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Free as in Freedom

Free as in Freedom

A bi-weekly discussion of legal, policy, and other issues in the open source and software freedom community (including occasional interviews) from Brooklyn, New York, USA. Presented by Karen Sandler and Bradley M. Kuhn.

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00:26:10

0x57: Support Conservancy Now!

Free as in Freedom ·

2015/11/24

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

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00:33:52

0x56: … & We're Back!

Free as in Freedom ·

2015/06/04

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

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00:40:12

0x55: Nick Coghlan at LCA 2015

Free as in Freedom ·

2015/03/03

Bradley and Karen interview Nick Coghlan, who works onn development and test infrastructure for Red Hat and is heavily involved with the Python community. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:00:35) Bradley and Karen interviewed Nick Coghlan who works for Red Hat and contributes to various Open Source and Free Software projects such as Python. Nick discussed his work on the infrastructure team at Red Hat, and his advocacy of Kallithea for use for the CPython

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00:39:39

0x54: Carol Smith at LCA 2015

Free as in Freedom ·

2015/01/29

Bradley and Karen interview Carol Smith, Programs and Open Source Community Manager of Google Summer of Code about the program and its policies and procedures. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:00:35) Bradley encourages those who attend FOSDEM 2015 to attend sign up to attend the Supporter Night Event on 30 January 2015 in Brussels, Belgium. Segment 1 (00:50:11) More Show notes for this one coming soon! Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You

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01:16:43

0x53: Can Plagiarism Happen Under Copyleft?

Free as in Freedom ·

2014/12/30

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

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01:04:50

0x52: Legal Issues from a Radical Community Angle

Free as in Freedom ·

2014/12/24

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

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01:10:00

0x51: Why Licenses Requiring Use of Trademarks are...

Free as in Freedom ·

2014/12/11

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

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00:40:06

0x5B: Interview with RMS on GNU's 30th Anniversary

Free as in Freedom ·

2014/11/24

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

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01:13:10

0x50: Big Announcements & Evans' FOSDEM 2014 Talk

Free as in Freedom ·

2014/11/11

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

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00:55:31

0x5A: Gamergate's Free Software Connection

Free as in Freedom ·

2014/10/23

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

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00:38:51

0x4F: Linus Torvalds' Comments at DebConf 2014

Free as in Freedom ·

2014/10/09

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

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00:49:25

0x4E: IRS Refusal Redux

Free as in Freedom ·

2014/09/23

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

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00:44:39

0x4D: 2013 Interview: Poettering & Day on Sandboxed...

Free as in Freedom ·

2014/09/11

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

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01:14:47

0x4C: Copyleft vs permissive vs CLAs

Free as in Freedom ·

2014/08/26

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)

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00:54:05

0x4B: CLA Panel Discussion

Free as in Freedom ·

2014/08/05

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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00:44:34

0x4A: See LA?

Free as in Freedom ·

2014/07/30

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

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01:08:30

0x49: Why Free Software Phone Doesn't Exist

Free as in Freedom ·

2014/07/19

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)

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01:35:07

0x48: copyleft-next

Free as in Freedom ·

2014/07/01

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

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01:09:27

0x47: Why Are You a Software Freedom Zealot?

Free as in Freedom ·

2014/06/19

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

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01:06:41

0x46: O'Sullivan's Legally Cementing Licences in...

Free as in Freedom ·

2014/06/03

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

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