuss the lawsuit
that Christoph Hellwig filed. (07:37)
Karen mentioned her LibrePlanet
keynote about the VMware lawsuit. (21:30)
Bradley's talk at LinuxConf Australia
2015, Considering The Future of Copyleft, is available
online. (22:04)
Bradley mentioned the discussion on pump.io about NPR fundraisers. (24:23)
Bradley mentioned a Debian
8 release party at LinuxFest Northwest, which Microsoft didn't invite
him to, since he wasn't willing to give Microsoft his contact info for
marketing purposes. (29:16)
Karen and Bradley promoted the Conservancy supporter
...2015-06-0433 minFree as in Freedom0x53: Can Plagiarism Happen Under Copyleft?
Bradley and Karen discuss what plagiarism is (or isn't) and how it
interacts with copyleft licenses.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:00:37)
Please donate to to send Dan to a
conference. There's a progress bar on faif.us now.
You can also donate to support Software Freedom
Conservancy, where Bradley and Karen work, by becoming a
supporter.
Karen mentioned
her blog post about the supporter program. (00:08:30)
Bradley 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...2014-12-301h 16Free as in Freedom0x52: Legal Issues from a Radical Community Angle
Bradley and Karen play and discuss Stefano
Zacchiroli's talk entitled Legal
issues from a radical community angle that he gave 12:00
European/Central time on Sunday 2 February 2014 at FOSDEM 2014.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:00:35)
Karen and Bradley introduce the talk.
Segment 1 (00:02:38)
Stefano
Zacchiroli's talk entitled Legal
issues from a radical community angle . You can watch
the video instead of listening to our audio and/or follow
along with Zach's slides.
Segment 2 (00:53:17)
Please note: Bradley and Karen recorded
these comments before the init system coupling
...2014-12-241h 04Free as in Freedom0x51: Why Licenses Requiring Use of Trademarks are Non-Free
Bradley and Karen play and discuss Pam
Chestek's talk entitled Why
Licenses Requiring Use of Trademarks are Non-Free that she gave on Sunday 2 February 2014 at FOSDEM 2014.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:00:34)
You can donate now to send Producer Dan Lynch
to a Free Software conference. Donations will be made to Conservancy
and any proceeds raised beyond the amount needed to send Dan to a
conference will support Conservancy generally. (05:30)
Dan will of course need to follow Conservancy's
travel policy since Conservancy will fund his travel. (06:50)
Bradley discussed the backstory on the Groupon...2014-12-111h 10Free as in Freedom0x5B: Interview with RMS on GNU's 30th Anniversary
Karen and Bradley interview Richard M. Stallman on the occasion of the
30th Anniversary of the GNU
Project.
Note: Episode 0x5B was released out of sequence, but they are
in the order of release date on faif.us (rather than numerical order by
episode number).
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:34)
Note: Episode 0x5B was released out of sequence, but they are
in the order of release date on faif.us (rather than numerical order by
episode number).
Bradley and Karen introduce the interview.
...2014-11-2440 minFree as in Freedom0x50: Big Announcements & Evans' FOSDEM 2014 Talk
Karen and Bradley announce
Conservancy's DMCA filing and Conservancy
and FSF's joint launch of the copyleft.org project, and then discuss
Eileen
Evans' FOSDEM 2014 talk,
entitled Licensing Models and Building an Open Source Community.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:36)
Conservancy file a DMCA
petition regarding so-called “Smart TVs”. (02:00)
Bradley mentioned the magic
marker that was as circumvention technique under DMCA. Here's an amusing joke press release about the
issue. (03:10)
There isn't much documentation online of Bruce Perens
live DMCA violation, but this
article appears to be the main one on the subject, and...2014-11-111h 13Free as in Freedom0x5A: Gamergate's Free Software Connection
Note: Episode 0x5A was released out of sequence, but they are in the order of release date on faif.us (rather than numerical order).
Karen and Bradley discuss connections between the so-called
“Gamergate” controversy and how it relates to the Free
Software community and a few obvious legal issues.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:37)
Karen asked if Bradley had heard of the Gamergate
situation. (01:30)
Matthew Garrett wrote a blog post regarding this topic entitled Actions have
consequences (or: why I'm not fixing Intel's bugs any more)
(10:23)
Mathew was attacked on
...2014-10-2355 minFree as in Freedom0x4F: Linus Torvalds' Comments at DebConf 2014
Bradley and Karen discuss and criticize comments made by Linus
Torvalds at his Q&A during DebConf
2014 in Portland, OR on 29 August 2014.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:37)
Bradley and Karen discuss the Q&A
with Linus Torvalds at DebConf
2014 in Portland, OR on 29 August 2014. (01:09)
Segment 1 (04:30)
Ryan Lortie asked about an offensive public statement
Linus Torvalds made on 6 July 2012. (05:04)
Bradley mentioned that Linus Torvalds argued Red Hat
was kowtowing to Microsoft using offensive language. (07:57)
Karen mentioned that Linus
called GNOME an unholy mess. (19:05)
Send feedback and comments on...2014-10-0938 minFree as in Freedom0x4E: IRS Refusal Redux
Bradley and Karen discuss the key differences between 501(c)(3) and
501(c)(6) organizations in the USA, and discuss recent refusals by the IRS
to grant such statuses to Open Source and Free Software orgs.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:34)
Bradley mentioned the 501(c)(3) vs. 501(c)(6) difference came up on FaiF 0x41. (03:35)
Bradley mentioned that in 501(c)(3)
status from the IRS is based on receiving some status governed by §170(b)(1)(A)
of the tax code. (Most Free Software charities, such as Conservancy,
are classifed as non-profit charities under §170(b)(1)(A)(vi).)
(05:10)
Bradley mentioned this is...2014-09-2449 minFree as in Freedom0x4D: 2013 Interview: Poettering & Day on Sandboxed GNOME Applications
Karen Sandler interviews Lennart Poettering and Alan Day during the
GNOME Asia Summit 2013. Bradley and Karen comment on this interview.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:38)
Bradley and Karen introduce Karen's interview with Lennart Poettering and Alan Day.
Segment 1 (02:06)
Karen interviews Lennart Poettering and Alan Day about
Lennart's Sandboxed
Applications for GNOME talk at GNOME Asia Summit 2013.
Segment 1 (35:24)
Bradley mentioned his comment
during the GPLv3 process regarding the Ty Coon issue. (41:20)
Send feedback and comments on the cast
to .
