Shows
Free 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 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)
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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 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 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 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 min