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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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Episode 0x1D: Stefano Zacchiroli, Current DPL

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2011/11/29

Karen interviews Stefano Zacchiroli, who is the current Debian Project Leader. Karen and Bradley discuss their thoughts on that interview. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:36) Karen interviewed Stefano Zacchiroli, who is the current Debian Project Leader. (02:59) Segment 1 (03:58) Stefano was inspired by a professor at his university to get involved with Free Software, because you can study the sources. (04:50) DPL reelection is in April

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00:51:23

Episode 0x1C: Adam Dingle of Yorba

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2011/11/11

Karen interviews Adam Dingle of Yorba, and Bradley and Karen briefly discuss the interview. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:33) The interview is with Adam Dingle of Yorba. (02:30) Segment 1 (02:45) Yorba was founded in January 2009. (04:01) Yorba applied for 501(c)(3) status nearly two years ago and the application is still pending in the queue (the same delay queue we discussed in Episode 0x13. (28:30) Adam mentioned Yorba's donation

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00:31:47

Episode 0x1B: Two Executive Directors

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2011/10/25

Bradley and Karen discuss their jobs, particularly fundraising, and plans for future shows. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:36) The Google Summer of Code Program is large philanthropic program by Google for students to write Free Software in the summer. Bradley gave a talk about non-profit organizations at the Google SoC Mentor Summit 2011 Karen mentioned the GNOME Women's Outreach Program, which coordinates with the SoC, and the Season of KDE. (09:36)

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00:52:17

Episode 0x1A: Comments on Jobs

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2011/10/11

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

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00:48:46

Episode 0x19: GNOME 3.2 and Other Topics

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2011/09/28

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

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00:57:19

Episode 0x18: 12 Years of Compliance: A Historical...

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2011/09/13

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

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01:03:49

Episode 0x17: Contributor Agreements Considered Harmful

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2011/08/30

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

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00:53:53

Episode 0x16: Legal Basics for Developers

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2011/08/16

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)

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Episode 0x15: Karen Keynotes OSCON

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2011/08/02

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

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01:04:03

Episode 0x14: Free as in FOAM

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2011/07/19

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'

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00:39:49

Episode 0x13: Torts and 1023s

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2011/07/05

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

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00:54:31

Episode 0x12: Karen's New Job; Supreme Court on Patents

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2011/06/21

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.

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01:24:34

Episode 0x11: Corporate Licensing Decisions That...

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2011/06/07

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

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01:24:10

Episode 0x10: Linux License Violations

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2011/05/24

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 FaiF 0x10 Off-Topic Remix. Show Notes: Segment 0 (00:34) FaiF Producer Dan Lynch is filling in for Karen as co-host this week. (00:43) Karen got married on the day Dan and

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Episode 0x0F: Why Samba Switched to GPLv3

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2011/05/10

This episode is a recording of Jeremy Allison's talk, Why Samba Switched to GPLv3 from the 2011 Linux Collaboration Summit, with some commentary from Bradley and Karen on the talk. Show Notes: Ironically (or perhaps appropriately), Bradley was at Samba XP with Jeremy the day this show was released. So, there he wasn't able to get show notes together in detail for this show. However, Jeremy's slides from the talk are available (in PDF), and also ODP format.

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01:02:48

Episode 0x0E: Open Source Projects and Corporate...

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2011/04/26

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

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00:42:44

Episode 0x0D: NDAs

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2011/04/12

This episode is a recording of Karen's talk, Sign on the Dotted Line: NDAs and Free and Open Source Software from the 2011 Linux Collaboration Summit. Show Notes: Segment 1 (01:33) You can download a copy of Karen's slides from the talk if you'd like to follow along. Here's a listener donated transcription of one of the questions: [23:14] [indistinct] Signed up [indistinct] At Google you can opt out. Some of the people are You cannot actually [indistinct] [29:53] On

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00:43:18

Episode 0x0C: Disturbing Debates

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2011/03/29

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

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00:34:42

Episode 0x0B: Free Software Project Non-Profit Existence

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2011/03/15

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

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00:38:13

Episode: 0x0A: Windows Mobile Windows Phone 7 Series...

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2011/03/01

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

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