You can keep in touch...2014-09-1144 minFree as in Freedom0x4C: Copyleft vs permissive vs CLAs
Bradley and Karen discuss the
talk, Copyleft vs. Permissive vs. Contributor License Agreements: A Veteran’s Perspective by Simo Sorce given at
FOSDEM 2013 on Sunday 3
February 2013.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:00:38)
Bradley and Karen introduce Simo's talk.
Segment 1 (00:03:02)
The slides
from Simo's talk are available, if you want to follow along
Segment 2 (00:59:50)
Bradley menitoned his blog
post about CLA's on Conservancy's website. (01:00:10)
Segment 3 (01:10:22)
Bradley and Karen are still trying to decide what to do about the FOSDEM 2014 talks.
Send fe...2014-08-261h 14Free as in Freedom0x4B: CLA Panel Discussion
Bradley and Karen host a panel discussion on CLAs with Van
Lindberg and Richard Fontana.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:38)
Bradley and Karen introduce the panel discussion.
Segment 1 (01:28)
The panel guests are Van
Lindberg and Richard Fontana.
Van quoted from the Apache Corporate
CLA. (40:55)
Segment 2 (48:17)
Bradley and Karen wrap up the discussion.
Bradley mentioned the AKG C1000S
which we use to record the oggcast. (50:40)
Send feedback and comments on the cast
to .
You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our...2014-08-0554 minFree as in Freedom0x4A: See LA?
Bradley and Karen discuss Contributor Licensing Agreements, which pulls
material from Bradley's blog
posts
on the subject.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:36)
Bradley mentioned FSF's copyright assignment
process. (05:50)
Bradley mentioned RMS' essay regarding what
you should do if a company asks you to assign copyright on Free
Software. (14:00)
Open Stack is reconsidering their CLA.
Bradley mentioned again that goofy Eclipse contributor poster. (27:22)
Send feedback and comments on the cast
to .
You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and
by...2014-07-3044 minFree as in Freedom0x49: Why Free Software Phone Doesn't Exist
Bradley and Karen discuss the
talk, Why the free software phone doesn't exist by Aaron Williamson given at
FOSDEM 2013 on Sunday 3
February 2013.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:37)
Bradley and Karen introduce the talk.
Segment 1 (04:06)
Aaron's slides area available.
Segment 2 (56:41)
Bradley mentioned dakota
imaging where he used to work. (1:02:15)
dacotag imaging
Karen mentioned Aaron's
OSCON 2010 talk (but we incorrectly said it was 2009). (1:04:35)
Send feedback and comments on the cast
to .
You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel...2014-07-191h 08Free as in Freedom0x48: copyleft-next
Bradley and Karen discuss the
talk, copyleft-next: an Introduction by Richard Fontana given at
FOSDEM 2013 on Sunday 3
February 2013.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:37)
Bradley and Karen introduce the talk.
Segment 1 (05:37)
The slides
Fontana's talk on copyleft-next are available.
Segment 2 (01:06:51)
Bradley mentioned the issue of Noam Chomsky's points on
concision (01:13:23).
Bradley mentioned the anti-GPL keynote by Tom
Preseton-Werner of Github at OSCON 2013. (01:14:53)
Bradley and Karen discussed the
Harvey Birdman Rule. (1:27:45)
Bradey mentioned a comment he posted
about CHR-governed policy meetings. (01:29:00)
Send feedback and comments...2014-07-011h 35Free as in Freedom0x47: Why Are You a Software Freedom Zealot?
Bradley and Karen discuss why software freedom as a political, social
and moral issue is important to each of them personally.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:36)
Bradley mentioned that he used to frequently give talks on why
software freedom is important to him. There are available on FSF's
Audio/Video website three
different
recordings
of that talk, usually titled Software Freedom and the GNU
Generation. (01:28)
Bradley's first distribution was SLS. (18:20)
Bradley mentioned that OpenStack
was denied 501(c)(6) trade association status by the IRS. (37:56)
Karen mentioned the Cooper
Union law suit. (48:40)
Send...2014-06-201h 09Free as in Freedom0x46: O'Sullivan's Legally Cementing Licences in Legislation
Bradley and Karen discuss the
talk, Legally Cementing Licences in Legislation: Two Law Merchant
Models for Free Software Licences by Maureen
O’Sullivan given at FOSDEM
2013 on Sunday 3 February 2013.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:00:37)
Bradley mentioned the Planet money
t-shirt story (03:04)
Bradley mentioned he buys Union made sweat
pants (04:42)
Segment 1 (00:06:48)
Bradley and Karen introduce the talk.
Segment 2 (00:07:20)
This segment is the
talk, Legally Cementing Licences in Legislation: Two Law Merchant
Models for Free Software Licences by Maureen
O’Sullivan given at FOSDEM
2013 on Sunday 3 February 2013. You...2014-06-031h 06Free as in Freedom0x45: I'm Board
Bradley and Karen discuss the details, what to worry about, and what
the usual duties are when serving on a Board of Directors for a USA
non-profit. The discussion is primarily about 501(c)(3) organizations,
but at the end they spend some time discussing 501(c)(6) organizations as
well.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:00:44)
An
image of Alfie chewing on the antler (01:22)
Karen
is running for the GNOME Foundation Board of Directors. (05:15)
Bradley once criticized the CNRI OPEN SOURCE
LICENSE AGREEMENT (used for parts of Python), because it is governed by
the laws of...2014-05-271h 02Free as in Freedom0x44: Oracle v. Google Federal Appeals Court Decision
Bradley and Karen explain why they've been gone for so long, and then
discuss the recent
Oracle v. Google Federal Appeals Court Decision.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:00:31)
Karen is now Executive Director of Conservancy and Bradley is
President and Distinguished Technologist. (03:01)
Bradley will be working extensively on the NPO Accounting
Project. (03:40)
Segment 1 (00:09:37)
Karen says the
Oracle v. Google Federal Appeals Court Decision is not an engaging
read, but the lower
court decision was. (09:50)
Karen said: You're out of your
element, Donny! (12:38)
Karen mentioned a tweet from the EFF (15:23)
Bradley...2014-05-1355 minFree as in Freedom0x43: State of the GNUnion
Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss John
Sullivan's talk from FOSDEM 2013,
entitled State
of the GNUnion.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:00:33)
Karen and Bradley introduce the talk.
Segment 1 (00:01:58)
The slides
for John's talk are available, and the source
of those slides is available too.
