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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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01:02:56

0x45: I'm Board

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2014/05/27

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

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00:55:43

0x44: Oracle v. Google Federal Appeals Court Decision

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2014/05/13

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

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01:19:37

0x43: State of the GNUnion

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2013/10/17

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

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01:25:43

0x42: libVLC LGPL Relicensing

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2013/09/04

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

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00:37:16

Episode 0x41: Interview with Jim Zemlin at OSCON 2013

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2013/08/14

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

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00:51:30

Episode 0x40: Alison Chaiken on Free Software in Cars

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2013/08/02

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

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01:28:47

Episode 0x3F: FOSDEM 2013 - AGPLv3 Panel Discussion

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2013/07/17

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

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01:11:55

0x3E: Mozilla - Licensing in the Trenches

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2013/06/13

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

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00:39:23

0x3D: Conference Behavior Redux

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2013/05/28

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

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01:23:47

0x3C: FOSDEM 2013: How to Share a Trademark

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2013/05/07

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

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01:11:25

Episode 0x3B: FOSDEM 2013: Should We Embrace App Stores?

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2013/04/11

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

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01:24:33

Episode 0x3A: FOSDEM 2013: FOSS Code Goes In And...

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2013/04/03

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

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01:13:07

Episode 0x39: FOSDEM 2013: What is a Derivative Work...

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2013/03/26

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

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01:13:02

Episode 0x38: FOSDEM 2013: GPL Compliance Panel

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2013/03/19

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)

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01:01:15

Episode 0x37: Copyright Assignment Again

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2013/02/13

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

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00:39:57

Episode 0x36: RMS' Ubuntu Essay and Canonical, Ltd.'s...

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2012/12/18

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]

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00:32:38

Episode 0x35: Oracle vs. Google Copyright Decision

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2012/12/05

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

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00:33:48

Episode 0x34: Medical Devices Update

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2012/11/22

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

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01:13:39

Episode 0x33: Richard Fontana at LinuxCon North...

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2012/10/10

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

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01:05:28

Episode 0x32: Matthew Garrett on UEFI at LinuxCon...

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2012/09/27

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

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