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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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00:45:39

Episode 0x31: GNU Mediagoblin

Free as in Freedom ·

2012/09/14

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

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00:56:31

Episode 0x30: GNOME Press Comments

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2012/08/28

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

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00:39:53

0x2F: OSCON and GUADEC 2012

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2012/08/15

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)

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00:59:30

Episode 0x2E: FOSDEM 2012: Linksvayer on Public...

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2012/07/17

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.

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00:42:22

0x2D: FSF's Restricted Boot Paper

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2012/07/05

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

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00:44:07

0x2C: FOSDEM 2012: Laurent's Open Licences before...

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2012/06/19

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

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00:48:12

0x2B: Deb Nicholson of OIN

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2012/06/05

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

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00:32:53

0x2A: Conservancy's Compliance Project

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2012/05/29

Karen and Bradley discuss Software Freedom Conservancy's announcement regarding its coordinated license compliance program. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:36) Karen and Bradley discuss Software Freedom Conservancy's announcement regarding its coordinated license compliance program. Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy

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01:19:27

0x29: Richard Fontana at Linux Collaboration Summit 2012

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2012/05/22

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

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00:56:01

0x28: FOSDEM 2012: Loic Dachary

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2012/05/08

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

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01:04:56

0x27: FOSDEM 2012: Randal's Legal Hygiene

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2012/04/25

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

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00:47:19

0x26: FOSDEM 2012: Meeks on Copyright Assignment

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2012/04/13

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

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00:48:59

0x25: FOSDEM 2012 Patents Panel

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2012/03/29

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

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00:47:28

0x24: App Store Panel

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2012/03/13

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

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00:56:19

0x23: Is Copyleft Being Framed?

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2012/02/28

Karen and Bradley play and discuss John Sullivan's talk entitled Is Copyleft Being Framed? from the FOSDEM 2012 Legal and Policy Issues DevRoom. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:34) Dave Neary wrote an article based on his FOSDEM talk, and we're trying our best to fix the audio and have a FaiFCast of his talk, but it may not be salvagable. Segment 1 (06:35) Follow along with John's slides from his FOSDEM talk. Segment 1 (37:23)

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00:44:44

0x22: Elder's Methods of FOSS Activism

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2012/02/14

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

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00:38:58

Episode 0x21: Inspirational Conference Talks

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2012/01/31

Bradley and Karen discuss Jacob Appelbaum's talk at Linux Conf Australia 2012, as well as other conference talks. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:35) Bradley spoke at SCALE, but the talk was very similar to the talk given on 0x18. (07:15) Karen's talk at LCA was a longer version of the talk from 0x15 she gave at OSCON. Listeners should write in if they want Karen's longer talk to be a show (07:30). Bradley will try to record some of the talks from the Legal

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00:47:17

Episode 0x20: Gender Inequality in Software Freedom...

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2012/01/17

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

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00:37:57

Episode 0x1F: Toward Better Legal Discussion Fora

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2012/01/08

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

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00:44:33

Episode 0x1E: Our Non-Profits Considered

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2011/12/16

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

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