Segment 1 (00:54:31)
Bradley mentioned RMS'
essay, Who Does That Server Really Serve?
(01:08:55)
Segment 2 (01:14:53)
Private
Internet Access became a new GNOME Advisory Board Member.
Send feedback and comments on the cast
to .
You can keep in...2013-10-171h 19Free as in Freedom0x42: libVLC LGPL Relicensing
Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss Jean-Baptiste
Kempf's talk from FOSDEM 2013,
entitled Relicensing libVLC and VLC modules from GPL to LGPL.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:00:28)
The plural of hiatus appears to be hiatukset, but hiatuses is the
proper English. (01:50)
Bradley adopted two dogs from a shelter. They like kongs (02:30)
Bradley's wife has a blog with pictures of their
dogs. (04:30)
Segment 1 (00:05:52)
Jean-Baptiste Kempf slides
are available for this talk.
Segment 2 (01:03:20)
Bradley had written a a blog post
about the VLC relicensing. (01:03:48)
Bradley mentioned a an
...2013-09-041h 25Free as in FreedomEpisode 0x41: Interview with Jim Zemlin at OSCON 2013
Bradley and Karen interview Jim Zemlin,
Executive Director of the The
Linux Foundation.
Show Notes:
Bradley and Karen interview Jim Zemlin,
Executive Director of the The
Linux Foundation.
Segment 0 (00:00:33)
Bradley and Karen introduce the interview.
Segment 1 (00:03:03)
Bradley and Karen interview Jim Zemlin.
Segment 2 (00:25:23)
Karen and Bradley wrap up the discussion about 501(c)(3) and
501(c)(6).
Bradley referenced this post which ocurred in this thread about Linus saying Greg KH is a door-mat. (26:36, 34:55)
The OSCON session that Bradley chaired was Non-Profits
Organizations...2013-08-1437 minFree as in FreedomEpisode 0x40: Alison Chaiken on Free Software in Cars
Note: initially, from 2013-08-01 18:30 through 2013-08-02 08:40 (US/Eastern), the audio file links in the feed did not work. That has been corrected.
Bradley and Karen interview Alison Chaiken about Free Software in
cars.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:00:38)
Bradley and Karen introduce the interview.
Segment 1 (00:01:43)
Bradley and Karen interview Alison Chaiken about Free
Software in the automotive industry.
Alison mentioned the Genivi
Alliance, which is an industry trade association with some interest in
“Open Source”.
Alison presented a session at LibrePlanet
about the Right to R...2013-08-0251 minFree as in FreedomEpisode 0x3F: FOSDEM 2013 - AGPLv3 Panel Discussion
Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss The
panel discussion on the GNU Affero General Public License from
FOSDEM 2013.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:00:38)
Bradley asked for donations again to Conservancy's NPO accounting
software campaign and Karen asked for donations to GNOME's Privacy Campaign.
Segment 1 (00:04:50)
This is the Panel
Discussion: GNU Affero General Public License, version 3 from
FOSDEM 2013. The speakers, in the order their voices are heard, are Tom
Marble (introduction), Richard
Fontana (moderator), Bradley
M. Kuhn, Eileen
Evans, and Christopher
Allan Webber.
Segment 2 (01:06:47)
Bradley mentioned...2013-07-171h 28Free as in Freedom0x3E: Mozilla - Licensing in the Trenches
Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss Gervase
Markham's talk from FOSDEM
2013, entitled Mozilla: Licensing In The Trenches.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:00:34)
Bradley encouraged listeners to Conservancy's campaign for
non-profit accounting software. (02:10)
Bradley mentioned his
2009 blog post encouraging people to donate to Free Software charities (02:50)
Karen asked people to donate
to the GNOME Foundation privacy campaign (04:11)
Segment 1 (00:04:57)
Gerv's slides
from his FOSDEM 2013 talk can be downloaded from FOSDEM's website.
Segment 2 (00:51:48)
Bradley and Karen discuss Gerv's talk.
Send feedback and comments on the...2013-06-131h 11Free as in Freedom0x3D: Conference Behavior Redux
Karen and Bradley discuss the sexist
comment issue that occurred a few months ago at PyCon USA 2013.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:00:34)
Bradley and Karen previously discussed conference behavior back in
Episode 0x04.
Bradley had blogged a few years ago about the
issues of sexism through the computer industry, including this study showing
the glass ceiling in CS academics. (05:17)
Bradley mentioned that he'd blogged in the past that proprietary
software companies also have issues of sexism at conferences (05:58)
Bradley mentioned the How to Perform Like
a Porn Star CouchDB talk at a...2013-05-2839 minFree as in Freedom0x3C: FOSDEM 2013: How to Share a Trademark
Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss Pamela
Chestek's talk from FOSDEM
2013, entitled How
to Share a Trademark.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:00:33)
Karen and Bradley introduce the talk.
Segment 0 (00:02:05)
Pam gave us slides,
but it's all in one big SVG.
Segment 2 (00:55:10)
The talk that Bradley mentioned was this talk that Karen gave at Linux
Foundation Collaboration Summit 2012; he was unable to find a
recording. (57:04)
Note that most of the time the word source was used in the talk
and Karen's comments, it means...2013-05-071h 23Free as in FreedomEpisode 0x3B: FOSDEM 2013: Should We Embrace App Stores?
Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss Simon
Phipps' and Amanda
Brock's talk from FOSDEM 2013,
entitled Should
We Embrace App Stores?.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:00:33)
Karen and Bradley introduce the talk.
Segment 1 (00:03:03)
Simon and Amanda used no slides during their talk.
Amanda misquotes Bradley at 07:30. Bradley said: An unenforced
copyleft is the moral equivalent of a permissive license, not that you
give a license automatically not by enforcing. You can listen to FaiF Episode 0x38 to
verify.
Segment 1 (00:49:35)
Bradley and Karen discuss the talk.2013-04-111h 11Free as in FreedomEpisode 0x3A: FOSDEM 2013: FOSS Code Goes In And Never Comes Out
Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss Gabriel
Holloway's talk from FOSDEM
2013, entitled FOSS
code goes in and never comes out: The Challenge of Sandboxed Proprietary
Cloud Services.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:00:33)
Karen and Bradley introduce the talk.
Segment 1 (00:05:48)
The speaker's that you hear are:
Gabriel Holloway, who gives the talk
Till
Jaeger asks the first question.
A few other questions are asked, but we're unsure who the speakers
are.
Tom
Marble, asks a question later.
Unfortunately, Gabe didn't provide us with slides.
2013-04-031h 24Free as in FreedomEpisode 0x39: FOSDEM 2013: What is a Derivative Work under European Copyright Law?
Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss Till
Jaeger's talk from FOSDEM 2013,
entitled What
is a derivative work under European Copyright Law?.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:00:31)
Karen and Bradley introduce the talk.
Segment 2 (00:02:41)
The speaker's that you hear are:
Tom
Marble, introduces the talk, and asks one of the questions.
Till
Jaeger, who gives the talk
The slides
for Till Jaeger's talk are available.
Segment 2 (00:49:11)
Bradley and Karen discuss Till's talk.
Clarence
Thomas spoke the first time in the Supreme Court...2013-03-261h 13Free as in FreedomEpisode 0x38: FOSDEM 2013: GPL Compliance Panel
Karen and Bradley listen to and discuss the GPL
Compliance Panel from FOSDEM 2013.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:00:34)
Karen and Bradley have some not-so-witty banter about the FOSDEM 2013
Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom.
Segment 1 (00:07:19)
The speakers on the panel are (in order of appearance):
Tom Marble, introduces the panel.
Karen Sandler, moderator.
Alexios Zavras
Richard Sands
Bradley M. Kuhn
Harald Welte
Segment 2 (01:02:51)
Bradley mentioned the Comic Book Guy from
The Simpsons, but incorrectly said he didn't have an actual
name, which he does (Jeff...2013-03-191h 13Free as in FreedomEpisode 0x37: Copyright Assignment Again
Karen and Bradley discuss the LWN article, GnuTLS, copyright
assignment, and GNU project governance and other issues related to
copyright assignment.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:46)
Bradley didn't want his words compared to the Ayn Rand's quote from an
interview with Phil Donahue where she said I'm not going to die, it's
just that world will end. (02:54)
Bradley discussed the reaction to on 0x36 that occurred in this identi.ca
thread. (04:20)
Bradley and Karen discussed the LWN article, GnuTLS, copyright
assignment, and GNU project governance. (11:15)
Bradley pointed out that every other copyleft...2013-02-141h 01Free as in FreedomEpisode 0x36: RMS' Ubuntu Essay and Canonical, Ltd.'s Response
Karen and Bradley discuss RMS' essay on
FSF's website, Ubuntu SpyWare: What To Do, and Shuttleworth's
Slashdot interview that responds somewhat to RMS' comments.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:36)
Karen and Bradley discuss RMS' essay on
FSF's website, Ubuntu SpyWare: What To Do (08:50)
Bradley mentioned how Fab discovered (and discussed on Linux Outlaws 280) how a search
for “ter” in efforts to find a terminal window in Ubuntu yields
[slightly NSFW] gives results for Rachel Ter Horst
DVDs. (09:44)
Bradley mentioned his
blog post about Nokia's problems interfacing with Free Software
communities. (14:50)
Bradley and Kare...2012-12-1839 minFree as in FreedomEpisode 0x35: Oracle vs. Google Copyright Decision
Karen and Bradley discuss the copyright
decision in the Oracle
vs. Google case.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:33)
Bradley mentioned the BPM for the human heart is
to the Bee Gee's song, STayin' Alive. (01:55)
FaiF's bandwidth is provided by OSU-OSL. Please donate to OSU-OSL. (09:50)
Bradley and Karen discuss the copyright
decision in the Oracle vs. Google case. (12:26)
Bradley couldn't find quickly a full telling of the windings/SCO
font thing, but this
blog mentions it (29:34)
Send feedback and comments on the cast
to .
You can keep in touch with Free as...2012-12-0532 minFree as in FreedomEpisode 0x34: Medical Devices Update
Karen gives an update on the advocacy of software freedom for
medical devices, while Bradley continually takes the show
off-topic.
Show Notes:
Bradley mentioned Jimmy Fallon's … And We're
Back script.
Barnaby
Jack showed lethal attacks exist on wireless devices. (06:25)
Karen previously
gave a talk about her heart condition on the show. (07:13)
Hugo Campos,
who also works on this issue. (26:08)
Bradley mentioned the Therac-25
software-related disaster. (29:30)
Send feedback and comments on the cast
to .
You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.ne...2012-11-2233 minFree as in FreedomEpisode 0x33: Richard Fontana at LinuxCon North America 2012
Karen and Bradley play and discuss Richard Fontana's LinuxCon
North America 2012 talk, The Tragedy of the Commons
Gatekeepers.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:33)
Bradley and Karen introduce Richard Fontana's talk.
Segment 1 (02:48)
Richard Fontana's slides are available
online, and there is also a well-written summary of the talk available on LWN.
Segment 2 (47:15)
Karen and Bradley discuss Fontana's talk.
Send feedback and comments on the cast
to .
You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc...2012-10-101h 13Free as in FreedomEpisode 0x32: Matthew Garrett on UEFI at LinuxCon North America 2012
Karen and Bradley play and discuss Matthew Garrett's talk,
Linux in a UEFI Secure Boot World talk from LinuxCon North
America 2012.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:34)
Bradley mentioned that people at LinuxCon North America 2012 were talking
about this article, wherein it states 51% of survey respondents believe
[bad] weather can impact cloud computing. Bradley and Karen
pointed out all the many ways that it can, such as if your services
come via satellite links. (02:10)
Bradley mentioned Matthew's talk might be best listened to
before our earlier FaiFCast 0x2d
about UEFI and Restricted...2012-09-271h 05Free as in FreedomEpisode 0x31: GNU Mediagoblin
Karen and Bradley interview Christopher Allan Webber of the GNU Mediagoblin project.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:31)
Karen and Bradley introduce the interview.
Segment 0 (00:56)
Karen and Bradley interview their guest, Christopher Allan Webber of the GNU Mediagoblin project.
GNU Mediagoblin is licensed under the Affero GPL, but does
not require copyright assignment and the developers have no plans to
seek a proprietary licensing business.
Bradley mentioned this
dent by Stephen Fry on identi.ca, but that was in fact not his last dent as Bradley said.
(21:50)
GNU Mediagoblin...2012-09-1445 minFree as in FreedomEpisode 0x30: GNOME Press Comments
Karen and Bradley discuss recent coverage of GNOME by the technology
press, and more generally issues and concerns with the technology
press.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:44)
Bradley couldn't find support for his claim about in the
can, and Karen may be right.(01:15)
Bradley mentioned that the GNOME Foundation negative press recently
is akin to what Harry
Reid did by stating rumors regarding Romney's taxes. (05:03)
Karen mentioned the Debunking
Handbook that Germán
Póo-Caamaño mentioned to her. (06:30)
Bradley mentioned the quote I do not think
[that word] means what you thi...2012-08-2856 minFree as in Freedom0x2F: OSCON and GUADEC 2012
Karen and Bradley discuss OSCON and GUADEC.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:36)
Bradley represents FSF on the GNOME Advisory
Board. (02:20)
Bradley points out it's very dangerous when you can buy voting
rights of a 501(c)(3) by paying money, such as the structure of OSI.
Karen notes that contribution-based membership works very well for
GNOME. (03:50)
Bradley is concerned about the future of OSI's license list now
that votes in OSI are for sale. (04:30)
Bradley received an O'Reilly
Open Source Award at OSCON 2012. Bradley blogged an acceptance
speech for the award. (08:50)
The
Python award and...2012-08-1539 minFree as in FreedomEpisode 0x2E: FOSDEM 2012: Linksvayer on Public Policy & CC 4.0
Karen and Bradley play and discuss Mike
Linksvayer's FOSDEM 2012 talk, Creative
Commons 4.0 licenses and other opportunities for FLOSS/free culture
legal/policy intersections from the FOSDEM
2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:38)
Bradley and Karen suggest that you use the slides below when
listening to Mike's talk.
Segment 1 (05:51)
Mike Linksvayer's slides for this talk are available in PDF
format and in ODP
format.
Segment 2 (33:43)
Segment 3 (34:25)
A special licensing message from Mike Linksvayer.
Segment 4 (35:09)
Karen...2012-07-1759 minFree as in Freedom0x2D: FSF's Restricted Boot Paper
Karen and Bradley discuss FSF's
announcement of FSF's
white paper on Restricted Boot, which critiques Red Hat's approach to
restricted boot for its Fedora distribution and Canonical,
Ltd.'s approach to restricted boot for its Ubuntu distribution.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:38)
Karen mentioned it's useful that FSF avoids preloaded names.
Bradley used FSF's
criticism of the term “intellectual property” as an
example of why it's important to avoid biased terminology. (02:22)
Karen suggested that listeners may want to read FSF's
white paper on Restricted Boot. (04:00)
Bradley suggested also reading
the Fedora statement
and...2012-07-0542 minFree as in Freedom0x2C: FOSDEM 2012: Laurent's Open Licences before European Courts
Karen and Bradley play and discuss Philippe
Laurent's FOSDEM 2012 talk, Open
Licences before European Courts from the FOSDEM
2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:36)
Karen and Bradley mention there is one talk remaining after this one
from the FOSDEM
2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom.
Segment 1 (03:04)
Philippe's slides
are available from faif.us. Note: the slides are licensed
differently than the show: they are CC-By-SA-3.0-Unported (rather than -USA).
Segment 2 (32:22)
Bradley mentioned FSF France's
involvement with the AFPA case. (37:30)
Send...2012-06-1944 minFree as in Freedom0x2B: Deb Nicholson of OIN
Karen and Bradley interview Deb Nicholson of Open Invention Network,
GNU MediaGoblin and Open Hatch.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:36)
Karen announced
her pregnancy. (01:50)
Bradley will be at OSCON, Karen might be, and Karen will be at
GUADEC. Bradley will be at LinuxCon North America and LinuxCon
Europe. (03:00)
Segment 1 (04:40)
Deb Nicholson was previously on the show as Episode 0x25: FOSDEM 2012
Patents Panel. (06:00)
Deb mentioned Linux
System Definition, which is the OIN-published list of things that
OIN members license their patents to each other on. (07:12)
Deb and Bradley are debating Bradley's...2012-06-0548 minFree as in Freedom0x29: Richard Fontana at Linux Collaboration Summit 2012
Karen and Bradley play and discuss Richard
Fontana's Linux Collaboration Summit 2012 talk, The Decline of
the GPL, and What To Do About It.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:36)
Karen mentioned a legal summit
where Richard and Karen spoke; the same event where the organizers said
having Bradley speak would be the same as having the caterers
speak.
Segment 1 (04:46)
Fontana's slides for
this talk are available on Fontana's website.
Note that this talk is a longer version of
Ricahrd
Fontana's FOSDEM 2012 talk, The
(possible) decline of...2012-05-221h 19Free as in Freedom0x28: FOSDEM 2012: Loic Dachary
Karen and Bradley play and discuss Loïc
Dachary's FOSDEM 2012 talk, Can
for-profit companies enforce copyleft without becoming corrupt like
MySQL AB? from the FOSDEM
2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:35)
Bradley and Karen discuss FOSDEM again.
Segment 1 (10:10)
Unfortunately, we don't have Loïc's slides.
Segment 2 (32:03)
Bradley and Karen comment on Loïc's talk.
Send feedback and comments on the cast
to .
You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on...2012-05-0956 minFree as in Freedom0x27: FOSDEM 2012: Randal's Legal Hygiene
Karen and Bradley play and discuss Allison
Randal's FOSDEM 2012 talk, FLOSSing
for Good Legal Hygiene: Stories from the Trenches from the
FOSDEM
2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:35)
Bradley talked about the #faif IRC conversation regarding hot milk recipe and its
copyright. (01:54)
Segment 1 (07:10)
Allison's slides
are available from faif.us.
Segment 2 (35:00)
Karen and Bradley discussed the insanely
complicated poster that Eclipse developers have to put on their walls
to know how to accept patches (37:40)
RMS's GNU
Project essay talks about...2012-04-251h 04Free as in Freedom0x26: FOSDEM 2012: Meeks on Copyright Assignment
Karen and Bradley play and discuss Michael
Meeks's FOSDEM 2012 talk, Risks
and Benefits of Copyright Assignment from the 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 slides
are available from faif.us and 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 successful
fundraisers. (29:38)
Bradley ment...2012-04-1347 minFree as in Freedom0x25: FOSDEM 2012 Patents Panel
Karen and Bradley play and discuss Panel on
Patents, moderated by Karen Sandler, with Ciarán O'Riordan, Benjamin Henrion, and Deb Nicholson
from the FOSDEM
2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:35)
This American Life issued a
retraction of the story we mentioned on 0x24.
This American Life released a transcript or mp3
of the audio of the retraction. (02:21)
Karen and Bradley introduce the panel.
Segment 1 (03:58)
This is the recording of the panel. Some of the questions aren't
completely audible, but Dan did a pretty good j...2012-03-2948 minFree as in Freedom0x24: App Store Panel
Karen and Bradley play and discuss Panel on
Application Stores, moderated by Richard
Fontana, with Giovanni
Battista Gallus, Bradley
M. Kuhn, and Hugo Roy
from the FOSDEM
2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:34)
Karen and Bradley introduce the panel.
Segment 1 (02:15)
This is the recording of the panel. Some of the questions aren't
completely audible, but Dan did a pretty good job boosting it in
places.
Segment 2 (35:04)
Bradley mentioned This
American Life, Episode 454, that covered issues of labor that is
abused...2012-03-1347 minFree as in Freedom0x22: Elder's Methods of FOSS Activism
Karen and Bradley play and discuss Ambjörn Elder's talk
entitled Methods
of FOSS Activism from the FOSDEM
2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:35)
Bradley and Karen summarize some of the logistics of FOSDEM.
Segment 1 (08:08)
You can follow along with Ambjörn's slides for his talk while you listen.
Segment 2 (24:04)
Bradley mentioned Terry
Bollinger's report,
Use of Free and Open-Source Software (FOSS) in the
U.S. Department of Defense. (26:13)
Karen quoted the USA DoD in her Killed
by Code paper. (28:04)
EF...2012-02-1444 minFree as in FreedomEpisode 0x20: Gender Inequality in Software Freedom Community
Bradley and Karen discuss issues of gender inequality in the
software freedom community and technology generally.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:38)
Bradley and Karen discuss issues of gender inequality in the
software freedom community and technology generally.
Bradley wrote
a blog post a while back noting that issues of gender inequality
are technology-sector-wide, as shown on
PDF page 10 of this study. However, Bradley incorrectly remembered
the study: in fact, all levels of academic computer science are (23:19)
Karen got a 5 on our Calculus AB exam, even though her teacher told
her only...2012-01-1747 minFree as in FreedomEpisode 0x1F: Toward Better Legal Discussion Fora
Karen and Bradley discuss the various private Free Software legal
fora and consider if a more open community for discussion might be
better, and also discuss the just-ended CFP for the FOSDEM Legal and
Policy Issues Dev Room.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:37)
Bradley and Karen were discussing the NYS charities filing
requirements for auditing and limited review, as can be seen NYS CHAR-500
instructions, on page 5 of 6, §V(6) . (03:02)
Bradley and Karen mentioned the old show, SFLS
0x19, where they discussed Conservancy's
FY 2008 Form 990. (03:27)
Bradley mentioned he still works at a cow-orking
f...2012-01-0837 minFree as in FreedomEpisode 0x1E: Our Non-Profits Considered
Karen and Bradley discuss recent debates about the value of
non-profit organizations for Free Software.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:34)
Fontana
(and other Red Hat employees) pointed out some imprecision in what
Bradley said in Episode
0x1D about Debian non-free. (01:07)
A call for
participation has been
announced for the Legal
and Policy Issues DevRoom at FOSDEM 2012. Please submit a
proposal by 30 December 2011 (04:30)
A recent debate about non-profits started, initiated by a blog post
called Apache
Considered Harmful. (12:55)
Karen and Bradley briefly mentioned that some now believe
that Considered Harmful Considered Harmful
(13:16)
...2011-12-1644 minFree as in FreedomEpisode 0x1A: Comments on Jobs
Bradley and Karen discuss the various news and comments on
Steve Jobs' death and his legacy, and their own thoughts on the
issue.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:36)
Bradley still hasn't made the blog post he keeps saying he'll make
about one year at Conservancy. (01:30
Bradley mentioned the character Cat from Red Dwarf's
obsession with “shiny things” in the episode Waiting
for God. (20:23)
Segment 1 (21:12)
Karen mentioned Paula Rooney's article Steve
Jobs: an open source pioneer? You bet, which Bradley pointed out
was a pure link-bait. (21:20)
Bradley mention Andy
Rooney has reti...2011-10-1152 minFree as in FreedomEpisode 0x19: GNOME 3.2 and Other Topics
Karen and Bradley discuss the GNOME 3.2 release, Karen interviews
Jos Poortvliet, Bradley complains about identi.ca web interface and
they discuss together UEFI “secure” boot, and the PyPy
Python 3 campaign.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:40)
Bradley wrote
a blog post about how GNOME 3 is not for him.
Segment 1 (07:14)
Karen interviewed Jos
Poortvliet
Segment 2 (21:04)
Bradley mentioned Shaun
McCance's post to desktop-devel about response bias, which he
posted on user survey thread. (25:04)
Karen mentioned that GNOME 3.2 has
been released with new features, such as better window
resizing. (28:57)
Bradley pointed out that...2011-09-2848 minFree as in FreedomEpisode 0x18: 12 Years of Compliance: A Historical Perspective
Bradley and Karen play a speech recording of Bradley's presentation
at OSCON 2011, entitled 12 Years of FLOSS License Compliance: A
Historical Perspective.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:36)
Bradley mentioned that time travel requires special
verb tenses according to the Douglas Adams'
book, The
Restaurant at the End of the Universe. (01:48)
Bradley gave a keynote at
Ohio Linux Fest 2011 (01:58)
Segment 1 (05:02)
This segment is a recording of Bradley's OSCON
2011 talk, entitled 12 Years of Copyleft License Compliance: A
Historical Perspective. The slides are
available on Bradley's website so you can follow along during the
...2011-09-1357 minFree as in FreedomEpisode 0x17: Contributor Agreements Considered Harmful
Bradley and Karen play a speech recording of Richard Fontana's
presentation at OSCON 2011, entitled Contributor Agreements
Considered Harmful.
Note: this show and the slides from Richard Fontana are licensed
under CC-By-SA-3.0
USA. This will be the new license of the show for this and future
episodes.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:34)
This show is a recording of Richard Fontana's talk Contributor
Agreements Considered Harmful. (03:13)
Segment 1 (03:34)
Richard Fontana has made his slides from his talk
available on his website.
Bradley
live-dented Fontana's talk from OSCON.
Richard Fontana references Michael
...2011-08-301h 03Free as in FreedomEpisode 0x16: Legal Basics for Developers
Bradley and Karen play and comment on a talk recording of Aaron Williamson's and
Karen's presentation at OSCON 2011, entitled Legal Basics for
Developers.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:33)
Bradley mentioned the birthday attack
when explaining to Karen how likely it might be that the number of the
show might match the number of the day. (01:38)
This show is a recording of Aaron
and Karen's OSCON 2011 talk, Legal Basics for
Developers. (02:20)
Segment 1 (05:53)
The slides
for the Legal Basics for Developers are available to follow
along with the recording (05:53)
Segment 2 (49:36)
...2011-08-1653 minFree as in FreedomEpisode 0x15: Karen Keynotes OSCON
Karen and Bradley discuss Karen's OSCON keynote and her 2011
O'Reilly Open Source Award, as well as other happenings from OSCON.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:35)
Bradley and Karen just returned from the 2011 O'Reilly Open Source
Software Convention (OSCON). (00:45)
Karen received one of the 2011
O'Reilly Open Source Awards. (Video of the award
ceremony is online.) (03:05)
Karen now has a blog called
GNOMG. (05:03)
Karen's wrote a blog
post about winning the 2011 Open Source Award. (03:47)
Karen now has a redirector to her blog via gnomg.org. (05:42)
Listener Michael Dexter let Bradley stay at his house...2011-08-0236 minFree as in FreedomEpisode 0x14: Free as in FOAM
Karen and Bradley briefly discuss and play Bradley's keynote at the
Sixth
Annual OpenFOAM Conference.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:38)
Bradley spoke at the Sixth
Annual OpenFOAM workshop. (01:42)
Segment 1 (03:20)
Follow along with Bradley's
slides from his talk at the Sixth Annual OpenFOAM Workshop
(03:22)
The sources
for the slides is available.
Segment 2 (53:12)
Karen and Bradley discussed the talk.
Bill
Gates' arrest in New Mexico (Bradley incorrectly said Nevada) is
discussed in Gates' Wikipedia entry. (55:20)
Bradley mentioned the made-for-TV movie The
Pirates of Silicon Valley. (56:26)
Send feedback and comments...2011-07-191h 04Free as in FreedomEpisode 0x13: Torts and 1023s
Karen and Bradley discuss the USAmerican legal system in regard to
torts, and the current delays from the USA IRS on 501(c)(3) non-profit
applications (i.e., Form 1023s).
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:48)
Billy Crook wrote in to make a good joke about 0x12 being the last
episode available in other RSS feeds. (Don't forget the right RSS feed
is at faif.us.)
Karen calls tortes
delicious pastries.
Bradley saw a documentary
called Hot Coffee, which discussed the idea of tort deform. (03:35, 05:45)
Bradley mentioned that Karl
Rove, George W. Bush's political operative...2011-07-0539 minFree as in FreedomEpisode 0x12: Karen's New Job; Supreme Court on Patents
Karen announces her new job, and Bradley and Karen discuss the
recent USA Supreme Court decisions on patents.
Be sure to make sure you're subscribed to feeds available
on faif.us if you haven't already!
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:37)
If you have not moved your RSS feed already away from
softwarefreedom.org, and to faif.us, you
should do that now! Here's links to the ogg RSS feed and mp3 RSS feed. New FaiF shows
won't appear on softwarefreedom.org.
Karen
is now the Executive Director of the GNOME...2011-06-2154 minFree as in FreedomEpisode 0x11: Corporate Licensing Decisions That Impact the Project's Community
Dan Lynch (filling in for Karen)
and Bradley discuss a few examples
where licensing decisions by companies impacts the health of the
software development community.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:00:36)
Dan interviewed the CentOS developers on FLOSS Weekly. (00:05:52)
Bradley has a blog
post that describes RHEL licensing model. His
previous blog post to that one, while mostly off-topic here, has a
few points of interest. (00:10:36)
Dan Lynch mentioned The Smoking Man
from the The X
Files television series. (00:17:22)
Bradley mentioned that Lennart Poettering is a
Red Hat employee working on systemd,
which...2011-06-071h 24Free as in FreedomEpisode 0x10: Linux License Violations
Dan Lynch (filling in for Karen) and Bradley play and discuss
Matthew Garrett's talk GPL
Violations: What Are We Doing? (aka Linux License
Violations) from the Linux Collaboration Summit 2011.
If you want to listen to only the off-topic parts of this oggcast, please download the 2011-05-241h 24Free as in FreedomEpisode 0x0E: Open Source Projects and Corporate Entanglement
This episode is a recording of Richard Fontana's talk, Open Source Projects and
Corporate Entanglement from the 2011
Linux Collaboration Summit, with some commentary from Bradley and
Karen on the talk.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:34)
Bradley is still recovering from a rhinovirus which he
didn't take care of and also made him sicker, which explains the
problems with his voice. In fact, the coughing in the background during
Fontana's talk is all Bradley. He apologizes. (00:50)
This show is Richard Fontana's Linux
Collaboration Summit 2011 talk, Open Source Projects and
Corporate Entanglement. (03:24)
Segment 1 (03:48)2011-04-261h 02Free as in FreedomEpisode 0x0C: Disturbing Debates
Bradley and Karen
discuss two debates going on in the free and open source software
community. One recent and seemingly inflated, and one long and
confusing.
Show Notes:
Segment 1 (03:12)
Bradley wrote a blog
post about the Bionic issues that were raised. (03:44)
On the old oggcast, Karen
and Bradley discussed the Android/Linux system and Bionic
specifically. (04:09)
Karen mentioned an old oggcast
where permissive vs. copyleft licensing was discussed. (06:19)
Jake Edge wrote an LWN
article that discussed Bionic (07:58)
Bradley mentioned Raymond
Nimmer's blog that started the debate (10:52)
Bradley also mentioned Edward
...2011-03-2943 minFree as in FreedomEpisode 0x0B: Free Software Project Non-Profit Existence
Bradley and Karen
have an introductory discussion on how non-profit governance interacts
with Free Software projects and what issues are important for
developers who want their project to have a non-profit existence.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:37)
Bradley and Karen began the discussion by commenting
on this blog post by Andy Updegrove about non-profit
governance. (01:50)
Bradley and Karen tend to agree that non-profit settings are better
places to foster and help Free Software development. (03:40)
Bradley mentioned that Roland McGrath wrote GNU C
Library (and other GNU programs) while working as an employee...2011-03-1534 minFree as in FreedomEpisode: 0x0A: Windows Mobile Windows Phone 7 Series Application Store
Bradley and Karen
discussed the Windows Phone 7 Application Store terms and conditions
which prohibit GPL'd and other copylefted software in the application store.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:35)
Karen and Bradley discussed the Microsoft Phone Marketplace
agreement, which was heavily
covered
in
news
and
blogs. (02:50)
Karen quoted directly from the § 1(l) from the Windows Phone
Marketplace Application Provider Agreement (03:20)
Bradley credited Jello Biafra with coining the term
“punditocracy”, but it seems to have been
first used by Charles
Reynell in The Economist in 1989 and popularized by
Eric Alterman
in his 1992 book, Sound & Fury...2011-03-0138 minFree as in FreedomEpisode 0x09: Copyleft, -or-later, and Basics of Compatibility
Bradley and Karen
discuss types of copyleft generally and introduce the basics of license
compatibility and -or-later clauses.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:38)
This show discusses copyleft and basic
issues of license
compatibility (04:09) Karen mentioned an episode of the
old Software Freedom Law Show, Episode
0x08, where Bradley and Karen discussed selecting a FLOSS license
and what the various options are. (04:45) license compatibility
06:28
Bradley incorrectly said that the original Emacs license didn't
have the word General in it. However, the other explanations
appear to be correct. There's a useful history page
that...2011-02-1541 minFree as in FreedomEpisode 0x08: Strictly Commercial
Bradley and Karen
discuss non-commercial-only commons licenses, particularly the CC-By-NC
license, and how they compare to Free Culture and Free Software
licenses, and why some authors pick NC licenses instead of Free
Culture/Software ones.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:36)
Listeners seeking a show on how to select a Free Software license,
differences between copyleft and non-copyleft, and how they interact with
copyright are encouraged to listen to
episode 0x08 of the old Software Freedom Law Show which
covered these topics. Please write in again if that show doesn't
cover your questions...2011-02-0149 minFree as in FreedomEpisode 0x07: Revoked?
Bradley and Karen
discuss a few corrections from previous shows, and then discuss
misunderstandings about the GPL regarding “revocation” of
the GPL.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:34)
Bradley issued a correction regarding FaiF 0x06. Christopher Allan Webber mentioned that
FSF sometimes accepts copyright assignments in cases where the entire code
base is not assigned. (02:40)
Karen issued a correction regarding FaiF 0x04 about women
being hired to be at the party, but in fact that was not the case, despite
being mentioned in this
article.
Karen's paper on Medical Devices was linked to from...2011-01-1844 minFree as in FreedomEpisode 0x06: GRUB, Zulu Foxtrot Sierra
Bradley and Karen
discuss the inclusion of ZFS GPLv2-or-later code inclusion into GNU GRUB.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:35)
Bradley and Karen discussed the inclusion of ZFS code now included in GRUB, as the GRUB Project announced and
was covered at LWN by
Jonathan Corbet.
It's not mandatory that GNU projects have assignment to the FSF.
The
GNU Maintainer's guide discuss the requirements when items are assigned
to FSF. (14:40)
FSF requires that the entire codebase be assigned once GNU project
maintainers choose to assign copyrights. Conservancy's policy on
copyright assignment differs...2011-01-0447 minFree as in FreedomEpisode 0x05: Inducing Fryers
Bradley and Karen
welcome special co-presenter and guest, Aaron Williamson, to discuss
the OpenBSD email regarding purported FBI backdoors. In the main
segment, they discuss the amicus brief filed by SFLC (where Aaron and
Karen work) in the Global-Tech Appliances v. SEB USA
Supreme Court case.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:37)
Aaron brought up a message
forwarded to the OpenBSD developers list by Theo de
Raadt. This story has been covered
widely
online.
(02:50)
Aaron mentioned that Glyn
Moody wrote a blog post about what issues about “Open
Source” security this raises. (04:06)
Bradley ment...2010-12-2154 minFree as in FreedomEpisode 0x04: Conference Behavior and Novell Sale
In this episode of Free as in Freedom,
Karen and Bradley discuss in the
first segment recent press coverage of sexist attitudes at Free
Software conferences, and in the second segment, discuss the public
filings related to the Novell sale.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:40)
Karen and Bradley discuss an article called The
Dark Side of Open Source Conference, which was covered some in
the tech press, in press
outside of technology. Deb
Nicholson wrote a blog post about it, as did
Valerie (the original article's author. (01:06)
Bradley mentioned his
blog post...2010-12-0758 minFree as in FreedomEpisode 0x03: i Don't Store
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 Brett's
statement on the VLC mailing list, although that is toward the end of
the story
that was...2010-11-2345 minFree as in FreedomEpisode 0x02: The Needs of the Few
Karen and Bradley discuss Stormy Peters' departure from the GNOME
Foundation, an issue of deep confusion regarding copyright licensing,
and references to Spock in a recent court decision.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:35)
Bradley confirmed the entire show is licensed CC-By-SA 3.0.
(02:30)
Stormy
Peters is leaving the position of GNOME Foundation's Executive
Director. (04:10)
The GNOME Advisory
Board is a group of for-profit and non-profit organizations that
meet regularly to give advice to GNOME Foundation. (04:34)
Stormy is going to a job at the Mozilla Foundation. (09:10)
You don't have to be a developer to become...2010-11-0939 minFree as in FreedomEpisode 0x01: Free of Annoying Buzz
Bradley and Karen discuss the new license of their show, multi-platform Free Software projects and conferences Bradley attended this month.
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:32)
All recordings for the first 0x01 attempt had an annoying audio
buzz. (01:18)
The Free as in Freedom oggcast is now licensed CC-By-SA 3.0
Unported (03:10)
Karl Fogel is Executive Director of Question Copyright. (03:35)
Karen mentioned the Free Culture
definition. (08:22)
Larry Lessig presented to an FSF Members Meeting using
Mac. (09:22)
Bradley and Karen argued about whether or not OpenOffice.org and/or
Firefox run better on non-GNU/Linux systems than...2010-10-2946 minFree as in FreedomEpisode 0x00: Goodbye and Ahoy Hoy
Bradley and Karen announced that the Software Freedom Law
Show is over. Karen and Bradley announced a new show,
called Free as in Freedom, that will not be affiliated
with any specific organization (although Bradley and Karen keep all their
various affiliations themselves. :).
Show Notes:
Segment 0 (00:28)
Bradley mentioned OsamaK is not
happy at Bradley and Karen for not having a new oggcast for a
month. (00:45)
Bradley no long works at the Software Freedom Law Center. He now
works full time at the Software
Freedom Conservancy. (02:00)
Bradley thinks everything related to...2010-10-0632 min